Why Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroes are fetching such staggering prices
Christie’s is auctioning ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ with a $266 million estimate, declaring it on par with the Mona Lisa, even though it is one in a set of five.
Amid the world’s problems, the top echelon of the art market is doing just fine, judging by the news last week that an Andy Warhol silkscreen of Marilyn Monroe will be auctioned in New York in May at an estimate of $US200 million ($266 million).
Shot Sage Blue Marilyn stands alongside Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa as “one of the greatest paintings of all time”, Christie’s declared ambitiously.
