Warhol's Marilyn & the Art Market

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TOP 5 WARHOL PRICES (INCLUDING AUCTION & PRIVATE SALES) #1

#2

#3

$240m

$105,445,000

$100m

Orange Marilyn, 1964 SALE DATE :

2017

PRIVATE SALE

Silver car crash (Double disaster), 1963

#4

#5

$81,925,000

$71,720,000

Triple Elvis (Ferus Type), 1963

Green car crash (Green burning car I), 1963

Eight Elvises, 1963 SALE DATE :

SALE DATE :

November 13, 2013 [Lot 00016] HOUSE : Sotheby’s New York

2008

PRIVATE SALE

SALE DATE:

November 12, 2014 [Lot 00009]

SALE DATE : May 16, 2007 [Lot 00015] HOUSE : Christie’s New York

HOUSE:

Christie’s New York

NOT AS MANY AS YOU THINK: WARHOLS ARE SCARCER THAN WE IMAGINE Two decades leading the Contemporary art market has created a false sense of Warhol’s abundance. The estate has sold everything and some of the biggest suppliers of Warhols are out of the market. Here are a few of the popular series and the number of paintings that actually exist.

FLOWERS

3165

492

PORTR AITS

DEATH & DISASTER

168

JACKIE

306

SELFPORTR AITS

97

MARILYN

40

LIZ

50 ELVIS

39

ANDY WARHOL Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was a commercial artist and illustrator whose success allowed him the freedom to pursue ideas about art, celebrity, mass media and culture that placed him at the center of American Modernism at its height in the 1960s. His most original paintings, prints and sculptures were

produced in the period between 1961 and when he was shot in 1968. The next year, Warhol founded Interview magazine and for the remaining 19 years of his life, Warhol became a beneficiary—and an object—of his own fetishization of fame. He died in 1987 from complications arising during gallbladder surgery.


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