There are other assets that are bringing prices that you haven’t seen before.” “The top of the market is still strong and there is a lot of demand for quality,” the art dealer Bill Acquavella said. After Thomas Ammann’s death in 1993, his sister continued to lead the gallery. In 1977, the Ammann siblings founded a Zurich gallery that specialized in Impressionist, Modern, postwar and contemporary artists. The purchase is not considered a charitable donation, so it does not come with a tax deduction, Christie’s said. The buyer of the “Marilyn” will have a say in choosing to which charity 20 percent of the proceeds from that painting are allocated.
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A Musical: “Andy,” Gus Van Sant’s Warhol-inspired stage debut, may be the movie director’s oddest tribute to date. A Book: “Warhol” by Blake Gopnik, the first true biography of the artist, reveals a narrative that gets more complex the more closely you look. A Play: In “The Collaboration,” Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope give memorable performances as Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Warhol-mania: If Andy Warhol seems particularly ubiquitous right now, that’s because he is: onscreen, in museums and in the streets. While Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” is the most expensive American artwork to ever sell at an auction, the overall record goes to Leonardo da Vinci’s “ Salvator Mundi” painting, which sold for $450 million in 2017, Axios reported.The Enduring Legacy of Andy Warhol The artist’s cultural prominence has hardly diminished in the decades since his death in 1987. What is the most a painting has ever sold for? The turquoise one was the only painting not in the stack and avoided damage, while the other paintings received repairs, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Thinking Podber was referring to a camera, Warhol obliged and was shocked when Podber fired a gun at the portraits. The paintings grew in popularity when, not long after they were completed, performance artist Dorothy Podber entered Warhol’s Factory studio and asked the artist if she could shoot them. And Warhol himself was beginning to become an icon. “Everyone in the world when these paintings were made knew the story of Marilyn Monroe, the epic loss and the epic achievement. “It’s the Mount Everest of its era,” art dealer Andrew Fabricant told CNBC. The idea for the different colored portraits stemmed from a promotional photograph Monroe used for the 1953 film “Niagara.” Warhol created “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” two years after the actress’ death - one of five versions he created in 1964, CNBC reported. “It’s an amazing price,” said Alex Rotter, chairman of Christie’s 20th and 21st century art department, per The Associated Press. 
It’s one of the icons of 20th-century art.” “It was an incredibly healthy price, but at the same time I believe the buyer got a deal. “Expectation was very, very, very high,” art adviser Abigail Asher told The New York Times.
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