Community | November 12, 2009 | 1 comment

Warhol work sells for $43 million

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Andy Warhol artwork 200 One Dollar Bills has sold in New York for $43.8m (£26.5m) - the second highest auction price for a work by the pop artist.

The 1962 silk screen print, which shows 200 life-sized images of dollar bills, had a pre-sale estimate of $8m to $12m (£4.8m to £7.3m) at Sotheby's.

The contemporary sale fetched $134.4m (£81.3m) with 52 out of 54 lots sold.

Warhol's 1963 painting Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) sold for a record $71.7m (£43.4m) in 2007.

And someone said there was a recession on!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8357342.stm
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1 comment // Warhol work sells for $43 million

  • JClem
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      JClem  
    • Thats just plain stupid. Surely anyone can see that the maximum value of that picture is $200? It seems strange that people are still paying silly money for art in th current climate, I guess some people think that they're still a good investment...

    • 2 years ago
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