A monumental and iconic canvas by Andy Warhol in the 1960s, white mess“, was sold for 85 million dollars at auction on Wednesday night at Sotheby’s in New York, below the record for the American artist.
It took two minutes and a brief duel between two representatives of the auction house, who took their orders by phone, to award this 1963 work, at $74 million at auction. Or $85,350,500 with expenses, while Sotheby’s estimated it at more than $80 million.
19 times in black and white the same image
The master of pop art, who died in 1987, became a star of auctions and, for the last time, a monumental canvas from this series, known as the Death and Disaster Seriesit had been sold in 2013, it had set a new record for the artist, with $105 million at Sotheby’s.
Since then, a portrait of Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Blue Salvia Shot (1962), was auctioned in early May at Christie’s, still in New York, for $195 million, becoming the most expensive 20th-century work ever sold at auction.
From his full name “White Disaster [White Car Crash 19 Times]”, the canvas sold on Wednesday night, made in serigraphic ink and graphite, represents 19 times in black and white the same image of a macabre car accident, with a scene sometimes dazzled, as if in the light of a 3 flash, 6 meters high.
Source: BFM TV
