Andy Warhol

We looked through Artnet's Price Database to find the 11 most expensive artworks by Andy Warhol ever sold at auction.

Want to stay ahead of the art world? Final Price: $195 million Final Price: $53 million After announcing the work in March, Christie’s mounted an impressive marketing campaign to drum up interest, including projecting the image on the facade of its Rockefeller Center headquarters. That record was previously held by Basquiat’s $110.5 million Untitled (1982), also sold in 2017. The painting, which carried an unpublished estimate of $200 million, went to Larry Gagosian, the very same art dealer who sold it to Thomas and Doris Ammann back in 1986.

A famous Andy Warhol silkscreen of Marilyn Monroe — "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn'' — was sold at auction for $170 million at Christie's in New York City Monday ...

The orange background sold for $17.3 million in 1998, then went to hedge fund manager Ken Griffin for a rumored $200 million-plus. The painting has a fascinating backstory. Warhol had held the record prior to Basquiat after his 1963 work“Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)” sold for $105.4 million in 2013.

The price was the highest ever at auction for an American artwork. The portrait was auctioned by Christie's in New York.

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Andy Warhol's 1964 portrait of Marilyn Monroe sold for $195 million at Christie's Monday night, becoming the most expensive work of American art ever sold.

The Marilyn, known as "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn," was one of five versions in different color schemes that Warhol painted in 1964, two years after Marilyn Monroe's death. Dealers say the sellers wanted to maximize the charitable proceeds, and guarantees typically require sellers to give up some of the price upside above the guaranteed amount. But the shooting added to their allure and became part of their titles. "It's the Mount Everest of its era," Fabricant said. The price suggests that the art market, at least at the very high end, is largely holding up to the pressures of falling stocks and rising interest rates. The buyer was not identified.

The painting logged the highest selling price for a work by an American artist, overtaking Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Untitled," 1982.

All proceeds from the sales will fund the foundation’s work investing in global healthcare initiatives for underprivileged children and young adults. The result—US$680,000 with fees—is an auction record for the artist. Much of the heated bidding during the evening took place for works priced at far lower values.

Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” sold for nearly double the previously most expensive of Warhol's works at auction.

Warhol created “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” in 1964—two years after Monroe’s sudden death—using a promotional photo from the actor’s 1953 film Niagara and gave the actress a pink face, blue eyeshadow and red lips against a sage background. That’s how much Leonardo da Vinci’s “ Salvator Mundi” sold for in 2017 to become the most expensive artwork to ever sold at auction. Andy Warhol has remained a pop culture icon more than three decades after his death in 1987.

NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Warhol's “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” sold for a cool $195 million on Monday, making the iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe the most ...

The foundation aims to help children with health care and educational programs. Christie’s said an unnamed buyer made the purchase Monday night. It’s also the most expensive piece from the 20th century ever auctioned, according to Christie’s auction house in New York, where the sale took place.

An iconic Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe has gone for $195 million, making it the most expensive work by a U.S. artist sold at auction.

The foundation aims to help children with health care and educational programs. It’s also the most expensive piece from the 20th century ever auctioned, according to Christie’s auction house in New York, where the sale took place. Christie’s said an unnamed buyer made the purchase Monday night.

Sale of "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" smashed the record for the most expensive work by a U.S. artist ever sold at auction. The previous mark was $110 million, ...

The foundation aims to help children with health care and educational programs. "It's an amazing price," said Alex Rotter, chairman of Christie's 20th and 21st century art department. Christie's said an unnamed buyer made the purchase Monday night.

Writer-director Andrew Rossi uses Andy Warhol's own words to offer insight into the artist's personal life for the Netflix docu-series.

“You can get so much more meaning from his paintings when you think of Andy as a queer figure, who is looking for his place in the world,” Rossi says. And there are still issues until this day of looking at the work in connection to this queer identity and this sidelining the work that is overtly about queer desire. The series uses Warhol’s own words — and a version of his voice, as he provides “narration” with the help of AI technology and readings from actor Bill Irwin — to offer a side of Warhol little seen (or heard) outside of his circle of collaborators, employees, superstars and hangers-on at the famed Factory in New York.

Jessica Beck, the Milton Fine curator of art at The Andy Warhol Museum on the North Side, said “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” is “an exceptional painting” partly ...

Warhol is shot in the summer of 1968 one month before Basquiat is hit by a car. “The Warhol Basquiat collaboration is so important for both of them. For Basquiat, he’s finally reaching the inner sanctum of the art world with exhibitions abroad and in New York, with people like Mary Boone. When he meets Warhol, he is already this hot, contemporary artist on the scene. “Warhol is white. Warhol died in 1987 and Basquiat in 1988. “It’s a healthy competition. Basquiat and Warhol began collaborating and competing in 1982. We see this in his commercial illustrations of the 1950s and 1960s for I. Miller and Glamour magazine. Jessica Beck, the Milton Fine curator of art at The Andy Warhol Museum on the North Side, said “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” is “an exceptional painting” partly because of when the Pittsburgh-born artist painted it. The yellow and the green just glow together.” The Andy Warhol Museum does not have an acquisition fund to buy artwork. By 1964, Warhol is refining his silkscreen process,” Beck said Tuesday.

Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' made double history last night as the most costly painting ever sold by a US artist.

Speaking on behalf of the judges, Jenny Waldman, Director, Art Fund, said, “An abundance of applications to be Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022 shows the creativity and resilience of museums right around the country, despite the immense challenges of the last two years. Art Fund annually shortlists five outstanding museums for the Museum of the Year prize. The judges will visit each of the finalists to help inform their decision-making.

Unlike the Christie's retread, the Pop Master's 1962 “Green Marilyn” was crudely silk-screened, with blotches that convey the decay of a fallen star.

The 1964 Marilyns were also offered in multiple hues, but they had none of the messes that had added a hint of decay to Warhol’s first Marilyns, making them look handmade and heartfelt. As “mere” repetitions of the 1962 works, the retreads invoked the replication that powers consumer culture. He and his assistants referred to the 1964 retreads as “Dead Paintings.” (In addition to the Marilyns, Warhol was being paid to repeat the Campbell’s Soup paintings that had first won him attention in 1961.) But Warhol’s move toward repetition made a kind of sense, artistically: How better to talk about popular culture and its commodification than by letting your art plunge right inside? You could say that in 1964, with the viewer-friendly repeats of his Marilyns, Warhol was embracing the movement’s new popularity, making works that were not just Pop Art but also truly popular art. If I were a collector — in 1964, or 2022 — I’d certainly prefer to have one of those over my sofa than one of the sad, tough versions from 1962. The original Marilyns from 1962 had been strange, distressed images, crudely silk-screened to leave blotches and blank spots that convey the decay and distress of the fallen movie star — it’s said Warhol conceived them right after Marilyn’s death, though there’s reason to believe that’s a myth.

One of Andy Warhol's portraits of Marilyn Monroe is now the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever sold at auction.

"This sale demonstrates the pervasive power of Andy Warhol as well as the lasting legacy that he continues to leave behind in the art world, popular culture, and society." "The record-breaking sale of Warhol's iconic portrait of Marilyn from the Collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann is a testament to the strength, the vibrancy, and the overall excitement of the art market today," Rotter said. As expected, an iconic Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe has set a new record, becoming the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever sold at an auction.

At 77, the mega-art dealer known as Go-Go shows no signs of stopping.

And in a full circle worth of Jasper Johns, Gagosian once sold the very Marilyn portrait he bought this week. When asked about his future plans by WSJ a few years ago, he laughed and declared: “Gagosian is going to go on forever!” Noted Basquiat fan Jay-Z even name-dropped the dealer in a 2010 song with Kanye West— “Call Larry Gagosian, you belong in museums.” He began in the 1970s by selling poster prints of ocean views out of a parking lot in Los Angeles for $20 apiece, before influential New York art dealer Leo Castelli took him under his wing. An art world titan for decades, Gagosian has 19 eponymous galleries from New York to Hong Kong, and is widely believed to surpass nine figures in annual sales. Like Warhol and Monroe, the buyer, art dealer Larry Gagosian, is also a familiar face.

Andy Warhol's iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe was sold on Monday at Christie's auction house in New York for a record-setting $195 million.

“Tonight was a historic night for Christie’s and for the entire contemporary art market,” Rotter said. Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” one of several iconic images the legendary artist made of Monroe in the 1960s, sold for $195 million at Christie’s in New York. The piece is now the most expensive work by a U.S. artist that has been ever sold at an auction, according to TIME. Christie’s was expecting to get bids “in the region of” $200 million for the piece, CNN reports. Andy Warhol’s iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe was sold on Monday for a record-setting price.

Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' has sold for $195 million at a Christie's auction in New York. This comes as art is still seen as a store of value ...

Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' (1964) sold for $195 million at Christie's in New York to art dealer Larry Gagosian.

It derives from his “Shot Marilyn” portrait series, which Warhol produced after an incident at his downtown studio when he prompted a collaborator, Dorothy Podber, to shoot into a stack of canvases. The hammer price was $30 million below the $200 million estimate upon request that Christie’s had given it ahead of the auction. The result makes it the most expensive work by a 20th-century artist ever to be sold at auction.

NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Warhol's “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” sold for a cool $195 million on Monday, making the iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe the most ...

The foundation aims to help children with health care and educational programs. Christie’s said an unnamed buyer made the purchase Monday night. It’s also the most expensive piece from the 20th century ever auctioned, according to Christie’s auction house in New York, where the sale took place.

He was a major figure in the pop art movement. His works, which include painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture, look at the relationship ...

Andy Warhol was an American artist who, after inflation and the value of his work, had a net worth of $220 million when he died. Paige Powell, Warhol’s friend, and Interview’s advertising director threw an Interview T-shirt and a bottle of Estée Lauder’s “Beautiful” into the grave before the coffin was lowered. Doctors assumed Warhol would survive the procedure until he died. Fans of Andy Warhol’s work and people who like art won’t be surprised that many of his works have sold for millions of dollars at auction. They stated improper care and too much water caused the arrhythmia. He was 58. He was a major figure in the pop art movement. Both Richardson and Ono talked. Warhol came to New York City after graduation and worked in advertising and magazine art. His father died when he was 13. His art is still being auctioned off. Warhol died at 6:32 a.m. on Feb. 22, 1987.

Shot Sage Blue Marilyn sold in New York for $195 million, the most expensive 20th century artwork ever sold at auction.

It was one of 35 items up for sale from the collection of art dealers Thomas Ammann, who died in 1993, and his sister Doris Ammann, who died in 2021. The most expensive artwork ever, meanwhile, is currently Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, which fetched $450.3 million at auction in 2017. The famous painting titled Shot Sage Blue Marilyn was sold in New York for $195 million on Monday.