"Alex Rotter, administrator of Christie’s 20th and 21st aeon art departments, said during a account arrangement about the bargain at the firm’s New York address on Monday.
“Andy Warhol’s Marilyn is the complete acme of American Pop and the affiance of the American Dream encapsulating optimism, fragility, celebrity, and iconography all at once,” he said.
“Standing alongside Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Warhol’s Marilyn is actually one of the greatest paintings of all time.”
Warhol corrective aloof a few portraits of Monroe application a complicated awning press address that was clashing the accumulation assembly techniques he was best accepted for, according to Christie’s.
They anniversary were corrective on a accomplishments of altered colors, including red, orange, blue, academician blue, and turquoise. Warhol corrective the Hollywood fable afterward her afterlife in 1962, aggressive by a promotional photo for the 1953 blur Niagara by Henry Hathaway.
Shot Academician Dejected Marilyn, depicts a albino Monroe cutting academician dejected eyeshadow, analogous the accomplishments color.
It was acquired by the backward Thomas Ammann, a Swiss gallerist and architect of Thomas Ammann Fine Art, in the aboriginal 1980s for an bearding bulk through a clandestine sale, according to Rotter.
Ammann died in 1993. His sister, Doris, ran the arcade until she anesthetized abroad aftermost year. The Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation was afresh accustomed in account of them.
