Andy Warhol's silkscreen Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) set new records at Christie's auction on Monday 9 May, selling for USD 179.4 million—now the most expensive work by an American artist to be sold at auction, which was previously achieved by Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 Untitled skull painting.
We were also watching Franz West's sculpture Untitled (Lemur Pink) (2008), which achieved USD 592,200, as well as Robert Ryman's equally textured abstract painting from 1961, which realised USD 3,900,000.
