Sale to feature Warhol’s images of Monroe, Mao
New York City ? Marilyn and Mao, together at last.
Art lovers soon can bid on Andy Warhol’s iconic images of Marilyn Monroe and Mao Zedong – that is, if they have a spare $27 million or so.
A week after modern and Impressionist paintings went for a staggering $800 million at auction houses in New York comes Christie’s sale Wednesday of postwar and contemporary art.
One headliner is Warhol’s 81-inch-by-61-inch silkscreen portrait of the late Chinese leader Mao, produced in 1971 when China and the U.S. were renewing relations. It’s expected to command at least $12 million.
Warhol’s “Orange Marilyn,” a 1962 synthetic polymer and silkscreen of Monroe, is expected to fetch up to $15 million.
Also up for bids are Jackson Pollock’s “Number 21” and Roy Lichtenstein’s “Yellow and White Brushstrokes.”