A 1964 portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe by American artist Andy Warhol, known as a leading figure in the pop art movement, sold for $195 million at Christie’s on Monday night, becoming the most expensive piece of American art ever and the most a 20th-century work has fetched at a public auction.
The painting ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ is one in a series of five portraits Warhol made of Monroe after her death in 1962, using a promotional photo of the actress and applying different color schemes.