Andy Warhol: One of art history's most expensive pop art artists

Andy Warhol: One of art history's most expensive pop art artists

Andy Warhol's 1964 portrait of Marilyn Monroe: "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" is estimated to be worth $200 million. How big a bid the auction house Christie's ends up getting we will find out in the month of May. The current auction record for Andy Warhol's art is $105.4 million, with Warhol's 1963 "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)" being sold at Sotheby's in 2013.

Warhol helped promote the pop art style that drew inspiration from the advertising world and started in the UK in the 1950s. One of Warhol's earliest works was the Campbell's Soup Can series, which was first exhibited in 1962. Warhol also got some inspiration from celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Elvis Presley, etc. In the 1960s you could buy a Warhol for 5,000 American dollars ($42,000 today). Warhol's works have thus only continuously increased in value.

Is $200 million too much for your budget?

Then we can offer a large selection of Andy Warhol lithographs / serigraphs. The very expensive Warhol works are with signature, and published by Warhol in a smaller edition. The Warhol works you find with us are without signature and published in a larger edition of e.g. Sunday B. Morning or the Carnegie Museum of Art. They are printed using the same method as Warhol: screen printing.