Andy Warhol's “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn”

 Andy Warhol's “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” sold for a cool $195 million on Monday, making the iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe the most expensive work by a U.S. artist ever sold at auction.

The 1964 silkscreen image shows Monroe in vibrant close-up — hair yellow, eyeshadow blue and lips red — on a rich blue background. It's also the most expensive piece from the 20th century ever auctioned, according to Christie’s auction house in New York, where the sale took place.

The Warhol sale unseated the previous record holder and another modern master, Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose 1982 painting “Untitled” of a skull-like face sold for a record $110.5 million at Sotheby’s in 2017.

Christie's said an unnamed buyer made the purchase Monday night. When the auction was announced earlier this year, they estimated it could go for as much as $200 million.

“It’s an amazing price,” said Alex Rotter, chairman of Christie’s 20th and 21st century art department. “Let it sink in, it’s quite something.”

“This is where we wanted to be, clearly,” said Guillaume Cerutti, CEO of Christie’s. “It proves we are in a very resilient art market.”

The proceeds of the sale will go to the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation Zurich, which put the painting up for auction. The foundation aims to help children with health care and educational programs.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/andy-warhols-shot-sage-blue-marilyn-sells-for-195m-at-ny-auction-most-for-a-u-s-artist/3679452/

 

 Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2021) by the time of her death in 1962.^[3] Long after her death, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture.^[4] In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her sixth on their list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Thomas Ammann

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thomas Ammann (1950–1993) Swiss art dealer & collector

Thomas E. Ammann (1950 – 9 June 1993) was a leading Swiss art dealer in Impressionist and twentieth century art, and a collector of post-war and contemporary art.^[1

Born 1950 in Ermatingen, Switzerland, as the youngest of four children (Eveline, Doris, Susan), Ammann became an art collector while still a teenager. Aged 18 he went to work at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich. It was during this time of apprenticeship that Ammann first met^[2] Andy Warhol who would become a close friend. In 1977 Ammann went into business for himself. His combination of knowledge, eye for quality, charm, humor, looks^[3], and discretion took him to the top of the art world by his mid 30s^[4] (Skis with Valentino, dines with Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor ... lives on the Concorde. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1988.^[5]

Ammann died on 9 June 1993, prematurely at the age of 43 of an AIDS related illness at the Bircher-Benner Clinic in Zurich.^[6] A memorial service was held at the Church of St. Peter in Zurich ^[7] and subsequently at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City on 18 November 1993, with speakers Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Thomas Krens, William H. Luers, Ernst Beyeler, Robert Wilson (director), Bob Colacello, Bianca Jagger and artists Ross Bleckner, Francesco Clemente, and Eric Fischl.^{[citation needed][8]}

It was in 1977 that Ammann envisioned a catalogue raisonné^[27] of all of Andy Warhol's paintings, sculptures and drawings, and with the artist's consent, started the vast undertaking of assembling the material needed for such a project to finally create a comprehensive, scholarly and authoritative publication. The initial volumes were eventually published in 2002 and 2004 by Phaidon Press in a joint effort of Thomas Ammann Fine Art and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, New York.^{[citation needed]}

Doris Ammann, Influential Swiss Art Dealer, Has Died

March 24, 2021 10:44am 

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/doris-ammann-dead-swiss-dealer-1234587478/

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