By Janet Ekstract
İSTANBUL-History was made in the art world over the weekend, with a record-breaking Andy Warhol sale of his silkscreen print “Shot in Blue Sage” of Marilyn Monroe that was snapped up at Sotheby’s auction in four minutes for $195 million to an undisclosed buyer.
The New York Times reported this sale breaks the record with the priciest sale previously made of a Jean-Michel Basquiat for an estimated $110 million. Warhol’s work is particularly interesting since a majority of the silkscreen prints he created were left unsigned. Despite this, the true signature of Warhol’s art were his subjects who he often created in serial form, in dramatic, varying tones..
