The Andy Warhol self-portrait from 1963-64. (click on image to enlarge).
FOUR photo booth images of Andy Warhol in blue
The re-discovered Rothko from a private collection. (click on image to enlarge)
made a record $38.4 million over a high estimate of $30 million at Christie’s post-war and contemporary sale in New York on May 11.
The sale total of $301,683,000 was the biggest tally for a New York evening contemporary sale since May 2008. No less than 62 of the 65 lots on offer found buyers. There were records for Cy Twombly and Richard Diebenkorn while a Cindy Sherman at $3.9 million fetched the highest price ever for a photograph at auction.
The photo-booth style Warhol Self-Portrait, 1963-64 was the top lot and a new record for a Warhol self portrait. At the same sale Warhol’s 1986 self portrait – the one with spiky hair – made $27,522,500.
A re-discovered Mark Rothko work, Untitled No. 17, signed and dated 1961, made $33,682,500.