Andy Warhol – Moonwalk (1987)
Moonwalk by Andy Warhol, a screenprint in a unique colour configuration, was the top lot at de Veres sale of outstanding art in Dublin on May 26. The Moonwalk prints are among the last works that the artist created before his death in February 1987. It made a hammer price of €190,000. Other top hammer prices were as follows: Roderic O’Conor – Breton Farmstead with Haystacks (€155,000), Paul Henry – Evening on the Upper Lake, Killarney (€115,000), Jack Butler Yeats – Dusty Lane, Co. Kerry (€95,000), William John Leech – Cemetery of St. Jeannet (€75,000), Sir John Lavery – Schooling the Pony (€70,000) and Mary Swanzy – Cubist Trees (€70,000).