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Record-breaking painting: Warhol's Marilyn is the most expensive 20th century work ever

It is a Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol that is themost expensive artwork of the 20th century: Shot Sage Blue Marilyn was in fact sold at auction by Christie 's for a record price of $195 million, or 184 million euros. Estimated at up to $200 million, ...
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Frida Kahlo's record-breaking first self-portrait sold at auction at Sotheby's

For the first time, a work by a Latin American artist has been sold at auction for a record sum: it is Diego y yo, a painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, which was sold at Sotheby 's for the sum of nearly $35 million, $34,883,000 to be exact. Est...
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