An Andy Warhol canvas of a black-and-white Coke bottle has sold for $35.36m (£22.11m) at an auction in New York.
Sotheby’s said Coca-Cola [4] (Large Coca-Cola) “is a landmark in the artist’s creation of his pop art style”.
The artwork surpassed its original estimate of $25m (£15m).
On Monday, Warhol’s Men in Her Life, a multi-image depiction of actress Elizabeth Taylor, sold for $63.4m (£39.6m) at a Phillips auction.
The Sotheby’s auction saw 54 works go under the hammer and total sales amounted to $222.4 million (£139 million).
