Andy Warhol piece sells for $35m (£22.11m) at an auction in New York.
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12-Nov-2010 (one comment)

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).

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Imagine The Value of the Tehran Museum of Modern Arts Collection

by Darius Kadivar on Fri Nov 12, 2010 09:22 AM PST

Now Imagine what the Gems at the Tehran Museum of Modern Arts would amount to ?

THANK YOU SHAHBANOU !

Empress of the Arts By Darius KADIVAR

Recommended Readings:

FRAMING WARHOL! ... by DK

Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art By Robert Tait ( The Guardian)


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