Roy Lichtenstein painting fetches $42.6m at auction
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12-Nov-2010 (one comment)

A painting by Roy Lichtenstein has sold at auction for $42.6m (£26.4m) - a new record for the US 'pop artist'.

The cartoon-style painting, sold to an anonymous telephone bidder at Christie's in New York, features a woman on the phone with a speech bubble containing the title.

The sale of contemporary and post-war works fetched $272.8m (£169.1m) in all.

Yet an Andy Warhol piece expected to fetch up to $50m (£31m) went for less than half that amount.

Big Campbell's Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable) was sold for $23.9m (£14.8m) at Wednesday's auction.

On Tuesday, a Warhol canvas of a black-and-white Coke bottle sold for $35.4m (£21.9m) at rival New York auction house Sotheby's.

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Imagine The Value of the Tehran Museum of Modern Arts Collection

by Darius Kadivar on Fri Nov 12, 2010 09:21 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

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FRAMING WARHOL! ... by DK

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


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