Tag: Alex Rother
Opportunities for rich and somewhat thrifty collectors
new York The motif should be known to almost everyone, it adorns countless posters in student shacks. René Magritte’s “L’Empire des Lumières” from 1951, painted in seventeen variants, is one…
Warhol’s “Marilyn” portrait costs $195 million
Andy Warhol “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” For the 1964 portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe, Christie’s achieved a record price of 195 million dollars. (Photo: Ted Shaffrey/AP/dpa) Dusseldorf/New York The radiantly…