It became known who bought the "Coke bottle" by Andy Warhol
American website ARTINFO.com managed to find out who paid 35.4 million dollars for a Warhol painting" Big bottle of Coca- Coke "at Sotheby's 9noyabrya. The new owner of the work was none other than Steven Cohen (Steven Cohen) - founder of hedge fund SAC Capital Advisers, in 2004, bought for 8 million dollars "a shark in formaldehyde" by Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst).
Cohen did not attend the auction in the evening he and his wife Alexandra staged at his country estate in Greenwich, Conn., a reception for the Trustees of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Among the guests were megakollektsionery Eli Broad (Eli Broad) and Leon Black (Leon Black), as well as museum director Glenn Lowry (Glenn Lowry). At some point, Cohen was away almost half an hour. When he returned, he told the neighbors on the table: "I bought a bottle of Coke».
Last time on canvas "king of pop art, Sotheby's estimated at 20-25 million dollars, has appeared at auction in November 1983. Then a collector and curator Elizabeth Rea (Elizabeth Rea) bought it for 143,000 dollars.
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