A bottle of coke from Warhol for 60 million
Large-scale painting by Andy Warhol, "Coca-Cola (3)" can generate up to 60 million us dollars at auction of contemporary and postwar art Christie's on November 12
Top lot of the evening auction of contemporary and postwar art Christie's on November 12 will be a large-scale canvas of Andy Warhol's "Coca-Cola (3)" in 1962. Unlike the later silk-screen printing, this huge bottle of coke written by Warhol manually on canvas height in human growth. The work is estimated at 40-60 million dollars. The last time the work in this series — "Coca-Cola (4)" — appeared at auction in 2010, where 35.4 million dollars it was purchased by Stephen Koen@
"If you want to understand what is pop art, here he is, — says the Chairman of the Department of postwar and contemporary art Christie's Brett Gorvi. — I've got two icons in one: Coca-Cola and Andy Warhol".
Work exposes for sale-Mughrabi family, which acquired the "Coca-Cola (3)" in 1995, the billionaire Samuel Irving (si) Newhouse (Samuel Irving (Si) Newhouse).
in Addition to the work of Warhol, to top lots of the auction Christie's on November 12 include sculpture by Jeff Koons "Dog balloon" from the collection of Peter Brant, as well as work by Gerhard Richter from the collection of Eric Clapton@
Sources: bloomberg.com, artinvestment.ru
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