At the auction of contemporary art Christie's November 12, exhibited two important works by Andy Warhol in 70 million dollars each

Who would you rather see at home — Elvis Presley or Marlon Brando? For only $ 140 million, they can both be yours. At Christie's sale November 12, exhibited two silkscreen Andy Warhol Triple Elvis 1963 and "Four Marlon" 1966 goda@

How said the head of the Department of postwar and contemporary art Christie's Brett Gorvi, 140 million total is the most modest estimates. Every job has a chance to reach almost 100 million dollars and possibly even break the record "Silver car crash", which was sold last November for the 104.5 million dollarov@

Both Warhol silkscreen come from the collection of the network WestSpiel casino, owned by the German government. In the late 1970s I acquired them for decoration. casino Swiss art dealer Thomas Ammann (Thomas Ammann). The company WestSpiel paid 85 thousand dollars for "Triple Elvis" and 100 thousand dollars for the work of "Four Marlon". A few decades they just decorated the interiors of the casino in Aachen. And only five years ago, company executives realized the value of silkscreen and hid them in hranilishe@

Years representatives WestSpiel Spud dealers and auction houses — was persuaded to sell the work of Warhol. The owners thought long and hard and finally decided to do it. Determination gave them a steady rise in the prices of the artist's work. In addition, the company plans to restructure and expansion. In addition to the six already existing gambling houses, will open another casino WestSpiel in Celine@

Both screen printing never exhibited at a public auction. The work of "Four Marlon" based on the advertising poster for the iconic 1953 film "the wild man" in which Marlon Brando played a brutal biker. At Christie's auction in November 2012 single portrait of Marlon Brando, based on the same photograph was sold for 23.7 million dollarov@

"Triple Elvis [Ferus type]" represents three overlapping each other image of the singer, taken from the 1960 film "Flaming star" ("Flaming Star"). Warhol often used the overlay to create the effect of motion pictures. The work made a strong impression during the first show at a solo exhibition of Warhol's Ferus gallery in Los Angeles in 1963 goda@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

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