Warhol’s famed Marilyn Monroe portrait sells for record price at auction

Andy Warhol’s famed 1964 silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe has sold for $195 million at auction, setting a new a record for a work by an American artist.

Report informs, citing The Guardian, that Shot Sage Blue Marilyn is one in a series of portraits Warhol made of the actress following her death in 1962 and has since become one of pop art’s best-known pieces.

Held in the collection of Swiss art dealers Thomas and Doris Ammann, it was sold by Christie’s at an auction in New York on Monday. Pre-sale estimates had reached as high as $200 million.