A colossal image from Warhol's 'Death and Disaster' series fetched $85.4 million at Sotheby's in New York, a sum the auction house described as 'monumental.'
This article was updated with the final sale price and other details following the auction's conclusion.
"White Disaster ," a colossal image from the artist's"Death and Disaster" series, fetched $85.4 million at Sotheby's in New York, a sum the auction houseAt the time Warhol created the work in 1963, he had become transfixed with gruesome and morbid images — atomic bomb clouds, electric chairs — and how widely print publications reproduced them, believing that readers had become immune to their impact.
"These ideas of celebrity, tragedy, fame, death — these are the themes that occupied Warhol and I think that the series he was working on simultaneously, the Marilyn paintings and the"Death and Disaster paintings, are intricately linked," Galperin said.Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Imagesrecord-breaking $105.4 million
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