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The portrait of Marilyn Monroe will be sold for a record price

The portrait of Marilyn Monroe will be sold for a record price

One of Andy Warhol's iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe, known as "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn", could become the most expensive 20th-century work of art to be auctioned off for $ 200 million. from Christie's auction house in New York.

Made using a technique called silkscreen printing, which copies images onto paper or canvas using a thin mesh silk layer as a template, the portrait was made in 1962, shortly after Monroe's death.

The portrait of Marilyn Monroe will be sold for a record price
American pop artist Andy Warhol photographed in his New York studio in 1983.

The current record for the most expensive painting sold from the 20th century is $ 179.4 million for Pablo Picasso's "Les Femmes d'Alger" in 2015. Meanwhile, the current auction record for a Warhol work is held by Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster), which describes the aftermath of a road crash and sold for more than $ 105 million nearly a decade ago.