Picasso

The silkscreen painting has sold at auction for $195 million, surpassing the previous world record held by Pablo Picasso. The spring auction season started Monday in New York in style. Oblivious to wars, economic turmoil and the scourge of the pandemic, the art market has set another record for the work of a 20th-century artist, with Andy Warhol’s Marilyn selling for $195 million (specifically, 195,040,000 including taxes and fees). This is not only the highest-ever price paid for the work of an American artist, it also sets the world record for the most expensive 20th-century work of art – a title previously held by Pablo Picasso’s Women of Algiers (1955), which sold at auction for $179.5 million in 2015.