Andy Warhol’s famous Marilyn Monroe painting, currently set to auction at Christie’s, has the opportunity to break sales records. Analysts project the piece of art could be sold for $200 million or more.
The record holder of the most expensive auctioned 20th century piece belongs to Picasso, whose work entitled Women of Algiers sold for $179.4 million in 2015.
Warhol’s auction record was set in 2013 when his work Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) sold for $105.4 million at Sotheby’s.
If the Monroe portrait reaches its projected sales, it would make history as the second highest-grossing art sale in history next to Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi-which sold for $450 million.
According to an article written by Tiffany Ap at Quartz, Christie’s chairman-Alex Rotter-described Warhol’s Monroe portrait as “categorically one of the greatest paintings of all time” and said it is as significant as Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.
