Who shot Shot Sage Blue Marilyn?

Andy Warhol’s silkscreen image, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, was sold for $195m in auction house Christie’s in New York on May 9, 2022. The work was created in 1964, along with red, orange, blue, and turquoise versions. It gained the highest price for any American work of art at auction and became the most expensive painting of the 20th century._x000D_

Whose records did Warhol’s Blue Sage Marlyn break?

_x000D_So far, the most costly 20th-century painting sold at auction was Les femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’) by Picasso, which fetched $179m in May 2015 at Christie’s New York. The previous most expensive American art piece ever sold at auction was Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1981 skull painting – which sold for an astounding $110.4 million in 2017._x000D_

Who shot Marilyn?

_x000D_Performance artist Dorothy Podber, who saw the paintings stacked against one another in Warhol’s studio, pierced four pieces in the Shot Marilyns series with a single bullet. The fifth painting with the turquoise background was not in the stack and escaped damage.