Andy Warhol´s 1964 silkscreen portrait of Marily Monroe sold for a record-setting $195 million durin an aution at Christie´s in New York, setting a record for the Pop artist. The winning bid for the work went to mega-dealer Larry Gagosian. The painting, "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" (1964) depicts a press photo of the actress from the 1953 noir film "Niagara". The work derives from Warhol´s "Shot Marilyn" portrait series, which he produced after an incident at his downtown studio when he prompted a collaborator, Dorothy Podber, to shoot into a stack of canvases. The result for this 1964 work almost doubled the Pop artist's previous auction record of $105.4 million, set when his 1963 canvas "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)" sold at Sotheby´s in 2013. With the sales, Christie´s also rode a double-pronged pop culture wave of renewed interest in both Warhol and Monroe, including a new six-part Netflix documentary series "The Andy Warhol Diaries" and Kim Kardashian donning Monroe´s 1962 custom-made nud gown, which the star infamously wore when she sang a brethy "Happy Birthday" to John F. Kennedy, to the Met Gala. Source: ARTnews