An anonymous bidder bought the 1963 portrait, called Liz, which had been expected to fetch more than $25m (£11.9m) at Christie’s.The auction house refused to confirm reports that it was British actor Hugh Grant who sold the portrait after he bought it in 2001 for $15m (£7.2m).
Warhol created 12 portraits of the actress as she recovered from illness. “I started those a long time ago when she was so sick and everybody said she was going to die,” the artist said at the time.
“Now I am doing them all over, putting bright colours on her lips and eyes.”
OK Andy, so basically what your saying is, your going to paint more Elizabeth Taylor paintings because she is on her death bed…..again. So you sit around, waiting for people to bite-it, then paint pictures of them and notify Christies that they should prep an auction. Wow, morbidly amazing.
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