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"Marilyn" fetches $27.6m on record day for Warhol

Nearly £200 million of art went under the hammer at Christie's in New York with an Andy Warhol painting of a car crash selling for a record £36.04 million while a portrait of Marilyn Monroe fetched £14m. The highest post-war and contemporary art sale in history saw 26 world auction records set.

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Art price records shattered

May 2007

Records were shattered at Sotheby's $255 million auction of contemporary and postwar art.

May 2007

Hedge-fund managers canvass the art market

They've become big collectors, but their efforts are not universally welcome.

May 2007

Catalog of Christie's auction

Details from a Christie's auction featuring artists of the Sao Paulo 9 Exbiition

May 2007

Warhol car crashes sales barrier

A new record was set for work by Andy Warhol when a painting of a car crash sold for $71.7m (£36.3m) in New York.

May 2007

$250 Warhol Marilyn 'will fetch $15 million'

Gentlemen really do prefer blondes.

August 2006

Local artist's works confiscated

334 Paintings Seized