Thursday, November 15, 2012

The World is Nuts! not sure which silkscreen was sold. I was not at the Auction




Marlon Brando on a motorcycle Sold at a Christie Auction yesterday for $23.7 million!

"another of the major lots, a 1981 Andy Warhol silkscreen of Marlon Brando on a motorcycle in The Wild One, saw a spirited 8 minutes of bidding that included Joseph Nahmad and, on the phone with a client, Christie’s Chairman Bret Gorvy, who at one point threw out a sheepish $100,000 over $20 million, a bid that elicited a disappointed look from Mr. Pylkkänen and laughter from the room. Mr. Gorvy continued to bid against the Nahmad family, who eventually bought the work for their collection at $23.7 million, with premium.

“It’s an absolutely iconic work,” said Joseph Nahmad after the sale. “It’s such a sexy pose.”

And a sexy investment! When the work came up at auction in 1997, at Sotheby’s New York, it sold for just $1.7 million, and when it did again in 2003 at Christie’s New York it went for $5 million."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Screen printed hey? Hmmm got a garage full of screen printed stuff. What's Christie's number?

TJ