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Andy Warhol’s iconic powder blue and hot pink portrait of Marilyn Monroe has sold for $195 million, becoming one of the world’s most expensive oeuvres.

Christie’s New York auction house announced the sale of "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn," Monday afternoon, one of five silk-screen printed Monroe portraits Warhol made in the aftermath of her 1962 overdose.

“I realized that everything I was doing must have been Death,” Warhol said , describing those prints, and others he made around that time. At his infamous East 47th Street studio, known as the Factory, performance artist Dorothy Podber pulled out a gun and shot the canvases several months after Warhol printed them, piercing four of five Monroe portraits — hence how they got their nickname, the "Shot Marilyns."

Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Willem de Kooning, Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin among others fetched more than $195 million over the years, but the “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” now represents the most expensive 20th Century artwork to sell at an auction, according to Christie’s.


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