How much is Andy Warhol worth?
| Net Worth: | $50 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Visual artist |
| Date of Birth: | 6 August 1928 |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 1.8 m |
About Andy Warhol
In the spring of 1964, Warhol held his second exhibition at the Stable Gallery. This show featured sculptures of commercial boxes stacked and scattered across the space to give the impression that the room was a warehouse. Warhol had special wooden boxes made and had designs silkscreened onto them for the exhibition that he was curating. The prices for the sculptures ranged from $200 to $400 per piece, depending on the size of the respective boxes (Brillo Box, Del Monte Peach Box, Heinz Tomato Ketchup Box, Kellogg’s Cornflakes Box, Campbell’s Tomato Juice Box, and Mott’s Apple Juice Box).
On August 6, 1928, Warhol was born in the city of Pittsburgh, in the state of Pennsylvania. He was the fourth child born to Ondrej Warhola, who was known in the United States as Andrew Warhola Sr. and Julia (née Zavacká) whose first child was born in their home country of Austria-Hungary but passed away before to their emigration to the United States.
Plain white with a red Campbell’s soup can was the pattern that Warhol chose for the paper shopping bag that he sold for $12. His painting of a can of Campbell’s soup cost $1,500, while each autographed can sold for $38, $6.50 apiece. The picture was on a can, and the soup was Campbell’s. The exhibition was one of the first major events that directly confronted the general public with pop art as well as the age-old topic of what art is. It was one of the first exhibits to be held at a museum.
Orange Marilyn (1964), an Andy Warhol painting that depicts Marilyn Monroe, was sold for $17.3 million in 1998, which at the time was a record for the highest price paid for a Warhol artwork. The painting was created in 1964.
At Christie’s in 2007, a painting that Andy Warhol created of Elizabeth Taylor in 1963 and titled “Liz (Colored Liz)” fetched a price of $23.7 million. The painting had previously been held by actor Hugh Grant.
At Christie’s post-war and contemporary art auction in May 2007, Green Car Crash (1963) sold for $71.1 million, while Lemon Marilyn (1962) sold for $28 million. Both of these works were created in the 1960s. Eight Elvises (1963), which was owned by Annibale Berlingieri, was sold to a private buyer in 2008 for the price of one hundred million dollars.
At an auction held by Sotheby’s in May of 2012, the price for Double Elvis (Ferus Type) was set at $37 million. At Christie’s, the sale of the Triple Elvis (Ferus Type) took place in November of 2014. The final price was $81.9 million.
At Christie’s in May of 2011, Andy Warhol’s first self-portrait, which was created between 1963 and 1964, sold for $38.4 million, while a red self-portrait that was created in 1986 sold for $27.5 million. In May of 2011, Liz #5, also known as Early Colored Liz, was sold at Phillips for a price of $26.9 million. At Christie’s in May of 2014, the painting “White Marilyn” (1962) sold for $41 million.
At Christie’s in November of 2014, the painting titled Four Marlons (1964), which features Marlon Brando, was sold for $69.6 million. Silver Liz (diptych), which was painted in 1963, went for $28 million at Christie’s in May of 2015, while Colored Mona Lisa (1963) sold for $56.2 million. Both paintings were created in 1963. At Christie’s in May 2022, the artwork known as Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) fetched a price of $195 million, making it the most expensive piece of American art ever to be sold at auction.
