Warhol painting of Marilyn Monroe expected to fetch $200 million at auction

A portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe by 1960s pop icon Andy Warhol will go up for auction in May with an estimated value of $200 million, which would set a record, Christie`s announced on Monday.

The work, 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,'"is poised to be the most expensive painting of the 20th century ever sold at auction," said Alex Rotter, Christie`s chairman of 20th and 21st-century art.

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The 1964 likeness of Monroe's face screen-printed with bright yellow hair, a pink face and light blue eyeshadow, is one of five paintings Warhol made of Monroe.

Warhol "used a screening technique on these paintings, on this painting, that he never used again. It was way too complicated, way too involved," said Rotter.

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