Elizabeth Taylor for $ 30 million
Elizabeth Taylor during her lifetime was the star of pop culture. Now, she will become a true icon, also thanks to Andy Warhol, who in 1963 painted 13 portraits of her, with different colors.
Where does this certainty come from? Already on the 12 May 2011 in New York, there will be an auction of one portrait from a series. It will not, however, in no way resemble the previous. Mainly, because the auction house has set a record high asking price for the image. „Liz # 5 ” was valued at least $ 30 million.
It’s nearly 10 million more than the “Blue Liz“which in 2007, got Hugh Grandt. Three years later, “Silver Liz” was bought for 6.7 million pounds. Sister, “Red Liz” would be the most expensive portrait from Elizabeth Taylor’s series. Certainly the death of an actress is of paramount importance, the more that the painting owner - Steven Cohe - handed portrait to the house of Phillips de Pury & Co on the day of death of an actress. New York-based auction house denies, however, that the picture bidding had something to do with the death of the artist. This proves, however, how great of an actressTaylor was and confirms that her legend will last forever.
Already during her lifetime, when she really started her acting career she was placed next to Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot. She became Andy’s Warhol muse, who painted her portrait after her role in “Cleopatra”, for which as the first woman in the history of cinema she got $ 1 million.