The world’s most powerful art dealer purchased ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ Monday on behalf of a mysterious billionaire collector. “And yet,” writes V.F.’s NFreeman1234, “the feeling in the room after the Warhol sale was, if you can believe it, deflated.”
“We’re at $160 million; 160 is the bid, and we’re pausing with Adrien,” Pylkkänen said.“You heard it, the gentlemen in the third row,” Pylkkänen said.
“Last chance, fair warning, last chance, here it is, the Warhol is selling here,” Pylkkänen said, looking down at the impending winner.So who bought the thing? We can rule out that it was for Gagosian’s personal collection, even if the man does have a few choice Warhols hanging at the Upper East Side mansion, includingwhich he’s owned for more than a decade and watched as a similar version sold at Christie’s in 2014 for more than $81 million.
For what it’s worth, sources say the buyer was not another of Gagosian’s clients, Ken Griffin, who did just spend $240 million on another WarholRyan Murphy,The Andy Warhol Diaries.“I think it could beWhile Mr. Arnault—the owner of LVMH and a billionaire 144 times over—did not appear to be in the room, his sonHedi SlimaneBut perhaps it’s a pipe dream to think that Mr.
Through a representative, Gagosian himself declined to comment. The art dealer who won the world’s most expensive Warhol was last seen Monday night leaving the salesroom, beelining through the crowd of dealers and collectors assembled outside, and heading off to dinner.
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