Where you see Hirsts you will also see Jeff Koons's balloons, Jean - Michel Basquiat's stoned scribbles, Richard Prince's feeble jokes and pin - ups of nurses and, inevitably, scads of really bad, really
late Warhols.
His booth showcases several
late Warhols against a monstrously large stretch of the artist's own wallpaper.
Not exact matches
It
later transpired that the song was actually Bohemian Like You by US band the Dandy
Warhols, but they appear to be just as displeased.
Later on, two more
Warhols went big — a painting of Uncle Sam ended up costing $ 1.21 million, while another that read «Repent and sin no more!»
From the Collection of Robert Shapazian, the
late former managing director of the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Christie's offered a wide range of
Warhols encompassing each of the artist's favorite subjects, from Marilyn Monroe to Brillo Boxes.
Paintings by the lyrical abstractionist Larry Poons, who for his «throw paintings» series did just that with goops of paint; sculptures by Ai Weiwei ranging in price from $ 30k to $ 300k; buckets of Gerhard Richter (after his stellar auction performance of
late); more Andy
Warhols than you could shake a stick at; and, one of my favorites (a great buy ahead of his Museum of Modern Art retrospective in 2014), Sigmar Polke.