Auction Price Could Rank Warhol With the Greatest of the Masters
‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,’ created in 1964 and based on a publicity still from the 1953 film ‘Niagara,’ was one of dozens of images Warhol made of Marilyn Monroe.
Ondrej Warhola was an immigrant from Slovakia who landed in Pittsburgh and labored in a coal mine. A painting by his son of the most famous movie star in the world, “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” is set to shatter the auction record for a 20th century painting this May. It is a tale so fabulous that Andy Warhol probably would have invented it, if it weren’t true.
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