Andy Warhol’s Skulls painting sells for £4.3 million

The master of pop art, Andy Warhol, has had one of his works sell at Sotheby’s for £4.3 million. The artwork, named Skulls, is made up of different 10 different canvas prints of the skull. It sold for £4,353,250.

The painting was created by Warhol in 1976 and features 10 canvases that created using the artist’s famed silkscreen process. Each one is hand signed by Warhol.

Cheyenne Westphal is the chairman of contemporary art at Sotheby’s. He says that the sale of Warhol’s Skulls is the most expensive art to ever sell in October at the auction house:

While our total fell short of its low estimate, the sale was assembled in a very different economic environment from that which prevailed.

It is important to keep perspective - this market has witnessed rapid growth.

What we have seen… is that buyers are continuing to respond to unprecedented saleroom opportunities and works of high quality, fresh to the market and properly estimated continue to perform well.