Warhol artwork sells for $43.8m

Andy Warhol artwork 200 One Dollar Bills has sold in New York for $43.8m (£26.5m) – the second highest auction price for a work by the pop artist.

The 1962 silk screen print, which shows 200 life-sized images of dollar bills, had a pre-sale estimate of $8m to $12m (£4.8m to £7.3m) at Sotheby’s.

The contemporary sale fetched $134.4m (£81.3m) with 52 out of 54 lots sold.

Warhol’s 1963 painting Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) sold for a record $71.7m (£43.4m) in 2007.

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