Andy Warhol piece sells for $35m
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Andy Warhol's painting of a Coke bottle sells for over $35m.
An Andy Warhol canvas of a black-and-white Coke bottle has sold for $35.36m (拢22.11m) at an auction in New York.
Sotheby's said Coca-Cola [4] (Large Coca-Cola) "is a landmark in the artist's creation of his pop art style".
The artwork surpassed its original estimate of $25m (拢15m).
On Monday, Warhol's Men in Her Life, a multi-image depiction of actress Elizabeth Taylor, sold for $63.4m (拢39.6m) at a Phillips auction.
The Sotheby's auction saw 54 works go under the hammer and total sales amounted to $222.4 million (拢139 million).
Other highlights included a pair of works by Gerhard Richter that fetched $13.23 million (拢8.27 million) and $11.3 million (拢7 million).
Francis Bacon's Figure in Movement went for $14 million (拢8.7 million).
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