Andy Warhol - Four Marlons 1966
Four Marlons 1966
205x165cm silkscreen ink on unprimed linen
Sold for: USD 69.6 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 12 November 2014
Seller: WestSpiel
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
From The Guardian:
This painting, in which the artist makes his own longing explicit, is an attempt to freeze time and preserve beauty. Warhol began making portraits of Brando in the early 60s when this image was yesterday's pop culture. It's a still from Stanley Kramer's film The Wild One (1954), in which Brando played the leader of a biker gang who descend on a small town ("What are you rebelling against?" "What have you got?"). By 1966 this version of rebellion already looked quaint.