Andy Warhol - Men in Her Life 1962
Men in Her Life 1962
214x211cm silkscreen and pencil on primed canvas
Sold for: USD 63.4 million
Auction house: Phillips de Pury & Company
Sale date: 8 November 2010
Seller: Jose Mugrabi
Buyer: Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
From Phillips de Pury & Co:
Men in Her Life is an outstandingly important work from one of the most significant and creative moments in Andy Warhol’s career. Made in the fall of 1962, arguably the artist’s breakthrough year, the picture is among his earliest silkscreen paintings, and it combines in one image many of the central themes of his oeuvre: celebrity, wealth, scandal, sex, death, Hollywood, icons of American life. The present painting, moreover, is one of only four works in the Men in Her Life series; it is one of only two of these works on a large-scale, multi-image format; and it is the largest of all the four pictures in the series. It is a work of great significance, fascination and beauty.