“The Warhol buyer was not recorded, but it was sold by the collector Elizabeth Rea, who purchased the painting with her late husband, Michael, at Christie’s in 1983 for $143,000, according to The New York Times. The record for a Warhol was set at Christie’s New York in May 2007 for 1963’s Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I), which sold for $71.7m.”

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