«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Andy Warhol’s 1962 “200 One Dollar Bills” fetched $43.8 million tonight at Sotheby’s contemporary- art auction in New York.The seller was London-based collector Pauline Karpidas, according to two people familiar with the situation. Karpidas couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.The work, estimated to sell for $8 million to $12 million, is among the artist’s earliest silkscreen paintings, a process that became his signature technique. The 7 1/2-foot wide canvas comprises repetitive images of 200 actual-sized one-dollar bills, reproduced in tones of black on grey, with a blue treasury seal.