«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

Warhol remained the market’s workhorse. “He’s the real volume trade in our market, the artist who sells the most by volume,” said Cappellazzo of Christie’s. That market could be deepening, as the high price for Self Portrait, from 1986, the year before Warhol died, reflected new interest in the artist’s later work. In case its price didn’t make the point, Mayer predicted that the haunting picture would have the same importance in art history as Claude Monet’s Water Lilies.

The National
May 16 2010