Christie’s Has Art World’s First $1 Billion We
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I t was a week the art world had never seen before.
For the first time, an auction house sold more than $1 billion of art over three
days at that — a vast outpouring of money that amazed even the wealthy and
the celebrities who flocked to the auction floor .
Andy Warhol’s monumental 1963 silkscreen on canvas,
“Colored Mona Lisa,” sold for $56.2 million on Wednesday.