Bloomberg: 'Warhol Tops Picasso as Hottest Artist, Artprice Says'

Andy Warhol has overtaken Picasso as the world's most actively traded artist, said the French-based art-market database, Artprice, in its annual report on trends.

Warhol led the 2007 table of the world's 500 most auctioned artists with $422.3 million in sales, more than doubling the year- earlier $199.6 million, Artprice said. Seventy-four Warhol works sold for more than $1 million, led by the hammer price of $64 million paid for ``Green Car Crash'' at Christie's International, New York, in May. Christie's is based in London.

 

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