Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe fetches record $195 mil at auction

Watched the auction live - the final accepted bid was $170 million for the work.

Taxes and fees bumped it up to the $195 mill mark.

Still pretty psycho.

Art as Investment.

More evidence of how the value of money is going down.

Seriously??.. 195 million for a "famous" hollywoodish portrait??..

The standards of this world are getting lower and pathetic..

Hey, Christie's.. Take my old underwear, how many for an auction??..

Pathetic superficial world..

At an unveiling at Christie's headquarters, Rotter said the portrait stood alongside Sandro Botticelli's "Birth of Venus", Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" as "categorically one of the greatest paintings of all time."

Yeah, not even in your wettest dreams should you put the "Birth of Venus" and the "Mona Lisa" in the same category as this "Marilyn" piece of garbage and the garbage vomited by Picasso. The first two are the works of art, the last are those "promoted" as such.