Monday, February 13, 2012

This Roy Lichtenstein Painting Could Fetch A Record Breaking $45 Million At Auction

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Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's I Can See the Whole Room!...and There's Nobody in It! is expected to sell for a whopping $35 to $45 million at a Christie's auction in New York next month.

The painting, a comic book-style work that depicts a man looking through a peephole, first set a record when it sold at a 1988 Christie's sale for $2.09 million. It was expected to go for between $800,000 and $1.2 million.

The 1961 work is also poised to break the current record for the most expensive Lichtenstein work ever sold at auction. The current titleholder is “Ohhh ... Alright ...,” which sold for $42.6 million at last year's pop art sale.

I Can See the Whole Room!...is the highlight of Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary sale, scheduled for November 8.

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