Hugh Grant Earned 23 Millions From Auction

Hugh Grant's Andy Warhol portrait of Elizabeth Taylor has sold for 23.7 million dollars. The iconic work, bought by the actor for 4 million dollars six years ago, made Hugh a fortune despite failing to attract the pre-sale estimated price of 35 million dollars when it went under the hammer at Christie's auction house in New York on Tuesday (13.11.07).

The turquoise 'Liz' - which is one of 13 images of the 'Cleopatra' actress that Warhol made from a publicity photograph in 1963 - was sold to an anonymous bidder. The portrait headed Christie's Post War and Contemporary Art Sale at New York's Rockefeller Center.

The top seller at the auction was Mark Rothko's 1995 Untitled (Red, Blue, Orange), which fetched a staggering 34.2 million dollars. Warhol paid tribute to a number of other iconic women in the 60s with similar collections of different colored portraits, including Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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