Andy Warhol, an American from Pittsburgh and revered for his pop art, used popular subjects as part of his vocabulary. If you know, his popular paintings include the Campball's Soup (which he had for lunch for most of his life), Marilyn Monroe and China's Chairman Mao. This 1972 portrait of Mao recently was sold to Joseph Lau, a Hong Kong tycoon for 17.36M at Christie's in New York.Other sale include the Orange Marilyn, a 1962 picture, which took $16.2m, and Sixteen Jackies, which made $15.6m.
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