WAG’s Warhol prints sell for $780,000

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Four Andy Warhol silkscreen prints of Queen Elizabeth II that were part of the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s permanent collection sold for $780,000 at a fine-art auction in Toronto Thursday afternoon.

Cowley Abbott, the auction house that sold the prints and dozens of other paintings Thursday, had estimated the Warhol works to sell for between $700,000 to $900,000.

The WAG intends to use the funds from the sale to purchase contemporary Indigenous art, in particular works by First Nations and Metis artists, which director and CEO Stephen Borys says is under-represented within the gallery’s permanent collection.