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		</div><p>Andy Warhol’s “first selfie”, the painting which catapulted the pop artist to worldwide fame, has been sold at auction for £6 million.</p>
<p>The work appeared at auction at Sotheby’s in London, 30 years after the artist’s death in New York in 1987.</p>
<p>The image was created using a strip of photographs taken in a New York dime store photo-booth.</p>
<p>Warhol created his first self-portrait in 1963, when he was 35 – and best known for his images of stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and Liz Taylor, as well as Campbell’s soup cans.</p>
<p>James Sevier, senior specialist in contemporary art, said: <i>“In the age of Instagram, Warhol’s fabled prediction that ‘in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes’ has never felt more prophetic, and the artist’s first self-portraits – created using a strip of photographs taken in a New York dime store photo-booth – have never felt more relevant to contemporary culture.</p>
<p>“This is a work of immense art historical importance that marks the watershed moment when Warhol joined the canon of the greatest self-portraitists.”</i></p>
<figure id="attachment_114323" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-114323" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Lot-10-Andy-Warhol-Self-Portrait-1963-64-est.-5000000-7000000-640x795.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Lot-10-Andy-Warhol-Self-Portrait-1963-64-est.-5000000-7000000-640x795.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="795" class="size-full wp-image-114323" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-114323" class="wp-caption-text">Warhol’s ‘selfie’ (Sotheby’s)</figcaption></figure>
<p>His first self-portrait came after Warhol’s dealer had been trying to persuade the pop artist to turn his eye on himself for some time, saying: <i>“People want to see you. Your looks are responsible for a certain part of your fame.”</i></p>
<p>In 1968, the artist was critically wounded by a gunshot and, although he survived, themes related to the fragility of human life became more prominent in his work.</p>
<p>His later self-portraits feature skulls and became “more meditative and reflect on the idea of death”.</p>
<p>The acrylic and silkscreen ink portrait is being sold by a private collector, who has had the image since 1985.</p>
<p>Other notable sales from Sotheby’s on Wednesday night included Roy Lichtenstein’s Two Paintings With Dado (1983) which went for £3.3 million and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (1983) which sold for £6.5 million.</p>
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