Warhol print fetches £625,000

LONDON - A sale of contemporary art - including an Andy Warhol silk screen of Chinese communist leader Mao Tsetung - fetched $…

LONDON - A sale of contemporary art - including an Andy Warhol silk screen of Chinese communist leader Mao Tsetung - fetched $7.4 million (about £4.6m) at Sotheby's auction house yesterday.

The Warhol work sold for £625,000 and Hommes et Arbres Somnamhuliques, by Jean Dubuffet, went for the sale's highest price at $1.24 million (£775,000).

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