Cohen’s Warhol ‘Liz’ Helps Phillips de Pury to $99 Million Sale
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Phillips de Pury & Co. scored its second-highest tally ever for a contemporary art sale in New York Thursday night, boosted by a hot property from hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen.
The founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors LP consigned Andy Warhol’s portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, and the late screen idol was the star of the evening’s 50-lot sale.