Andy Warhol's four-panel painting made of acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen is a depiction of unrest in Birmingham, Ala. The piece once belonged to the artist Robert Mapplethorpe, and was last at auction at Christie's in 1992, when it sold for $627,000.
It was sold this week to the Gagosian Gallery, an art gallery owned by Larry Gagosian. The business operates eleven gallery spaces, including several in New York, two in London and others spread around the world.
Gagosian Gallery also snapped up the work "If You" by Christopher Wool for $23.7 million.
