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Christie’s announces the auction of an exceptional selection of Pop Art masterpieces

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s announces the auction of an exceptional selection of Pop Art masterpieces at its Post-War and Contemporary Sale on November 8, 2011. The constellation of major works to be offered will include stars such as Roy Lichtenstein’s I Can See the Whole Room…and There’s Nobody in It!, Andy Warhol’s Silver Liz and Four Campbell’s Soup Cans and Gerhard Richter’s Frau Niepenberg. Works by all three of these artists have previously set world auction records at Christie’s, a leader in Pop Art sales. “Pop Art speaks to the global market as exciting and visually stunning stimulation. Christie’s is putting together one of the great iconic groupings of work by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Gerhard Richter from the nineteen-sixties,” declared Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art. I Can See the Whole Room…and There’s Nobody in It!, one of the earliest