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Warhol's Taylor portrait up for sale

Dame Elizabeth Taylor delivers a state of AIDS address at the 2006 Macy's Passport and American Express HIV/AIDS fundraiser and fashion show in Santa Monica, California on September 28, 2006. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen)
Dame Elizabeth Taylor delivers a state of AIDS address at the 2006 Macy's Passport and American Express HIV/AIDS fundraiser and fashion show in Santa Monica, California on September 28, 2006. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) | License Photo

NEW YORK, March 25 (UPI) -- Andy Warhol's 1963 portrait of screen icon Elizabeth Taylor is expected to fetch at least $20 million at a New York auction, The Wall Street Journal said.

Taylor died Wednesday of congestive heart failure. She was 79.

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"Liz #5," a turquoise silk screen bearing Taylor's likeness, is being sold by hedge-fund manager Steve Cohen at Phillips de Pury's May 12 contemporary art sale, the Journal said.

The price Cohen paid for the work when he bought it from the estate of an art dealer who died in 2007 has not been made public, the newspaper said.

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