A Knockout Sale: Warhol’s Ali Fetches $18 M. in the Building Where the Legend Was Born

One of the most recognizable faces in American culture returned to the site of his making on Wednesday, when Lévy Gorvy Dayan sold Andy Warhol’s Muhammad Ali (1977) for $18 million during the VIP Preview of Art Basel Miami Beach. The painting—autographed on the reverse by Ali and once owned by Richard L. Weisman, who commissioned Warhol’s “Athletes” series—hung only a few hundred feet from the place where Ali became Ali.That historical resonance was not