The Warhol, “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster),” is one of only four double-paneled car crash paintings that Warhol created in 1963 and the last of its size left in private hands. Andy Warhol’s car crash painting sells for $105m and smashes artist’s previous record by more than $30m. A 2009 article in The Economist described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market". The 8ft by 13ft painting, titled Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster), depicts a twisted body sprawled across a car's mangled interior. The 1963 two panel "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)" by Andy Warhol, sold for $105.4 million at Sotheby's New York in 2013. Andy Warhol painting 'Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)' sells for record $105-million, the most ever paid for a work by the artist A prized 1963 Andy Warhol painting … The 1963 two panel "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)" by Andy Warhol, sold for $105.4 million at Sotheby's New York in 2013. And with its bright, shimmering field beside a sputtering image of a fatal car crash, Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) may be Warhol's most profound evocation of the series' grave, human theme. In Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) Warhol selects a subject matter considered particularly radical at the time, capturing the immediate aftermath of a car crashing into a tree, with the silk-screen impression bleakly dramatizing the deformed metal and twisted human body while the reflective silver paint creates a play of light and shadow. A famously macabre painting by Andy Warhol sold for $105.4 million Wednesday, a record for the famed pop artist and the second-most expensive piece of art ever auctioned, according to Sotheby's auction house. His paintings continue to fetch record prices. To contemplate the sheer vastness of its achievement is to enter a realm of experience rarely encountered in Art History. NEW YORK (AP) — A prized 1963 Andy Warhol painting that captures the immediate aftermath of a car crash has sold for $105 million at a New York auction, shattering the record for the famed pop artist amid a spending frenzy in the art world. It is the last in a series of four pieces depicting a car crash. An Andy Warhol painting has sold for … The last privately owned work in an historic four-painting series depicting car crashes by celebrated pop artist Andy Warhol will go on sale as part of Sotheby's fall auction season. Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) is a 1963 serigraph by the American artist Andy Warhol.In November 2013 it sold for $105m (£65.5m) at auction, setting a new highest price for a work by Warhol. Warhol's use of reflective silver paint as background color charges the painting with a shimmering, cinematic quality. 267.4 x 417.1 cm The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster); his works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold. An exclusive preview of Andy Warhol’s monumental masterpiece Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) from 1963, a highlight of Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 13 November 2013. "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)" shows a twisted body in the wreckage of a car crash… The Warhol, “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster),” is one of only four double-paneled car crash paintings that Warhol created in 1963 and the last of its size left in private hands. His screen-printed images of Marilyn Monroe, Campbell soup cans, and sensational newspaper stories, quickly became synonymous with Pop art. Painting Name: Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) Painter Name: Andy Warhol: Completion Date: 1963: Size: 105 x 164 1/8 in. Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) depicts a body twisted in the mangled interior of a silver car. Andy Warhol's magnificent Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) is a major highlight of the Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 13 November 2013 in … The large-scale Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) could fetch $60 million or more when it is offered at the Contemporary Art Evening sale on 13 November in New York.