The work is almost four meters high and two meters wide and shows a multiplied black and white image of a car accident. It was already owned by the German gallery owner Heiner Friedrich and the Swiss gallery owner Thomas Ammann.
A similar work – “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)” – was auctioned in 2013 at Sotheby’s in New York for $ 105.4 million. Another of Warhol’s works — a portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) — fetched about $195 million in May — making it the most expensive piece of art of the 20th century ever auctioned.
In total, Sotheby’s auctioned art for about $ 315 million on Thursday evening. The traditional fall auctions of the major auction houses in New York continue until the end of the week.
(SDA)
Source: Blick
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