Sotheby’s auction house in New York has sold a famous car accident board, for the artist Andy Warhol, for $ 85 million, one of the highest prices that were paid to the artist ever for artistic work at the auction, according to the British Daily Mail.
The painting is a huge and “painful” silk printing plate for a car accident, and India Warhol is famous for his paintings to Marilyn Monroe, and the Sotheby Auction House expected to sell the painting of more than $ 80 million, during the public auction week, according to the Arab “CNN” website.
Car accident
Warhol worked on the “White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 times) painting” in 1963, as part of the “Death and Disaster” series.
At that time, Warhol focused on horrific and horrific images, such as atomic grenade clouds, electric chairs, and the increasing printed publications, believing that readers have immunity against their effect.
This series explicitly dealt with its focus on human deaths, in the “White Disaster” series, Warhol repeated a picture of a black and white car accident, 19 times, in the plate, which is 12 feet high and 6 feet, which is his largest work..
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