Andy Warhol's Silver Car Crash

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Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) was the highest price for Andy Warhol’s pieces. It is a 1963 painting by the Pop Artists. It was sold for $105mr (£65.5m) in November 2013. This created a new highest price for a painting by Warhol. Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) shows a body twisted in the mangled interior of a silver car. Andy Warhol painted this painting at the age of 35; the last painting left in his hands and has been displayed for only

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