Andy Warhol's masterpiece White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) has sold for £72 million, one of the highest prices ever achieved for a work by the artist at auction
Image: PA ANDY WARHOL’S MASTERPIECE White Disaster has sold for €82.2 million, one of the highest prices ever achieved for a work by the artist at auction.
The rare work from the US artist’s celebrated Death And Disaster series garnered almost a third of the total sum raised by an evening of contemporary sales at Sotheby’s last night.The titan of pop art, who was said to be fixated on themes of death and mortality, printed 19 images of a fatal car crash in black and white tones to match the newspapers from which he drew inspiration creating White Disaster .
#AuctionUpdate: The star lot in tonight’s sale, Andy Warhol’s monumental ‘White Disaster’—the largest of his iconic Death and Disaster series—sells for an equally monumental $85.4M. #SothebysContemporary pic.twitter.com/9lKOqoe0zGThe work, from a private collection where it has been for 25 years, is the first large painting from Warhol’s Death And Disaster series to come to auction since 2013 when Silver Car Crash made $105.4 million – a record for the artist at the time.
Prior to that, the only other work from the series to come to auction in the past 15 years also set an auction record for the artist in 2007 when Green Car Crash sold for $71.7 million dollars.The Sotheby’s auction also saw strong prices for works from celebrated collections, including from the de Kooning Family Collection, The Collection of Geraldine and Harold Alden, The Mallin Collection, and The Collection of William S Paley.
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