Andy Warhol painting sells for record £65m
about 127 months ago (11/14/2013)
Andy Warhol painting sells for record £65m | The Independent | The Independent Andy Warhol’s double-panel painting “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)” has sold for $105 million (£65m), breaking his record by over $30 million. The sale follows Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucian Freud”, which fetched a massive $142.4 million at Christie’s in New York on Tuesday to become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. Click here for the priciest auctioned artworks Not content with letting Bacon steal all the limelight, Warhol’s striking painting depicts the devastating aftermath of a road accident.