` ` Silver Car Crash ( Double Disaster ) '' A twisted body , wreckage of car crash . This is a record for a Warhol work ; Christie 's auction house declines to name the buyer . It 's the second - most expensive piece of art ever auctioned , Sotheby 's says . I was also painting the Marilyns . Auction House calls it ` ` the most important work of contemporary art '' it 's ever sold .
` ` Silver Car Crash ( Double Disaster ) '' A twisted body , wreckage of car crash . This is a record for a Warhol work ; Christie 's auction house declines to name the buyer . It 's the second - most expensive piece of art ever auctioned , Sotheby 's says . Auction House calls it ` ` the most important work of contemporary art '' it 's ever sold .