` ` 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 .
`` Silver Car Crash ( Double Disaster ) '' shows twisted body , wreckage of car crash . Price is a record for a Warhol work ; Sotheby '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 .