`` Silver Car Crash ( Double Disaster ) '' shows twisted body , wreckage of car crash . Another iconic Warhol image , `` Coca-Cola ( 3 ) , '' sold for $ 57.2 million Tuesday at Christie 's . Price is a record for a Warhol work ; Sotheby 's auction house declines to name the buyer . Comment: The artist was trying to make an ironic statement about how people are so obsessed with cars that they will do anything and everything to get one. 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 . Comment: The artist was trying to make an ironic statement about how people are so obsessed with cars that they will do anything and everything to get one. Auction house calls it `` the most important work of contemporary art '' it 's ever sold .