"amount of interest. By that time, it set a new record for an Andy Warhol creation, being sold for $71.7 million, while the pre-auction estimate was $25 million. The record was broken in 2013, when another painting of the collection, the ""Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)"" was sold for $105.4 million. Green Car Crash Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) is a painting by the American artist Andy Warhol. On May 16, 2007 at 7 P.M, it sold for $71.7m (£42.3m) at auction. ""Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)"" is one of the representative paintings of the Pop"
"to me it couldn't have been anything but an act of God, a blessing from God (...)"" Andy Warhol painted his first ""disaster painting"", ""129 Die in Jet!"", based on the 4 June 1962 cover of ""New York Daily Mirror"", the day after the crash. At that time, the death count was 129. There are two known paintings, one in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, and one in private collection. Elizabeth Musser wrote ""The Swan House"" which highlighted this tragic time in Atlanta. In 2018, Hannah Pittard published ""Visible Empire"", a work of historical fiction that deals with the"
"Race Riot (Warhol) Race Riot is an acrylic and silkscreen painting by the American artist Andy Warhol that he executed in 1964. It fetched $62,885,000 at Christie's in New York on 13 May 2014. In 1963 Warhol began preparing for a large scale exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery in Paris. Anxious to avoid a charge of mass-consumerism at his first major exhibition abroad, he chose a theme he initially called ""Death in America"". These paintings, of subjects such as car crashes, suicides, food poisoning, the electric chair, gangster funerals, and the Atom Bomb, were to become known as the ""Death"
"1963 painting by the American artist Andy Warhol, currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was Warhol's first commissioned work. The work consists of a grid of four rows of nine columns depicting Scull in 36 different poses. The artwork is jointly owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Scull died from a stroke, followed by a heart attack. Ethel Scull Ethel Redner Scull (1921–2001) was an American art collector, best known for the collection of Pop and Minimal Art that she assembled with her then husband, Robert Scull."
"In the Car In the Car (sometimes Driving) is a 1963 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein. The smaller, older of the two versions of this painting formerly held the record for highest auction price for a Lichtenstein painting. The larger version has been in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh since 1980. The painting is based on the September 1961 comic book series ""Girls' Romances"" edition #78 published by Signal Publishing Corp. The painting was part of Lichtenstein's second solo exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery from September 28 to October 24, 1963 that"
"very collectible and highly valuable. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled ""Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)""; his works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold. A 2009 article in ""The Economist"" described Warhol as the ""bellwether of the art market"". Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the fourth child of Ondrej Warhola (Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889–1942) and Julia (""née"" Zavacká, 1892–1972), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U.S. His parents"
"resting state in junkyards or forests, or as elements in his paintings and drawings. ""American Landscape"" is one example of Nelson´s focus on the violence of the wreck with cars and trucks piled into a heap, left to the forces of nature and time. This recurring theme of violence is echoed in the work of Li Yan. His painting ""Accident Nº 6"" looks at the energy released during a crash. Andy Warhol used newspaper pictures of car wrecks with dead occupants in a number of his ""Disaster"" series of silkscreened canvases. John Chamberlain used components of wrecked cars (such as"
"Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue is a series of four large-scale paintings by Barnett Newman painted between 1966 and 1970. Two of them have been the subject of vandalistic attacks in museums. The series' name was a reference to ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"", the play by Edward Albee which had premiered in 1962, which was in itself a reference to ""Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"", the 1933 song immortalized in Disney cartoons. Barnett Newman started the first painting in the series without a preconceived notion of the subject"
"Death and Fire Death and Fire, known in German as Tod und Feuer, is a 1940 expressionist painting by Paul Klee. It was one of the last before his death in June 29 of that year. In 1935 Klee started to suffer from scleroderma, which manifested itself with fatigue, skin rashes, difficulty in swallowing, shortness of breath and pain in the joints of his hands. Paintings during this period tended to be simpler and representative of the suffering he was going through. ""Tod"", the German word for death, is a common motif throughout the painting. It can be seen most"
"exhibition at Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles from April 1–27, 1963, Lichtenstein had his second solo exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery from September 28 – October 24, 1963 that included ""Whaam!"", ""Drowning Girl"", ""Torpedo...Los!"", ""Baseball Manager"", ""In the Car"", and ""Conversation"". Named for its onomatopoeic graphic text, ""Crak!"" is an offset lithograph on lightweight, white wove paper. According to the Lichtenstein Foundation, it was a marketing poster that ""was published to announce Lichtenstein's exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, September 28 [–] October 24, 1963."" The foundation notes that the work is sometimes dated 1964 with numbered impressions that are"
"No. 61 (Rust and Blue) No. 61 (Rust and Blue) is a 1953 painting by the Russian-American Abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. The work was first exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1961. In common with Rothko's other works from this period, ""No. 61"" consists of large expanses of color delineated by uneven, hazy shades. The ""Rust and Blue"" painting was a part of the Color Field Movement because ""No. 61"" relies on subtle tonal values that are often variations of a monochromatic hue. ""Rust and Blue"" also uses layered coloring to enrich the hues in"
"an operation from which he never really recovered. After several years of ill health, during which he doggedly continued to paint, he died of heart failure at his home in Edgbaston in 1944. Southall painted a variety of subjects during his career, including mythological, romantic, and religious subjects, portraits and landscapes. He was known for his mastery of the colour red, the clean and clear light in his works, and for his paintings on the theme of Beauty and the Beast. Southall's choice of medium was heavily informed by his Arts and Crafts belief that the physical act of creation"
"the financial markets during the 2008 crisis. Backed by members of the Al Thani family, the art-dealers collective GPS Partners purchased $400m of paintings and sculptures dating mainly from the 1960s on behalf of private clients. This first cache is said to have included Jeff Koons’s 1986 sculpture ""Rabbit"", which has been valued in excess of $80 million, as well as Roy Lichtenstein’s cartoon painting ""Eddie Diptych"" (1962), Cy Twombly’s abstract ""Blue Room"" (1957) and Andy Warhol’s ""Silver Disaster"" (1963), one of the artist’s paintings of an electric chair. The second transaction, a selection of paintings by Warhol, was sold"
"to Madison, New Jersey, where he painted ""Lament of the Fallen Spirits"" and ""Redemption."" About this time, he was invited to assist in preparing new decorations for the capitol in Washington. In 1861 he transferred his studio to Westerly, Rhode Island, where he painted ""Father Time and his Family"" and ""The Final Harvest"" (1862), ""The Dispensation of the Promise and the Law"" (containing 150 figures, 1863), ""Walk to Emmaus,"" ""The Walk to Gethsemane,"" ""Easter Morning,"" ""Magdalen at the Sepulchre,"" ""The Rock of Ages,"" and others (1868). His painting ""Rock of Ages"" became enormously popular and was reproduced in millions of"
"by larger richly colored murals and ""open"" paintings that feature large areas of whiteness. After his 1953 painting ""Big Red"" was included in the 1956 exhibition ""Twelve Artists"" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Francis began a rapid rise to international prominence. Francis painted large murals for the Kunsthalle, Basel in 1956-8 and for the Chase Manhattan Bank, New York in 1959. Between 1960 and 1963 he created several series of works, including the ""Blue Balls"" series. Consisting of biomorphic predominantly blue forms and drips, these works referenced the pain that resulted from the renal tuberculosis that he"
"their subjects. Cars (painting) Cars is a series of artworks by the American artist Andy Warhol, commissioned by Mercedes-Benz in 1986. A German art dealer, Hans Meyer, commissioned the first painting, of a 300SL coupe, to celebrate the 1986 centenary of the invention of the motor car. When Mercedes-Benz saw the result, it commissioned the entire series, which was to track the evolution of its designs from the Benz Patent-Motorwagen 1885, Daimler Motor Carriage (1886), and Mercedes 35 hp (1901), to the Mercedes-Benz W125, and the Mercedes-Benz C111. Now part of Mercedes-Benz's corporate art collection, ""Cars"" was unfinished at the"
"In November 2013, his ""Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)"" diptych sold at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Auction for $105.4 million, a new record for the pop artist (pre-auction estimates were at $80 million). Created in 1963, this work had rarely been seen in public in the previous years. In November 2014, ""Triple Elvis"" sold for $81.9m (£51.9m) at an auction in New York. Warhol worked across a wide range of media—painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture. In addition, he was a highly prolific filmmaker. Between 1963 and 1968, he made more than 60 films, plus some 500 short black-and-white ""screen test"" portraits"
"No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) is a painting by the Russian-American abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. It was painted in 1951. In common with Rothko's other works from this period, ""No. 6"" consists of large expanses of colour delineated by uneven, hazy shades. In 2014, it became one of the most expensive paintings sold at auction. ""No.6 (Violet, Green and Red)"" is one of the works implicated in the infamous Bouvier Affair. It was privately bought for €140 million by Dmitry Rybolovlev in 2014. Rybolovlev is thought to have bought the painting from"
"Cars (painting) Cars is a series of artworks by the American artist Andy Warhol, commissioned by Mercedes-Benz in 1986. A German art dealer, Hans Meyer, commissioned the first painting, of a 300SL coupe, to celebrate the 1986 centenary of the invention of the motor car. When Mercedes-Benz saw the result, it commissioned the entire series, which was to track the evolution of its designs from the Benz Patent-Motorwagen 1885, Daimler Motor Carriage (1886), and Mercedes 35 hp (1901), to the Mercedes-Benz W125, and the Mercedes-Benz C111. Now part of Mercedes-Benz's corporate art collection, ""Cars"" was unfinished at the time of"
"heart attack in San Francisco, California on March 7, 1956. Known for his works produced with brightly colored expressive brush strokes showing his interest in French impressionism, he eventually focused on painting the coastal areas of California. In the 1930s his health began to falter, and he suffered bouts of depression. In 1940 he took a leave of absence, and visited Monterey, California. He was captivated by the California coastal region, and stayed there for the rest of his life. From that point on he produced, almost exclusively, seascapes of the Monterey Peninsula area. A well-respected leader of the Carmel"
"Under the Sea"". He also illustrated ""Le Tour du monde"" and Guizot's ""History of France"". At the same time he painted a number of remarkable pictures: ""The Attack in the Streets of Magenta by Zouaves and the Light Horse"" (1864), ""A Zouave Sentinel"" (1865), ""The Battle of San Lorenzo"" (1867), and ""Dismounted Cavalry crossing the Tchernaia"" (1869). In these he showed peculiar insight into military life. His full power was reached after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. The long-term French reaction was Revanchism: a deep sense of bitterness, hatred and demand for revenge against Germany, especially because of the loss"
"Henri Matisse; Davies joined them there in November 1912. Together they secured three paintings that would end up being among the Armory Show's most famous and polarizing: Matisse's ""Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)"" and ""Madras Rouge (Red Madras Headdress),""and Duchamp's ""Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2."" Only after Davies and Kuhn returned to New York in December did they issue an invitation for American artists to participate. Pach was the only American artist to be closely affiliated with the Section d'Or group of artists, including Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Duchamp brothers Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Jacques Villon and others. Pach"
"prevailing as the woman stares stonily out the window."" In the Car In the Car (sometimes Driving) is a 1963 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein. The smaller, older of the two versions of this painting formerly held the record for highest auction price for a Lichtenstein painting. The larger version has been in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh since 1980. The painting is based on the September 1961 comic book series ""Girls' Romances"" edition #78 published by Signal Publishing Corp. The painting was part of Lichtenstein's second solo exhibition at Leo Castelli"
"Ethel Scull 36 Times Ethel Scull 36 Times is a 1963 painting by American artist Andy Warhol, is currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art and is part of the collections of both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. It was Warhol's first commissioned work. The work consists of four rows of nine equal columns, depicting Ethel Redner Scull, a well-known collector of modern art. The artwork is jointly owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Ethel Scull (née Redner) was born in The"
"the most expensive paintings ever sold, and made Warhol only the fifth artist, behind Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning to have a painting sold for at least $100 million. The current location of the painting is unknown. Another painting from 1963, ""Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)"", broke the valuation record for a Warhol work set by ""Eight Elvises"" when it sold for $105 million at auction in November 2013. Eight Elvises Eight Elvises is a 1963 silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol of Elvis Presley. In 2008 it was sold by Annibale Berlingieri"
"after his classic ""drip"" painting period of 1947–1950, he used the technique of staining fluid oil paint and house paint into raw canvas. During 1951 he produced a series of semi-figurative black stain paintings, and in 1952 he produced stain paintings using color. In his November 1952 exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York City Pollock showed ""Number 12, 1952"", a large, masterful stain painting that resembles a brightly colored stained landscape (with an overlay of broadly dripped dark paint); the painting was acquired from the exhibition by Nelson Rockefeller for his personal collection. In 1960 the painting"
"Consequences of War Consequences of War, also known as ""Horror of war"", was executed between 1638-1639 by Peter Paul Rubens in oil paint on canvas. It was painted for Ferdinando II de' Medici. Although commissioned by an Italian, art historians characterize both the work and the artist as Flemish Baroque. It serves as a commentary on a European continent ravaged by the Thirty Years' War, and the artist employed numerous symbols, both contemporary and ancient, to deplore the state of the continent. Mars: Mars is the central figure in the composition. The Roman god of war charges with shield and"
"VIII and Catherine Parr"", and ""Trafalgar"" (also known as ""The Death of Nelson""). He continued to send contributions most years until his death. These included ""Retribution"" (1858), ""Esther's Banquet"" (1865) (also known as ""Festival of Esther""), ""The Remorse of Judas"" (1866), ""Herod's Birthday Feast"" (1868), ""A Deputation to Faraday"" (1871), ""Julian the Apostate"" (1875), ""Pygmalion's Galatea"" (1878), ""Meeting of St. Francis and St. Dominic"" (1882), ""Faith"" (1884), ""The Siren"" (1888), and a portrait of his brother ""The late T.R. Armitage, M.D., the Friend of the Blind"" (1893). Probably the best known of these is Armitage's huge imperialistic painting, ""Retribution"", in"
"he traveled to Europe, as he was suffering from heart disease. He visited Chilean friends living in France, Belgium, and London, England. His health worsened, and he died on 19 February 1856 in London. He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. Participated in urgent work of the new state: His artwork consists of drawings, portraits, drawings and paintings, mainly in watercolor. They are characterized by descriptive detail, seeking to capture the picturesque and colorful landscape. He mainly portrayed boats, historical facts, and naval actions. His best known work is paradoxically his only oil painting, the ""Wreck of the Arethusa"". His"
"camps; his mother, grandmother and sister were killed by the Nazis. In 1946 he came to New York and produced several figurative paintings processing his wartime memories. One of his best-known and most controversial works is ""Railroad Collage"" (1959), a collage of two photographs showing a pin-up girl undressing in the midst of corpses of gas chamber victims on a flatcar. He continued with several etchings, sculptures and paintings, often with Holocaust or death themes. In 1960 he founded the NO!art movement together with Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher, out of a sense of disillusionment with the contemporary art scene."
"after 1650, and was troubled by a worsening tremor in his hand, evidence of which is apparent in his late drawings. Nonetheless, in his final eight years he painted some of the most ambitious and celebrated of his works, including ""The Birth of Bacchus"", ""Orion Blinded Searching for the Sun"", ""Landcape with Hercules and Cacus"", the four paintings of ""The Seasons"" and ""Apollo in love with Daphé"". His wife Anne-Marie died in 1664, and thereafter his own health sank rapidly. On 21 September he dictated his will, and he died in Rome on 19 November 1665 and was buried in"
"remaining six paintings in the series, which Warhol called his ""little ""Race Riots"""", date from 1964. Of these ""Race Riot"", at nearly six feet square, is the largest and the only multicoloured example. It consists of four panels each depicting the same Charles Moore photograph of a black man fleeing a dog tearing at his trousers, the middle of the three that appeared in ""Life"" magazine. The panels are tinted in red, white and blue, possibly refracting the byline ""Life"" magazine gave Moore's photographs, ""They Fight a Fire That Won't Go Out"". The panels are a faithful representation of Moore's"
"studio. The following year he was elected an associate member of the National Academy, with full membership bestowed in 1862. His landscape paintings in the 1850s and 1860s were influenced by the Hudson River school, an example being ""Meadows and Wildflowers at Conway"" (1856) now in the collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. He was also able to paint in a romantic style, which had become more fashionable after the Civil War. One of his best-known works, and one of the iconic images of Hudson River School art, is his ""Storm King on the Hudson"""