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Andy Warhol may be best known for his pop art iconography of Marilyn Monroe, Chairman Mao and Campbell's soup cans, but next month, a silkscreen print of a mangled car crash will be up for sale at Sotheby's in New York. It is expected to sell for upwards of US$80 million.
White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) to go under the hammer in New York
A monumental canvas from the Pop artist's "Death and Disaster" series could fetch more than $80 million at Sotheby's contemporary sale.
Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope star in The Collaboration, which shows the artists in 1980s New York
The exorbitant price for a trivial, empty work underscores the domination of the art world by a financial aristocracy that brushes aesthetic questions aside.