Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)
E35982
"Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)" is a large-scale 1963 silkscreen painting by Andy Warhol that depicts a car accident in stark, repeated imagery and is considered one of his most important and valuable works from the Death and Disaster series.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
ⓘ
silkscreen painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
key work in Warhol's Death and Disaster series
ⓘ
one of Andy Warhol's most important works ⓘ |
| artisticGoal | confront viewers with mediated images of death ⓘ |
| artMarketStatus | highly valuable artwork ⓘ |
| artworkSurface | canvas ⓘ |
| auctionHouse |
Sotheby’s
ⓘ
surface form:
Sotheby's
|
| color |
black
ⓘ
silver ⓘ |
| compositionFeature |
large-scale diptych-like format
ⓘ
repetition of car crash image ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | copyrighted ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Andy Warhol ⓘ |
| culturalContext | American consumer culture of the 1960s ⓘ |
| depictionType | appropriated photograph ⓘ |
| depicts |
automobile accident victim
ⓘ
car crash ⓘ mangled car ⓘ repeated photographic imagery ⓘ |
| genre | history painting ⓘ |
| imageSource | press photograph of car accident ⓘ |
| inception | 1963 ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
mass media photography
ⓘ
tabloid newspapers ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| locationOfCreation | New York City ⓘ |
| medium | synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas ⓘ |
| movement | Pop art ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Andy Warhol ⓘ |
| partOf | Warhol Death and Disaster paintings ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Green Car Crash (Burning Green Car I)
ⓘ
Orange Car Crash (Five Times) ⓘ Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times)
|
| saleRecord | sold for over 100 million US dollars at auction ⓘ |
| saleType | auction ⓘ |
| series | Death and Disaster ⓘ |
| style |
mechanical reproduction aesthetic
ⓘ
monochromatic palette ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | fatal automobile accident ⓘ |
| technique | silkscreen printing ⓘ |
| theme |
death
ⓘ
mass media imagery ⓘ spectacle of disaster ⓘ tragedy ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| title | Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) self-link ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)
→
relatedWork
→
Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times)