Andy Warhol – Top 5 Best Selling Paintings

We’re about to take a look at the Top 5 Best Selling Paintings by Andy Warhol!

Undoubtedly the most influential pop artist of all time, Andy Warhol managed to break the mold of all art-related industries.

Even though his controversial subjects were not always accepted by the masses, he took art to a whole new level.

His contributions to film-making, music, sculpture, photography and fashion are visible almost everywhere today! However, critics believe his paintings struck the biggest impact upon art-world. Here are Warhol’s top 5 best selling paintings:

5. Men In Her Life – $63.4 mil.

The image depicts actress Elizabeth Taylor with her third husband Mike Todd and her future husband Eddie Fisher. With the picture initially estimated at $40 million, two bidders helped crush the record of the auction house it was being sold in.

4. Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) – $80.8 mil.

As part of Andy’s Death and Disaster rather disturbing series, Green Car Crash was made with the help of Gerard Malanga and photographer John Whitehead. It is Warhol’s only painting of a car crash in which he used color and not only black and white.

3. Tuquoise Marilyn – $90.1 mil.

Probably the most famous of all Andy Warhol portraits, Turquoise Marilyn was bought by impressionism and contemporary art collector Steven Cohen back in 2007.

2. Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) – $105.4 mil.

Soon after Turquoise Marilyn intensified the hype on Andy’s work, the Double Disaster managed yet another selling price record for the auction house.

1. Eight Elvises – $108.1 mil.

Reaching the peak of our list is a painting of Elvis standing in a cowboy-like posture, aiming a gun at the viewer. This image looped 7 times was meant to send out two messages: fame and fear, Andy’s favorite subjects at that time.