“A new record was set for work by Andy Warhol when a painting of a car crash sold for $71.7m in New York. The 1963 painting, Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I), depicts an overturned car on fire. It easily beat the previous auction record for work by the pop art pioneer, set last November when a painting of Chairman Mao sold for $17.4m. The sale, at Christie’s, was part of the second most-lucrative art auction ever, earning a total of $385m.”