Andy Warhol 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
In the Sun (painting) and organizing commemorative exhibitions of his works. Between 1994 and 1996, the portrait was shown in the Nikolay Nekrasov Memorial museum, first at the exhibition "Etudes from the life", then at the exhibition "Paintings of 1940–1990. The Leningrad School". In 2007 the painting "In the Sun" was reproduced and described among 350 art works from Leningrad artists in the book "Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School", published in Russian and English. In the Sun (painting) In the Sun () is a painting by Alexander Samokhvalov (, 1894–1971), depicting his wife, the artist Maria Alexseevna Kleshchar-Samokhvalova (; 1915–2000). Alexander Samokhvalov was