Few cars are as recognizable or iconic as Andy Warhol’s BMW M1 Art Car, and now it’s being added to a prestigious collection.

For half a century, BMW Art Cars have offered a unique creative platform for renowned artists from around the world to ...

Andy Warhol’s contribution to all this is a 1979 BMW M1 in Group 4 racing spec. The famed American artist painted the car himself “with only the aid of his assistant,” BMWArtCarCollection.com reports.

BMW will showcase Warhol’s M1 Art Car and Mehretu’s M Hybrid V8 together for the first time in North America at Monterey Car ...

Andy Warhol BMW M1 Art Car turns 40 years old Warhol's Art Car is the fourth one ever produced. The U.S. pop artist didn't take weeks, days, or even hours to complete the red and green paint scheme.

The BMW Art Car Project is still a thing. Since its creation in 1975, about 20 art cars were created – Warhol’s was the fourth – by artist like Frank Stella, Matazo Kayama or Cesar Manrique.

BMW asked Warhol for an art car that same year, so the 470 hp M1 was pulled from racing and sent over to him that same year. The artist, who famously never got a driver’s license but had a deep ...

In 1979, Andy Warhol became another artist to be invited to create a BMW Art Car, and according to the official report from BMW, he painted the car in just 28 minutes. It features pop art colors ...

Woodcliff Lake, N.J. – April 22, 2013 . . . At the inaugural fair of Paris Photo at LA's Paramount Pictures Studios, BMW is proud to present the M1 BMW Art Car by Andy Warhol, created by the pop ...

For the tenth year and the inaugural version in LA, BMW brought the Andy Warhol BMW M1 Art Car from Germany, and it stunned viewers in its beauty and quality, even after all these years since 1979.

BMW’s history with art cars stretches all the way back to 1975, when they presented the 3.0 CSL, painted by Alexander Calder. Four years later, the German automaker collaborated with Andy Warhol ...

"I love this car. It’s more successful than the artwork,'' was the opinion of Andy Warhol after his sweeping brush strokes had transformed the BMW M1. It took him less than half an hour to create the ...