Andy Warhol began creating the Death and Disaster series in 1962. Last week his four-panel silkscreen painting entitled "1964 Birmingham Race Riots" was included in the " The Death and Disaster series is estimated to sell for $45 million. It was a direct response to an article Warhol saw in Life magazine that ran with an Associated Press image by photographer Charles Moore. Warhol and his assistant They created a stencil on a mesh screen by carefully pouring a light-sensitive paint emulsion onto the stencil, then adding a black-and-white photograph to the screen, hardening the emulsion everywhere except where it was placed image overlay. Warhol used large canvases that he laid on the floor and continually created in his gallery space which he called "The Silver Factory." Other pieces from this series include "White Marilyn" which Warhol painted shortly after Marilyn's suicide Monroe in 1962. "129 Die In Jet", taken from a 1962 New York Mirror newspaper image showing a horrific crashed and crumbled jet stuck in the ground....