On November 11th, 2009, Sotheby’s Auction House in New York held one of this year’s most important auctions, where, out of 54 works on offer, 52 were sold for a total of 134,4 million USD. Five works by the king of pop-art Andy Warhol (whose both parents were Rusyns from the village of Miková in north-east Slovakia) caused extraordinary excitement and were sold for a total of 55,780,500 USD.