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View Comments Little Electric Chair, the black-and-blood-red Andy Warhol silkscreen legendary rocker Alice Cooper discovered in storage and plans to auction off this fall will be available for public viewing at Scottsdale s Larsen Gallery during the Thursday ArtWalk on June 24.
The acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas will be displayed from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the gallery for one day only.
Larsen Gallery is at 3705 N. Bishop Lane, Scottsdale.
Cooper chose Larsen in Scottsdale to sell the 22-by-28-inch work he famously forgot had been sitting in storage for decades until he found it rolled up in a tube.
As the rocker explained in a press release, “I was never a Warhol collector. When I collect, I like to collect a lot of pieces and I’m not going to get any more Warhols. Somebody is probably looking for this electric chair and I have it.”
The rare Andy Warhol painting Alice Cooper rediscovered in storage in 2017 is set to be auctioned off this October, with an estimated price tag range of between $2.5 million to $4.5 million dollars.
The 22 x 28 silkscreen, dubbed The Little Electric Chair, is taken from Warhol s Death and Disaster series and was inspired by a press photo of the death chamber at the Sing Sing prison, which is located in Ossining, New York.
The work was completed in 1964 and purchased by Cindy Lang, Cooper s girlfriend at the time, for $2,500 as a birthday present. The two were both living in New York City and since the artwork depicts an electric chair, it was a natural choice for a gift as Cooper had incorporated an act of electrocution into his band s stage act.
As Alice Cooper tells it, he was hanging out with Dennis Hopper at the Kentucky Derby back in the day when the topic of artist Andy Warhol came up.
Hopper was a noted Warhol collector who was selling a few of his pieces, and the discussion made Cooper remember that he, too, had a Warhol painting in his garage. When he went home and located the painting, he found it was still in perfect condition.
Soon, Cooper will be selling that Warhol,
Little Electric Chair, at auction on October 23. Larsen Art Auction in Scottsdale is handling the sale, which is expected to fetch $2.5 to $4.5 million.