Amid a drop in high-end art sales, Christie's plans to auction Andy Warhol's Big Electric Chair (1967–68) during its May evening sale in New York from the the collection of Belgian patrons Roger ...

The original image that Warhol used to make his "Electric Chair" works came from a press photo from Sing Sing prison in New York from 1953. The work is part of Warhol's "Death and Disaster" series ...

Venus Over Manhattan has opened an Andy Warhol show, just in time for Frieze. The exhibition of 18 paintings comes from a series from the 1960s entitled ‘Death and Disaster’. Warhol had a well-known ...

Warhol’s electric chair canvases of the 1960s are among his most indelible works, and he made 14 of them in all. ... Art market Christie's Andy Warhol. Share.

Amid a drop in high-end art sales, Christie’s plans to auction Andy Warhol’s Big Electric Chair (1967–68) during its May evening sale in New York from the collection of Belgian patrons Roger Matthys ...

At the time Warhol created the work in 1963, he had become transfixed with gruesome and morbid images — atomic bomb clouds, electric chairs — and how widely print publications reproduced them ...

Andy Warhol, Big Electric Chair (1967-68) 20th Century Evening Sale, Christie’s, New York, 12 May Estimate: Around $30m. Making its auction debut this monthat Christie’s evening sale of 20th ...

Amid a drop in high-end art sales, Christie’s plans to auction Andy Warhol’s Big Electric Chair (1967–68) during its May evening sale in New York from the collection of Belgian patrons Roger Matthys ...