Alice Cooper found himself a forgotten work of Warhol price in the millions of dollars
American rock musician Alice Cooper was found in the closet painting “Little electric chair” by the artist Andy Warhol. It can cost several million dollars, writes The Guardian on Monday, July 24.
The product is made in red and black colors. It shows the electric chair in 1953 were executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American Communists, accused of transferring the USSR developed in the US drawings of the nuclear bomb. The work includes a series of Warhol’s “Death and disaster”.
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According to the Manager of the singer Shep Gordon, Cooper and Warhol became friends in 1972 in new York. The girl rock musician Cindy lang asked him to buy the artist work for two and a half thousand dollars.
It is noted that the acquired “Little electric chair” Cooper no longer remembered.
At that time, Alice released two albums a year, and the rest of the time played on tour. It was a time of rock-n-roll, none of us what did not think. It ended with the fact that Alice put in the mental hospital due to alcoholism, after which he moved from new York to Los Angeles.Shep Gardemanger singer
“Nobody thought that the work is worth something. Andy Warhol was not yet the “Andy Warhol”. And it all happened in the cycle of drugs and alcohol,” explained the Manager of the Cooper.
About “Little electric chair” remembered when the same artwork from the series “Death and disaster”, executed in green and black colors, sold for 11.6 million dollars at Christie’s auction in November 2015.