Alice Cooper is gearing up to sell his rare Andy Warhol painting at an auction later this year, so start penny-pinching now.
The painting is expected to fetch between $2-4 million when it’s sold at the Fall Larsen Art Auction at Arizona’s Larsen Gallery in October.
Named ‘Little Electric Chair’, the painting was created as part of Warhol’s ‘Death and Disaster’ series between 1964-65. As reported by NME, it is based on a 1950s photo of the death chamber at the Sing Sing prison in New York.
According to Cooper, he had “completely forgotten [he] even owned” the artwork since it was given to him “during some crazy years”.
Alice Cooper explained: “One day a few years ago, I was talking to [actor] Dennis Hopper who said he was selling a couple of his Warhols. I said, ‘Wait a minute I think I have an Andy Warhol somewhere.’”
He continued: “So I went digging around and found it and it was in perfect condition. I mean it was sort of in a time capsule, which I think Andy Warhol would have loved because he loved doing the time capsule as an art piece in and of itself.”
“So there it was, it had lived by itself for many years. We took it out and had it looked at with the intention of displaying it but then I just decided it was time to move on, time to release it to the world. I figured I’d had it for all this time and had almost forgotten about it — let’s let someone else really enjoy it,” he concluded.
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In other news, Cooper recently revealed how he dealt with contracting coronavirus at the end of 2020.
“All it really did with me was it knocked me out,” he told Good Day Rochester.
“For three weeks, I felt like I went 12 rounds with Roberto Duran; I was just beat up”
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