Andy Warhol Electric Chair

From martini studio darte andy warhol electric chair 1971 multiple screen printing on paper 90 1215 cm.

Andy warhol electric chair. Electric chair by andy warhol warhol began using the image of the electric chair in 1963 the same year as the two final executions in new york state. From the broad collection. Located innew york ny created in 1971 andy warhols electric chair is a screenprint in colors on wove paper. 22 x 28 in 559 x 711 cm.

Yet electric chair with its eponymous chair printed once on each of ten separate sheets of paper belies this statement. Andy warhol 1928 1987 little electric chair painted in 1964 1965. The artist noted that it was henry geldzahler a curator at the metropolitan museum of art new york who. Gave me the idea to start the death and disaster series.

It was created on a medium sized canvas and was part of warhols renowned death and disasters series that the artist started in 1962. Andy warhol first used the image of the electric chair in his death and disaster series a loose group of works that occupied him from 196265. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen. The electric chair was originally a form of capital punishment created to replace hanging.

Over the next decade he repeatedly returned to the subject reflecting the political controversy surrounding the death penalty in america in the 1960s. Death by electrocution was a controversial subject in new york city where the artist lived and worked especially after the last two executions at sing sing correctional facility in 1963. The work speaks to the constant reiteration of tragedy in the media and becomes perhaps an attempt to exorcise this image of death through repetition. Andy warhol big electric chair 1967 68 acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen the eli and edythe l.

Andy warhols famous imagery of the electric chair was first created in 1964 as a silkscreen painting. Sold for 8220000 in post war and contemporary art evening sale on 15 may 2019 at christies in new york.