Whereas his work of celebrities and Campbell’s soup cans are extra extensively identified, Andy Warhol’s Loss of life and Catastrophe sequence — and particularly his electrical chair items — are amongst his most introspective and influential works. Large Electrical Chair stands other than the 13 different items within the sequence as a sole instance that options black silkscreen towards a single-color floor. As well as, it is a nearer crop than most, eradicating ancillary particulars like pipes and signage to place an additional spotlight on the demise equipment. Initially proven at Warhol’s first main European retrospective at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet in 1968, it was bought by famous Belgian collectors Roger Matthys and Hilda Colle, and will probably be offered at public sale for the primary time from their assortment throughout Christie’s twentieth Century Night Sale in New York on Could twelfth.
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