Provenance
Private Collection, Switzerland
Exhibited
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Andy Warhol - Retrospektive, 1 July 1993 - 19 September 1993 (another example exhibited)
Sion, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-arts, La force de la répétition, 29 June 2001 - 17 September 2001 (another example exhibited)
Ingelheim, Boehringer Ingelheim, Rathaus der Stadt Ingelheim, Andy Warhol. Me, Myself and I, 1 May 2006 - 9 July 2006 (another example exhibited)
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Andy Warhol. Other Voices, Other Rooms, 12 October 2007 - 13 January 2008, then travelled to Stockholm, Moderna Museet (9 February 2008 - 4 May 2008), then travelled to London, The Hayward Gallery (8 October 2008 - 18 January 2009) (another example exhibited)
Florence, Galleria dell'Accademia, Mapplethorpe. Perfection in Form, 25 May 2009 - 27 September 2009 (another example exhibited)
Literature
S. Feeser, Die Rhein-Pfalz, 6. June 2006, Rheinpfalz Verlag, Ludwigshafen, (illustrated in colour)
F. Feldman, J. Schellmann, Claudia Defendi, Andy Warhol Prints - A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987 (FoUrth Edition, revised and expanded), Milan, 2003, P. 78/79, No II.74-83, (illustrated in colour)
D. Hickey et al., Andy Warhol 'Giant' Size, New York, 2006, P. 229, (illustrated in colour)
P. Rochard, Andy Warhol. Me, Myself and I, Ingelheim a.R., 2006, P. 146-151, No 72, (illustrated in colour)
E. Meyer-Hermann, Andy Warhol. A guide to 706 Items in 2 Hours 56 Minutes. Other Voices, Other Rooms, Stedelijk Museum, Rotterdam, 2007, P. 44-45, (illustrated in colour)
R. Marrone, Bruno Bischofberger, Andy Warhol. Big Retrospective Painting, Zurich, 2009, P. 108, (illustrated in colour)
J. Nelson, Franca Falletti et al., Mapplethorpe. Perfection in Form / La perfezione nella forma, Kempen, 2009, P. 193 (6 of 10 sheets), No 88, (illustrated in colour)
Catalogue Essay
‘The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel’ ANDY WARHOL

The present lot is a complete portfolio comprised of ten prints of the Electric Chair, each depicting the same image, while variations in color, exposure, and painterly gestures give a unique feature to each print. The picture used is derived from the Electric Chair paintings made by Warhol in the 1960’s, now cropped to present the chair alone in the foreground.

Warhol’s disturbing images of a solitary mechanism standing in an estranged concrete space is thought to be the electric chair from Sing Sing Penitentiary in Ossining, New York. Made infamous by the executions of the Rosenbergs, the electric chair was a topical subject in New York during this period, generating much public debate. Fundamentally a murder-machine fabricated by the same industrial system of mass production that produced Campbell soup cans and Coke bottles, the electric chair discerns pictorial truths of the death industry in America and the dark side of consumer capitalist culture.
Artist Biography
Andy Warhol
American • 1928 - 1987
Andy Warhol was the leading exponent of the Pop Art movement in the U.S. in the 1960s. Following an early career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol achieved fame with his revolutionary series of silkscreened prints and paintings of familiar objects, such as Campbell's soup tins, and celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe. Obsessed with popular culture, celebrity and advertising, Warhol created his slick, seemingly mass-produced images of everyday subject matter from his famed Factory studio in New York City. His use of mechanical methods of reproduction, notably the commercial technique of silk screening, wholly revolutionized art-making.
Working as an artist, but also director and producer, Warhol produced a number of avant-garde films in addition to managing the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founding Interview magazine. A central figure in the New York art scene until his untimely death in 1987, Warhol was notably also a mentor to such artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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Andy Warhol

Electric Chairs

1971
The complete set of ten screenprints, in colours, on wove paper.
each sheet 90 x 121.4 cm. (35 3/8 x 47 3/4 in.)
Signed and dated ‘Andy Warhol ‘71’ in black ballpoint pen and stamp numbered ‘064/250’ on the reverse (there were also 50 artist’s proofs in Roman numerals), published by Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich (with their copyright stamp on the reverse).

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£60,000 - 80,000

Sold for £122,500

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Diamond Dust Shoes
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Skull
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Andy Warhol
Electric Chairs
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