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Andy Warhol - Electric Chair F.S. II 82 jpg

Electric Chair 82

Electric Chair 82 by Andy Warhol is a screenprint from the artist’s notorious Electric Chair portfolio (1971). In the early 1960s, Warhol began creating prints of the electric chair as part of Death and Disaster, a loose collection of artworks depicting macabre images of death and

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Andy Warhol Electric Chair 79 screenprint cropped intoa square with revolver watermark.

Electric Chair 79

Electric Chair 79 by Andy Warhol is a screenprint from the artist’s Electric Chair portfolio from 1971. The complete portfolio contains ten images of one photograph which shows the death chamber inside New York’s Sing Sing Prison. Warhol cloaked each image in different colors, evoking a variety

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Electric Chair 75

Electric Chair 75 by Andy Warhol is a screenprint from the artist’s Electric Chair portfolio, published in 1971. Warhol originally painted the same electric chair multiple times in the 1960s. These images comprised a section of his infamous Death and Disaster series. Death and Disaster is

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Andy Warhol Electric chair 76

Electric Chair 76

Electric Chair 76 by Andy Warhol is one of eleven prints from his 1970 Electric Chair series. Warhol appropriated the original image from a press photograph of the death chamber at Sing Sing Prison in New York. This electrifying work is a resurrection of his 1964-1965 work involving

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Electric Chair 81

Electric Chair 81 is a screenprint by Andy Warhol from his 1971 Electric Chair portfolio, which is an extension of his Death and Disaster series. The portfolio features ten prints that are more abstracted versions of his 1964-65 electric chairs. The Death and Disaster series, started in

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Electric Chair 80

Electric Chair 80 is a screenprint by Andy Warhol from the artist’s Electric Chair (1971) portfolio. The electric chair image originated in 1964 as a part of Warhol’s Death and Disaster series, where the artist highlighted the redundant presence of death imagery in the media. The series was

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Electric Chair 83

Electric Chair 83 by Andy Warhol is a screenprint from the artist’s Electric Chair series, published in 1971. The Electric Chair portfolio is part of Warhol’s notorious Death and Disaster series, a loose collection of artworks focused on macabre imagery related to society’s obsession with death.

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Electric Chair 78

Electric Chair 78 by Andy Warhol is a screenprint from the artist’s infamous Electric Chair series (1971). Originally, Warhol experimented with the electric chair concept in the early 1960s, when he painted the same electric chair shown here. The concept originated as part of his

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Electric Chair 77

Electric Chair 77 is a work from Andy Warhol’s Electric Chair (1971) portfolio, which is included in his notorious Death and Disaster Series. Macabre themes became a staple in Warhol’s later work, especially after his attempted assassination by Valerie Solanas. But the Death and Disaster collection came

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Electric Chair 74

Electric Chair 74 by Andy Warhol is a screenprint from the artist’s Electric Chair series (1971). This portfolio originated as part of the artist’s Death and Disaster collection, which contains some of the artist’s most jarring and controversial works. The series depicts macabre images of violence and

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