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Electric Chair 82

[…] subject of uproarious debate in New York City, and Warhol’s Electric Chair (1964) was met with both controversy and intrigue. He created a few more, mostly monotone Electric Chairs through the sixties, until publishing the Electric Chairs portfolio in 1971. Opposed to the earlier creations,

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Electric Chair 79

[…] doesn’t really have any effect.” Warhol’s Death and Disaster series includes some of his most controversial works, due to the gruesome subject matter. He painted the first electric chairs during the peak of the death penalty debate, conjuring even more attention. In 1963, the New York Sing

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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

[…] the death penalty. The electric chair at Sing Sing prison was used for the last time in 1963, and became outlawed two years later. Warhol’s complete 1970 Electric Chairs suite ranks amongst his top 10 highest-selling portfolios of all time. Andy Warhol’s Death and Disaster series

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Electric Chair 81

[…] 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 1963, remains the apotheosis of controversy in Warhol’s output. Not

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Electric Chair 80

[…] appropriations of pictures already used by media outlets. By reproducing the images, devoid of their context, Warhol reflected tragic events back to the public. Notably, the complete Electric Chairs series from 1971 ranks amongst Warhol’s most valuable portfolios ever sold. Warhol sourced the image of the <mark

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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

[…] and included some of the first prints to demonstrate the extent of his thematic range and lack of reservations about what he was willing to depict. The Electric Chairs portfolio from 1970 ranks amongst Warhol’s top 10 most valuable portfolios of all time. The portfolio’s subject matter

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Electric Chair 74

[…] which contains some of the artist’s most jarring and controversial works. The series depicts macabre images of violence and tragedy found in the media. Notably, the complete Electric Chairs portfolio from 1971 ranks amongst Warhol’s top 10 most valuable portfolios ever sold. In this haunting series, an image

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