Amid a drop in high-end art sales, Christie's plans to auction Andy Warhol's Big Electric Chair (1967–68) during its May evening sale in New York from the the collection of Belgian patrons Roger ...

A seminal work from Andy Warhol's controversial Death and Disaster series will lead Christie's marquee 20th-century art evening sale on 12 ...

For its part, Christie’s is betting that a canonical Andy Warhol canvas with top-shelf provenance can spark interest: it will offer the pink-hued acrylic-and-silkscreen Big Electric Chair (1967 ...

An Andy Warhol canvas centered on a grim subject will be among the biggest lots of the marquee May auction season in New York. Measuring just over six feet wide, Big Electric Chair (1967–68 ...

Amid a drop in high-end art sales, Christie’s plans to auction Andy Warhol’s Big Electric Chair (1967–68) during its May evening sale in New York from the collection of Belgian patrons Roger Matthys ...

Tate’s Marilyn Diptych (1962), replicated ... Throughout, as in his famous series of pastel-coloured electric chairs, Warhol blends brutality with beauty, and gaudiness with subtlety.