I bid my Cracker Jack prize!
Posted on 05/14/2021 6:35:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The singer recently found the painting in his garage, after forgetting he owned it for years
Alice Cooper is set to sell his rare Andy Warhol painting at auction later this year.
The painting will sell at the 2021 Fall Larsen Art Auction at the Larsen Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona in October.
Cooper has discussed how he re-discovered the painting, which is expected to fetch between $2-4million at the auction, saying: “This silkscreen was given to me during some crazy years and I had completely forgotten I even owned it.”
The painting, which was created as part of Warhol’s ‘Death And Disaster’ series between 1964-65, is named Little Electric Chair, and is based on a 1950s photo of the death chamber at the Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York.
Explaining how he found his painting, he said: “One day a few years ago, I was talking to Dennis Hopper who said he was selling a couple of his Warhols. I said, ‘Wait a minute I think I have a Warhol somewhere.’
“So I went digging around and found it and it was in perfect condition. I mean it was sort of in a time capsule, which I think Andy would have loved because he loved doing the time capsule as an art piece in and of itself.”
He continued: “So there it was, it had lived by itself for many years. We took it out and had it looked at with the intention of displaying it but then I just decided it was time to move on, time to release it to the world. I figured I’d had it for all this time and had almost forgotten about it — let’s let someone else really enjoy it.”
Meanwhile, Cooper recently spoke about the effects of contracting coronavirus at the end of 2020.
“All it really did with me was it knocked me out,” Cooper told Good Day Rochester in a new interview. “For three weeks, I felt like I went 12 rounds with [boxing legend] Roberto Duran; I was just beat up.”
A new lullaby album of Alice Cooper songs for infants was also released last month. The album was released in partnership with Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star, the company which creates “beautiful lullaby versions of your favourite artists”, via Roma Music Group.
I bid my Cracker Jack prize!
He’s been conservative a long time.
LOL! You win the thread!
I’d have forgotten it, too - if I’d ever had any inclination to acquire it and then stow it in my garage.
Some people have a lot more money than brains. Imagine all of the beautiful, inspiring art that one could buy with that kind of money...
Peggy Lee’s ghost looks at that artwork and asks:
“Is that all there is? Is that all there is to a Masterpiece? Then let’s keep dancin.
Let’s bring out the booze
And have a ball.
If that’s all there is.”
He was a very religious person. He was Ruthenian Catholic and went to Divine Liturgy almost every day.
There are all sorts of religious people in the world, and some of them have also been breathtaking artists.
I don’t think that Warhol was one of them -regardless of how much I value ‘religiosity’.
Actually Cooper has been a Christian for quite some time.
When you are 73...
It’s like referring to the ‘new addition’ on your house that is now 30 years old.
Alice looks as good
as he ever did!
.
“I’m Eighteen”
Is my Favorite!
I have to say, I have always enjoyed the scene from “After Hours” with that song...:)
As an unintended consequence, it also served to monetize the works of these same "artists." It became fashionable to own their inscrutable crap entirely because it suddenly had become so valuable. The über-rich came to discover that they could buy a Rothko painting of two rather dreary and unremarkable squares painted on a giant canvas for $2 million and sell it in 10 years time for $20 million to another "sophisticate" who feared losing social status if they didn't buy one for their own collection, regardless how much it cost.
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Cooper told the New York Daily News: “My wife and I are both Christian. My father was a pastor, my grandfather was an evangelist.
He should sell it to the idiot Eli Broad. Eli will pay top dollar for the garbage and Alice won’t need to pay an auctioneer fee.
I actually kind of like Rothko. He was full of himself, but there is something of simple beauty in his work... and it matches a lot of couches.
Yes, he even said in interviews years ago that he stopped performing songs that glorified "debauchery".
He feels it goes against his faith, and doesn't want to do anything anti-Christian any more.
Wonder if it’s an omen after all these years a Death And Disaster painting shows up and Biden in the WH.
His father was a preacher IIRC.
Great analogy
LOL, the only things in my garage that may be valuable in 50-100 years are a few thousand baseball cards purchased over 25 years ago.
I also have over 400 albums that I brought back from my tour in Germany (77-81). I lived a dozen miles off base, so I basically went without TV for 4 years. I'd buy 10-12 records a month, and mixed my own cassette tapes.
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