Performing below their low estimates, the auction houses bet on a “flight to quality” but found little interest from bidders ...

The top lot of the May auction season in New York, a bronze head by Alberto Giacometti estimated at $70 million, failed to sell at Sotheby’s on Tuesday night, dealing a blow to the masterpiece ...

Warhol first began exploring images of the electric chair in the early 1960s, and of the 12 images that debuted at the Moderna Museet in 1968, only four remain in private hands, according to Chris ...

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 ...

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 ...

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90.2 x 121.9 cm. (35.5 x 48 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Andy Warhol’s life may be better documented ... mangled bodies of people who had jumped to their deaths, the electric chair in which Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of spying for the ...