Andy Warhol Electric Chair Skateboard Deck

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Andy Warhol Skateboard deck:
Out of Print Andy Warhol Electric Chair Skate Deck circa 2010 (rare):

This work originated circa … Read more Andy Warhol Skateboard deck:
Out of Print Andy Warhol Electric Chair Skate Deck circa 2010 (rare):

This work originated circa 2010 as a result of the collaboration between Alien Workshop and the Andy Warhol Foundation. A piece of pop art that makes for unique wall-art that hangs with ease.

Medium: Silkscreen on maple wood skate deck.
Dimensions: 8.0 x 31 inches (20.5 x 79 cm).
Condition: In original packaging. Excellent.
Estate trademark and printed signature; from a out of print sold out edition of unknown; scarce.

"Electric Chair is part of Warhol’s substantial Death and Disaster series that the artist started in 1962, early examples of which depicted car crashes and suicides as illustrated in newspaper images (see, for instance, Race Riot 1963 and Ambulance Disaster 1963). With this series Warhol began to explore the effect of reproducing such images repeatedly across a canvas, testing his hypothesis that, as he suggested in 1963, ‘when you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it doesn’t really have an effect’ (quoted in Swenson, ‘“What is Pop Art?” (Source: Tate Modern) See less