Andy Warhol’s Big Electric Chair to Sell at Christie’s in May with $30 M. Estimate
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 Matthys and Hilda Colle.The painting, measuring six feet in width and featuring as its central subject a midcentury executioner’s chair, is estimated around $30 million. Matthys and Colle, both deceased, were known figures in the contemporary art scene in Ghent as benefacto