Death and Disaster Series

The Death and Disaster Series is a group of silkscreen serigraphs created between 1962 and 1967 by the American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987). They are associated with the explosion of mass-media coverage and content.

The impetus for the series was sparked when the art curator Henry Geldzahler remarked to Warhol, over the morning newspaper headlines at breakfast, "It is enough life. It is time for a little death".[1]

The initial works depict images in one color, a reproduction of the same images, or the same images with no color entirely. Though later towards the very end of the series he used multiple colors on images of the electric chair.[2]

“These Disaster paintings are not Andy reveling in disaster: This is Andy sitting at the eye of the storm, being the one still person among disasters, death and horror,” art historian Sir John Richardson related in a 2013 interview.[3]

in November 2013 Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) from the series sold for $105 million US, making it the highest price paid for a Warhol serograph at that time.[4] Previously, another work from the series Green Car Crash (1963) which sold for $71.7 million US at auction in 2007, held this record. [5]

References

  1. ^ https://www.christies.com/en/stories/little-electric-chair-by-andy-warhol-1e2f834d9f0d4838b62ca96d016aedfd
  2. ^ "Andy Warhol's paintings of death & disaster". publicdelivery.org.
  3. ^ Enking, Molly. "Andy Warhol's 12-Foot-Tall 'White Disaster' Could Sell For $80 Million". Smithsonian Magazine.
  4. ^ "Andy Warhol auction record shattered". November 14, 2013 – via www.bbc.com.
  5. ^ News, A. B. C. "The $71 Million Car Crash". ABC News. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
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