![]() ![]() They weren’t decorative in the conventional sense. Twenty-five hundred was the going rate at the time. It’s hard to appreciate how little Warhol’s art was worth at the time. “It looks right, and the story just makes too much sense. He believes the provenance of the silkscreen checks out and has dated it to 1964 or 1965. Gordon took Cooper's small canvas, which measures 22 x 28in, to Richard Polsky, a Warhol expert who recently published an addendum to the Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stopped authenticating work in 2011, after a protracted legal dispute over a self-portrait owned by a British collector, Joe Simon, that the authentication panel refused to endorse, rendering it valueless. Without authentication – it is unsigned – Cooper's Warhol is unlikely to make quite so much should it ever come to auction. But the singer demurred – the top price paid for a Little Electric Chair is $11.6m, at Christie's in November 2015 for a green version dated 1964, and he didn't want anything of such value in the house. Mr Gordon, himself the subject of Mike Myers's 2014 documentary Supermensch: the Legend of Shep Gordon, suggested his client hang the work at home. “So we went and found it rolled up in a tube.” Legal dispute “Alice’s mother remembered it going into storage,” he said. Mr Gordon mentioned that Cooper had had a Little Electric Chair. She mentioned how much a Warhol had recently fetched at auction. ![]() Then, four years ago, Mr Gordon was having dinner with a Los Angeles art dealer, Ruth Bloom. The artwork entered Cooper's touring equipment collection, and disappeared. He thinks the conversation was real, but he couldn’t put his hand on a Bible and say that it was.” “Alice says he remembers having a conversation with Warhol about the picture. He ends up going into an insane asylum for his drinking and then leaves New York for LA. It was a rock’n’roll time, none of us thought about anything. At the time Alice is making two albums a year and touring the rest of the time. “As I recall,” Mr Gordon said, “Cindy came to me for $2,500 for the painting. ![]()
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