Alice Cooper Finds Vintage Warhol 'Rolled Up in a Tube'

Some people forget where they put their keys; others forget they own an Andy Warhol masterpiece that could be worth $10 million. 

That's how the Daily Beast frames a recent discovery by rock star Alice Cooper, who, for more than 40 years, has had in his keep a silkscreen created by Warhol, whom he became friends with in the '70s, his longtime manager, Shep Gordon, tells the Guardian. "It was all a swirl of drugs and drinking," Gordon says of the time in which Cooper came to own the Little Electric Chairimage, part of Warhol's "Death and Disaster" series. 

The picture, which was based on a 1953 press pic from Sing Sing, features an electric chair similar to one Cooper employed in his over-the-top performances. Cooper's girlfriend at the time, Cindy Lang, arranged to buy the print for $2,500, then presented it to Cooper as a birthday gift, Gordon tells Artnet News.

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