--- title: Alice Cooper Found an Andy Warhol Print in Storage Locker description: Alice Cooper discovered that he had a silkscreen print of Andy Warhol's "Little Electric Chair" in a storage locker. canonical: https://time.com/4873407/alice-cooper-has-andy-warhol-art/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-25T20:05:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:47.356Z og:title: Alice Cooper Discovers Andy Warhol Print Worth Millions og:description: It was originally purchased for $2,500 and he forgot about it og:url: https://time.com/4873407/alice-cooper-has-andy-warhol-art/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb1de8a87e2f5773c/6988d721096a942fbe69ee61/alice-cooper-discovers-andy-warhol-silkscreen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Alice Cooper performance in Barcelona og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alice Cooper Discovers Andy Warhol Print Worth Millions twitter:description: It was originally purchased for $2,500 and he forgot about it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb1de8a87e2f5773c/6988d721096a942fbe69ee61/alice-cooper-discovers-andy-warhol-silkscreen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Alice Cooper Casually Discovered Andy Warhol Art 'Worth Millions' in Storage > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 25, 2017 8:05 PM UTC  Alice Cooper, singer of Alice Cooper Band during his performance at Rock Fest Barcelona 2017 Festival in Santa Coloma, Spain on July 01, 2017 (Photo by Miquel Llop/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Alice Cooper, singer of Alice Cooper Band during his performance at Rock Fest Barcelona 2017 Festival in Santa Coloma, Spain on July 01, 2017 (Photo by Miquel Llop/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto—NurPhoto via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 25, 2017 8:05 PM UTC [Alice Cooper](http://time.com/4633506/actors-musicians-crossover-bruce-willis/) has re-discovered a potentially rare [Andy Warhol](http://time.com/3656492/andy-warhol-never-before-seen-pictures/) piece in storage nearly 40 years later after he acquired it; the piece is estimated to be worth millions. According to [_The Guardian_](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/24/alice-cooper-andy-warhol-little-electric-chair), the rocker found the red silkscreen print of “Little Electric Chair,” a part of Warhol’s Death and Disaster series, “rolled up in a tube” in a storage locker along with memorabilia from his many tours, including an electric chair that Cooper used in the ’70s as a part of his stage set. Cooper’s longtime manager Shep Gordon told _The Guardian_ that Warhol and Cooper were good friends and that Cooper’s former girlfriend Cindy Lang had purchased the print for a modest $2,500. “Alice says he remembers having a conversation with Warhol about the picture. He thinks the conversation was real, but he couldn’t put his hand on a Bible and say that it was…Truthfully, at the time no one thought it had any real value. Andy Warhol was not ‘Andy Warhol’ back then. And it was all a swirl of drugs and drinking.” The top price paid for a Little Electric Chair was [$11.6 million in 2015](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/alice-cooper-just-remembered-that-warhol-electric-chair-he-got-40-years-ago-1028822); while Cooper’s version is unsigned, Warhol expert Richard Polsky believes that the piece is an authentic Warhol piece dated to either 1964 or 1965. “I’m 100%,” Polsky said. “It looks right, and the story just makes too much sense. It’s hard to appreciate how little Warhol’s art was worth at the time. Twenty-five hundred was the going rate at the time. Why would Andy give him a fake? He had plenty of electric chairs. They were not an easy sell. They weren’t decorative in the conventional sense. 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