I Sold Alice Cooper's Andy Warhol

At once propulsive and informative, an insider’s account of authentication and valuation that shows how the art world of the 1970s became the investment-driven art market of today.

In 1972, rock legend Alice Cooper received one of Andy Warhol’s classic Little Electric Chair paintings as a gift, unknowingly putting into motion a saga that would take fifty years to play out. Before going on tour, Cooper rolled up the canvas, slipped it into a cardboard mailing tube, stashed it in his garage in...