I Sold Alice Cooper's Andy Warhol by Richard Polsky - ISBN: 9781635425994
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Art’s wild ride: authentication, art world’s shift, and a forgotten Warhol.
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    336 pages

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    24 November 2026

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Summary

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 …

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ISBN-13:9781635425994
ISBN-10:1635425999
Author:Richard Polsky
Publisher:Other Press LLC
Imprint:Other Press LLC
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:24 November 2026
Weight:567g
Dimensions:152mm x 229mm
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I Sold Alice Cooper's Andy Warhol by Richard Polsky - ISBN: 9781635425994
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Critics Review

Praise for I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon):

“[A] breezy memoir of the art market before the economic crash.” —New York Review of Books

“[Richard Polsky] weaves his personal story into the story of a business culture that has grown more venal and volatile in recent years…Art dealers have played a pivotal role in this pricey shuffle, and Mr. Polsky paints them as an entertainingly infantile, manipulative bunch…That Mr. Polsky operates at the periphery of the art world, and knows it, is an appealing aspect of I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon).” —Wall Street Journal

“Entertaining…[Polsky’s] memoir takes the reader on a wild ride about the business of buying and selling this real estate, where one must learn how to play it cool, even when millions of dollars are at stake.” —Huffington Post

“An account of the runaway market of the mid-2000s—where auction houses sold close to $400 million of art in a night, and the value of a Warhol might quadruple in a month—and one private dealer’s attempt to adjust…Polsky’s prose is as unpolished as his per­sona, but that only adds to the rare candor that animates his riveting account of behind-the-scenes trading. Now that the market has plummeted, we can only hope he’ll be able to buy back his Warhol and complete the trilogy.” —San Francisco Magazine

About The Author

Richard Polsky

Richard Polsky is the author of The Art Prophets, I Bought Andy Warhol, and I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon). He has also written for a diverse group of art world publications, including Art & Auction, Artnet, and Western Art & Architecture. Currently, he’s the proprietor of Richard Polsky Art Authentication, the leading art authentication service for works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jackson Pollock. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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