Lot 228
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Richard Pettibone (b. 1938)
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Richard Pettibone (b. 1938)

Andy Warhol, '32 Cans of Campbell's Soup', 1962

Details
Richard Pettibone (b. 1938)
Andy Warhol, '32 Cans of Campbell's Soup', 1962
signed with the artist's initials, numbered and dated 'RP 1987 11-25' (on the overlap of each canvas)
synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas, in thirty-two parts
each: 6 7/8 x 5 1/8in. (17.4 x 13cm.)
Painted in 1987, this work is number eleven from an edition of twenty-five
Provenance
Private Collection, Switzerland.
Literature
Richard Pettibone: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, 2005 (another two examples illustrated, pp. 176 and 186).
Special Notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

'You don't often hear about Andy being called an appropriation artist, but he was I remarked that Andy's soup cans are an appropriation, he just wasn't appropriating an old master, he was appropriating a commercial artist' (R. Pettibone, interviewed by I. Barry in Richard Pettibone: A Retrospective, Philadelphia 2005).

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