Lot 157
157
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Property from a Midwest Estate
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Campbell's Soup Can (Chicken with Rice)

Details
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Campbell's Soup Can (Chicken with Rice)
incised 'Andy Warhol' (on the underside)
silkscreen inks on paper and aluminum
4 x 2¾ x 2¾ in. (10.2 x 7 x 7 cm.)
Executed in 1966. This work is from an edition of eleven, ten of which are aluminum and one in bronze.
Literature
J. Baal-Teshuva, ed., Andy Warhol: 1928-1987, Munich, 1993, no. 37 (another example illustrated in color).

Lot Essay

Campbell's Soup Can (Chicken with Rice) is a vintage Pop art sculpture that plays with the idea of a found object ready-made, but is in fact a small editioned work, published by Ben Birillo in New York in 1966.

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