Lot Essay
The published soup can replicas are signed and dated on the underside of the objects, but the labels are not signed (as with the proofs).
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COLLECTION OF A NEW YORK GENTLEMAN
ANDY WARHOL (1927-1987)
Campbell’s Chicken with Rice Soup Label
Details
ANDY WARHOL (1927-1987)
Campbell’s Chicken with Rice Soup Label
screenprint in colors, on smooth wove paper, 1966, one of approximately ten proofs, all signed in ink along the extreme left edge, separate from the additional eleven copies which were affixed to poured aluminum (and one bronze) actual size replicas of Campbell’s soup cans, comprising an edition of finished replicas, published by Ben Birillo Editions, New York, in association with Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, in very good condition, framed
Image: 3 5/8 x 8 ½ in. (92 x 216 mm.)
Sheet: 4 ¾ x 9 1/8 in. (121 x 232 mm.)
Campbell’s Chicken with Rice Soup Label
screenprint in colors, on smooth wove paper, 1966, one of approximately ten proofs, all signed in ink along the extreme left edge, separate from the additional eleven copies which were affixed to poured aluminum (and one bronze) actual size replicas of Campbell’s soup cans, comprising an edition of finished replicas, published by Ben Birillo Editions, New York, in association with Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, in very good condition, framed
Image: 3 5/8 x 8 ½ in. (92 x 216 mm.)
Sheet: 4 ¾ x 9 1/8 in. (121 x 232 mm.)
Provenance
Acquired directly from Ben Birillo (in the early 1970s)
Literature
see J. Baal-Teshuva, Andy Warhol: 1928-1987, Munich, 1993, no. 37