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Screen print in colors on smooth wove paper. Hand signed in ballpoint pen on lower left verso by Andy Warhol. Stamp numbered 22/250 on lower left verso (there are also 26 artist proofs). Artwork size: 35 x 23 inches. Frame size: 36.5 x 24.5 inches. Printed by Salvatore Silkscreen Co., New York and published by Factory Additions, New York. Feldman/Schellmann II.54.
The artwork is in excellent condition.
One of ten prints from the 1969 Campbell’s Soup Cans II portfolio. These prints featured additional flavors the brand created. This series, which expands on his Campbell’s Soup Cans I prints from the previous year, is based on Warhol’s original 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans paintings from 1962. Warhol’s signature Pop Art soup cans took the art world by storm. The work exhibits his signature design techniques and philosophy concerning consumerism, advertising, and mass production. The Campbell’s Soup Cans II portfolio is one of Warhol’s most valuable print series of all time.
About the Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987) was a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. Like his contemporaries Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, Warhol responded to mass-media culture of the 1960s. His silkscreens of cultural and consumer icons—including Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Campbell’s Soup Cans, and Brillo Boxes—would make him one of the most famous artists of his generation. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do,” he once explained. Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, PA, he graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949. Moving to New York to pursue a career in commercial illustration, the young artist worked for magazines such as Vogue and Glamour. Though Warhol was a gay man, he kept much of his private life a secret, occasionally referencing his sexuality through art. This is perhaps most evident in his drawings of male nudes from the 1950s, and later in his film Sleep (1963), which portrays the poet John Giorno nude. In 1964, Warhol rented a studio loft on East 47th street in Midtown Manhattan which was later known as The Factory. The artist used The Factory as a hub for movie stars, models, and artists, who became fodder for his prints and films. The space also functioned as a performance venue for The Velvet Underground. During the 1980s, Warhol collaborated with several younger artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, and Keith Haring. The artist died tragically following complications from routine gall bladder surgery at the age of 58, on February 22, 1987 in New York, NY. After his death, the artist’s estate became The Andy Warhol Foundation and in 1994, a museum dedicated to the artist and his oeuvre opened in his native Pittsburgh. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others. A major retrospective of Warhol’s work took place at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York in 2019.
