Andy Warhol Campbell’s Tomato Soup Can 1968 Color Screenprint

Andy Warhol
Campbell’s Tomato Soup Can, 1968
color screenprint  on paper
paper: 15 1/4 x 14 7/8 inches
image: 15 1/4 x 10 inches
frame: 25 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches
Edition size unknown: estimated at fewer than 300 impressions
Unsigned and unnumbered as published
Stamped verso "screenprint from Banner by Andy Warhol © for Multiples Inc. 1968"
Published by Multiples, Inc. New York
Printed by Domberger KG. Stuttgart, Germany

Condition
Pristine condition, the colors unusually fresh and vibrant, the margins full. In archival aluminum frame with white mat and UV plexiglass

Provenance
Multiples Inc., New York.
Private Collection, New York

Literature
Frayda Feldman and Jorg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne: 1962-1987, Fourth Edition, D.A.P., New York, 2003, see Catalogue Reference F&S II. 44-53, page 213 regarding Campbell's Tomato Soup Banner.

About
In what began as a 1964 commission for the Campbell Soup Company, Andy Warhol a series of everyday items, the Tomato Soup label emblazoned with day glow colors, which soon became an irrefutable symbols of Pop Art.

Warhol's simple technique, using the same screenprinting method he mastered with the Flowers series which precedes the colored Campbell’s Soup Cans, secured for Warhol, more than any other image of his creation, the preeminent post held throughout his career as a generation’s taste-maker and the American avant-garde artist.

The screenprinting technique characterized Andy Warhol’s artistic oeuvre for the rest of his career, foreshadowing his extremely iconic imagery that followed.

Andy Warhol also created this image in 1965 as a color felt banner which was co-published by Betsy Ross Flag and Banner Co., Inc. and Multiples, Inc., New York.

Condition
This is an extraordinary museum quality impression of Andy Warhol Tomato Campbell’s Soup Can, 1968, an iconic Andy Warhol color screenprint that is not usually seen in such exemplery condition. The colors of this impression are particularly fresh and vibrant, the red superb. Most impressions are dull and seldom available in such outstanding condition.

Andy Warhol Interview
Why did you start painting soup cans? “Because I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch every day, for twenty years, I guess, the same thing over and over again. Someone said my life has dominated me; I liked that idea. I used to want to live at the Waldorf Towers and have soup and a sandwich, like that scene in the restaurant in Naked Lunch.” (Andy Warhol interviewed by G. Swanson, “What is Pop Art? Interviews with Eight Painters (Part I)”, Art News, New York, November, 1963).

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