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

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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).

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Descriptif du lot

'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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