'I’m for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.'
—Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol silk screening Tomato, from Campbell’s Soup I, The Factory, New York City, circa 1968. Image: © Ugo Mulas Heirs. All rights reserved Provenance
Guy Hepner, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2015Literature
Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann 56
Artist Biography
Andy Warhol
American • 1928 - 1987
Andy Warhol was the leading exponent of the Pop Art movement in the U.S. in the 1960s. Following an early career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol achieved fame with his revolutionary series of silkscreened prints and paintings of familiar objects, such as Campbell's soup tins, and celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe. Obsessed with popular culture, celebrity and advertising, Warhol created his slick, seemingly mass-produced images of everyday subject matter from his famed Factory studio in New York City. His use of mechanical methods of reproduction, notably the commercial technique of silk screening, wholly revolutionized art-making.
Working as an artist, but also director and producer, Warhol produced a number of avant-garde films in addition to managing the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founding Interview magazine. A central figure in the New York art scene until his untimely death in 1987, Warhol was notably also a mentor to such artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Property of an Important Los Angeles Collector
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Vegetarian Vegetable, from Campbell's Soup II (F. & S. 56)
1969
Screenprint in colours, on wove paper, with full margins.
I. 80.6 x 47.6 cm (31 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.)
S. 88.9 x 58.4 cm (35 x 23 in.)
Signed in black ball-point pen and stamp-numbered 71/250 on the reverse (there were also 26 artist's proofs lettered A-Z), published by Factory Additions, New York, framed.
Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 ‡
Sold for £47,880
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