Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) 'Campbell's soup I, Beef',...

Hammer

£28,000

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
'Campbell's soup I, Beef', 1968.
Signed and numbered 129/250 to verso, Halcyon gallery labels to verso, screenprint on paper, 88.5 x 58.5 cm, mounted in a black and silver frame. With an extensive folder of paperwork.

Provenance: From the estate of an English gentleman, who purchased the work from the Halcyon gallery in 2022 for £145,000. With certificate of authenticity.

Note: Andy Warhol, the trailblazer of Pop Art, famously remarked, “once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.” His Campbell’s Soup series marked a groundbreaking shift in modern art, challenging the traditional divide between high and low culture by featuring mass-consumed objects and commonplace advertising imagery. Through the appropriation of Campbell’s Soup imagery, inspired by his own visual experience of modern life, Warhol demonstrated how an ordinary object can transcend its everyday nature to become a work of art within the still-life genre.