WARHOL, Andy | Poster. One Hundred Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962

Milan: Mazzota, 1987.

Offset lithograph; 27 x 18.25 inches. 

Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans are among the most recognizable and celebrated works in the history of art. Warhol began his Campbell’s Soup Can paintings around 1961, and the subject would take various forms in the years to follow. The Ferus type of Campbell’s Soup can paintings, which take their name from the thirty-two paintings of individual cans exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, are the largest and best known of Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup paintings. Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Dalla Pop Art americana alla Nuova Figurazione” at the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea–Milano from September 23–November 13, 1987.