Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Offset Lithograph

Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans (1962)

Offset lithograph, Signed in the plate

Famous offset lithograph by Andy Warhol in mint condition!

Authorized by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc,.

Designed by McGaw Graphics, Inc.

Edition details appear at the bottom of the plate.

50 x 70 cm

Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans are perhaps the best-known images in modern American art. Originally created in 1962 as a series of thirty-two canvases, Soup Cans gained international fame as a Pop Art breakthrough.

Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans are perhaps the best-known images in modern American art. Originally created as a series of thirty-two canvases in 1962, Soup Cans was acclaimed around the world as a breakthrough in Pop Art. When the paintings were first exhibited that year, they were displayed together like products in a grocery store. Each can of soup was a different flavor and looked just like the actual image of the red and white Campbell's soup cans. Although they appear identical to well-known grocery products, the artist's work is evident through the slight variations in the lettering and hand-stamped fluer-de-lis symbols on the bottom of each box. This juxtaposition between pure reproduction and the artist's hand makes the series all the more intriguing.

Warhol drew inspiration from his personal life to create this series. He explains: "I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again." This sense of repetition was both internalized by the artist and embodied by mass commercial culture. Initially, the debut of Campbell's soup cans was widely contested, with many onlookers having difficulty understanding this blatant appropriation of a mundane object. However, Warhol would push the themes of repetition and mass production further by creating two portfolios of screen prints of Campbell's soup cans in 1968.