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Richard Pettibone (b. 1938)
Lot 228 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION 

Richard Pettibone (b. 1938)

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

Closed17 February 2011

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GBP 85,250

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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

Private Collection, Switzerland.

Specialist note

'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).