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Warhol Onion Soup Box Painting (1986)
Proudly, we offer the original painting on canvas of Warhol's much-collected 1986 work "Onion Soup Box". Commissioned by Martin Lawrence Galleries, this was one of the Pop Art master's final works before his death on February 22, 1987, and an appropriate one given that he rose to fame with his early '60s paintings of Campbell Soup cans, including one in which 200 Campbell's Tomato Soup cans were stacked one atop each other. Closing the last link in the chain, he returned to Campbell's, for a go with onion soup in a box and not a can. The image is mainly pink and yellow and done in his typical minimalist style that compells the eye to study it long and hard for clues to cultural evolution. The acryllic silkscreened canvas is mounted on a snow white matted background, and is signed on the verso "Andy Warhol 86" in dark brown ink on a white strip created by peeling the adhesive from the wooden border surrounding the back of the canvas. This is a spectacular original Warhol signature, a perfect 10. The 20 x 20" canvas is mounted and framed in a Lucite case measuring an overall 26 x 26". The piece is MT+. Footnote: when Warhol painted his first Campbell's soup cans in 1962, the company sent lawyers along to investigate and possibly sue to stop him from doing any more. Little did they know what an effect the paintings would have on their sales, and on the American culture. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the Martin Lawrence Gallery, dated 6/10/88, with a then market value listed as $45,000. Since then, similar paintings of this size have sold in the $100,000 - $150,000 range. Charlie Sheen actually purchased this painting from the Martin Lawrence Gallery in the 1980s, and it has been proudly hanging in his home ever since.
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