Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup 12 1/2" Plate. Very Rare. 933 / 1000.

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ANDY WARHOL  Campbell's Soup Can (Beef Noodle),  LIMITED EDITION (only 1000 made).   This one is 933 /1000.
Large porcelain / china 12-3/8 in. service plate with Andy Warhol artwork made by Block China (no longer in existence).
Plate never used.
Andy Warhol used soup cans as subject matter at various stages of his career. In addition to the Campbell's Soup Can paintings of the early 1960s he also produced portfolios of soup can prints in 1968 and 1969. During the mid-1970s soup cans were included in his Reversals and Retrospectives series and in 1985 soup can imagery was again used by him in a series of small silkscreens. Various people have taken credit for suggesting to Andy Warhol that he paint soup cans. According to Ted Carey (a close friend of Warhol during the late 1950s/early 1960s), it was the gallerist Muriel Latow who came up with the idea for both the Soup Cans and Warhol's money paintings. On November 23, 1961 Warhol wrote Latow a check for which, according to the 2009 Warhol biography, Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol, was payment for coming
up with the idea of the soup cans.