Campbell's Soup II (complete set)
Campbell's Soup II (complete set)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
89 x 59cm, Edition of 250, Screenprint, 1969
£240,000-£360,000
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Meaning & Analysis
Campbell’s Soup II (complete set) is a 1969 screenprint portfolio by Andy Warhol of ten Campbell’s soup cans, each with its own promotional flash. The flavours include Hot Dog Bean, Scotch Broth, Oyster Stew, Vegetarian Vegetable and Cheddar Cheese. The set is signed and published in an edition of 250.
The second Campbell’s portfolio extends the first (1968) with ten flavours that are less familiar and more varied in design. Where Campbell’s Soup I keeps to the classic can, the labels in this set carry the extra graphic devices that the company used to sell its products. A banner reading “Stout Hearted Soup” is held by two guardsmen on the Hot Dog Bean and Chicken ‘n Dumplings cans, and the Scotch Broth can bears the line “one of the Manhandlers”. A yellow speech bubble announces “The Alphabet Soup” on the Vegetarian Vegetable can, and yellow arrows read “Important! Add whole milk” or “Great as a sauce, too!” on the Oyster Stew, New England Clam Chowder, Cheddar Cheese and Golden Mushroom cans. The Tomato-Beef Noodle O’s can has its name in outlined lettering with yellow rings.
These details bring advertising language into the work, making this set more varied than the first. The format is the same, with each can shown front-on against white paper, in red, white and gold.
Together the two portfolios give twenty of the thirty-two flavours that Warhol painted in 1962, they remain the most reproduced images in his printed work. The edition of 250 matches that of the first set.
