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Cream of Chicken Soup Label (1966) by Andy Warhol (1928–1987)
two-color offset print on paper, image 4" x 6.5", framed, signed

Chicken Mushroom Soup Label (1966) by Andy Warhol (1928–1987)
two-color offset print on paper, image 4" x 6.5", framed, signed

The artist, original name Andy Warhola, began studying design in 1945 at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He moved to New York in 1949 and soon became a successful advertising artist. Around the middle of the 1950s he began making his famous shoe drawings. 1959 he designed wrapping paper together with Nathan Gluck, which was printed with hand-made stamps. Warhol began making his comic-strip figures, such as Batman, Dick Tracy and Superman at the beginning of the 1960s, which were soon followed by his first portraits of Elvis and Marilyn as well as "Disaster", his "Do it Yourself" pictures and the Campbell's soup cans as icons of the American world of consumption. These silk-screen prints were exhibited in 1962 in New York and soon led to the artist's comet-like rise to fame. The artificiality of the consumer world became the artistic motto of Warhol and his assistants, who worked and lived together in the "Factory", Warhol’s studio. He also founded the journal "Interview". Warhol survived an attempted assassination in 1968. He returned to painting in the 1970s and collaborated with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente and produced the TV programme "Andy Warhol Television". Warhol is one of the most important members of Pop Art, who radically changed the perception of art and aesthetic with his works by varying the idea of Pop in his artistic work. In last years Warhol supported other artists like Keith Haring or Robert Mapplethorpe. After his death, his hometown Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania opened the 'Andy Warhol Museum' in his honor.

At the age of sixteen, Tobey went to Chicago in and began to study at the local Art Institute. 1908 he started his career as an employee in a studio for fashion design and finally became an independent fashion designer in New York in 1911. 1922 to 1925 he worked as an arts teacher in Seattle and 1930 to 1937 as a teacher in Devonshire, England.
1925 he visited Europe for the first time, later Persia., in the 1930s Shanghai and Japan, where he was busy for some time with the doctrine and paintings of Zen as well as Hai-Ku poetry and calligraphy in a Zen monastery in Kyoto. In 1938 he created musical compositions of his own. He left England and returned to Seattle, where he lived until 1960, the year when finally settled in Basel.
The first individual exhibition of his works took place in New York in 1944. In 1951 is another individual exhibition in the Whitney Museum, that had been shown earlier in San Francisco, Seattle and Santa Barbara. This travelling exhibition was the international breakthrough for Tobey. Since that moment he was represented at the important international exhibitions as e.g. the documenta in Kassel in 1959 and 1964. In 1974 the Smithsonian Institute organized a big retrospective. Further posthumous individual exhibitions were shown in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in 1984, in Essen, in 1989, and in Basel in 1990.

James Rosenquist, born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, won a scholarship from the Minneapolis School of Art in in 1948. After switching to the Minnesota University Rosenquist worked as a poster painter and designer to earn his living. 1955 he received a scholarship of the Art Student's League in New York. There he also worked as a graphic artist. After the famous exhibition 'The New Realists' in 1962 Rosenquist was able to show his paintings at the Museum of Modern Art as well as at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. During that time the first prints were executed. In 1964/65 he spent a longer period in Paris, Stockholm and Leningrad. In New York 'F-111', one of his most famous works for a one man show came into existence. Rosenquist took part in numerous international exhibitions, e. g. at the documenta in 1968. In 1972 a retrospective showed his works at the Wallraff-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. 1978 he was appointed member of the National Committee for Art in Washington for six years. Today James Rosenquist lives and works in New York.

Roy Lichtenstein, born in New York, began in 1939 with his studies at the Art Students League with Reginald Marsh as his teacher, one year later he moved to the Ohio State College, where he returned to after a three year military service in Europe between 1943 and 1946 for further three years. He was a teacher at the Ohio State College until 1951. He moved to New York in 1957, where he continued to teach at the New York State College of Education in Oswego. Lichtenstein turned to contemporary image contents in the mid-1950s. In 1962 Lichtenstein participated in the first big Pop-Art exhibition 'New Realists' in New York. Two years later his first exhibition in Europe took place in Paris. In 1963 he received a commission for the world exhibition in New York for a mural In 1965/66 ceramic works were created, at the same time he painted his first brushstroke picture. In 1969 he started producing silk-screen prints. His most famous paintings show dramatic figurative scenes in a typical American cartoon style. His work was celebrated in important retrospective exhibitions all around the world.

Paul Jenkins, born in Kansas City, Missour. Between 1937 and 1942 Jenkins studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he experimented with ceramics and became enthralled with Asian art. After serving in the US army from 1943 until 1945, Jenkins resumed his art studies, this time at the Art Students League in New York. He absorbed the influences radiating from that rich art world, meeting such luminaries as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman, and immersed himself in Gurdjieff's esoteric and occult philosophy that was so popular with artists and intellectuals at the time. In 1951 Jenkins painted his first picture with dripping dilute paint. Jenkins went to Europe in 1951, spending quite some time in Italy, Spain and Paris. Although he retained his Paris studio, Jenkins returned to America in 1955 and began to show work at exhibitions. In the mid-1960s Jenkins spent some time in Japan, India and even Russia. The late 1980s saw Jenkins receive commissions for grand public works throughout the world, do a play and produce a number of lithographs. Jenkins continued to show work actively, especially in France and the US. and is still at it, commuting between New York and Paris.

Harriet Hochberg studied art at Hunter College in New York and sculpture at Southport Art School, England. Her work was mainly exhibited in New York and Southern California. She had her first solo show in 1964. Harriet Hochberg also won several art awards and taught sculpture in Thousand Oaks, California. Her list of collectors includes among others Mr. and Ms. Laurence Rockefeller and Ms. Dionne Warwick and her sculptures can also be found in instutions such as colleges and hospitals in New York and Southern California, e.g. several outdoor sculptures in Los Angeles.

Both pieces to be sold together.

This is a rare original drawing from the early 1940s. It depicts the shooting of a movie in the Neu-Babelsberg film studios: “Das Herz einer Königin - Maria Stuart” with Zarah Leander. We contacted the DEFA Film-Museum to confirm. The drawing is in good condition, but the paper has yellowed a bit and has 2 small spots on the lower right. The work is signed, titled and dated on front.
Hans Liska, a German press illustrator, is widely known for his dramatic and lively depictions of war scenes.Few know his other work: book illustrations, landscapes, and advertising, especially for Mercedes Benz.

Heinz Kreutz, born 1923 in Frankfurt and living in bavaria since 1972, was trained as a photographer. After being wounded at the Russian front during WWII and long time in a hospital he turned to art and began abstract painting in 1948. 1951 he studied in Paris, France, and was one of the founding members of the artists group Quadriga, that connected German art again with the international avantgarde. He became one of the most important German post-war painters. Later he transferred his unique style into other graphic techniques, especially woodcut printing.

Mixed media, 1990, from a series of 35 pieces, 18 x 18 in. Elizabeth Chandler, BA 1963 at Stanford University, had her studio in Benicia, California; she is a founding member of a group of Bay Area painters. After years as a teacher and businesswoman, Elizabeth is now a full-time painter. Her work was featured in Vol. 19 of New American Painting Magazine, January 1999.