THE 32 SOUP CANS

When Irving Blum who owned the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, paid Andy a visit in May 1962, he found him kneeling next to the glowing television with the radio and the record player blasting opera and rock simultaneously, painting his sixteenth portrait of a soup can. «What happened to your cartoons?» asked Blum , who had seen his paintings of Superman a year earlier. Oh, replied Andy nochalantly «Lichtenstein was doing them better so I'm not doing them any more. Now I'm doing these» and he explained that his intention was to paint all thity-two varieties.

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Victor Bockris
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