"Campbell's Green Pea Soup", 1962
(4) Stable Gallery Exhibition Button Ribbons,
Presented to patrons attending the opening of Warhol's landmark exhibit at the Stable Gallery NYC in 1962 (first exhibition of Campbell's Soup Cans).
(button) 2-1/8 in. dia.
(ribbon) approximately 5-1/2 x 2 in.
Provenance letter will be included describing acquisition from Eleanor Ward (Stable Gallery Owner)
to second owner (former arts editor at The New York Times/Editor of ARTnews).
Condition:
Excellent- slight age toning,
museum quality (see pics).
Provenance:
-Eleanor Ward Collection, NYC (Stable Gallery Owner)
-Private Collection, NY (former arts editor at The New York Times/Editor of ARTnews)
-Hemphill Collection, Miami
Note:
Original Andy Warhol Green Pea Soup Can button given out to attendees at Warhol’s first solo Pop exhibition at Eleanor Ward’s Stable Gallery at 33 East 74th Street in New York in November 1962. The button has a yellow back and is complete with original red ribbon. A photograph of one of the ribbons is included in vol. 1 of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné Collection (Phaidon) Fig. 41, p. 076. Reproduction copies have silver backs rather than yellow ones and were included in the Andy Warhol Pop Box (published by the AW Museum and The Whitney in 2002)
"Warhol's first Pop exhibition in a New York gallery took place at the Stable from November 6 - 24, 1962. The show featured eighteen works by the artist, including Do It Yourself, Baseball, Marilyn Diptych, Gold Marilyn Monroe, 129 Die, Close Cover Before Striking, Red Elvis, Troy Donahue, Dance Diagram and Warhol's serial images of Campbell Soup Cans, Coke Bottles and Dollar Bills. Opening night guests were given specially made badges featuring an image of a Campbell's Soup Can attached to a red ribbon. According to Nathan Gluck, 'he [Warhol] was just giving them out to everybody. There may have been a basket of them for people to take... But they're collector's items.'" —Gary Comenas,