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Apr 29, 2015 · Ferus director Irving Blum offered the show to Warhol, who was still relatively unknown as a painter, after he first saw six soup-can canvases in 1961 while visiting Warhol’s apartment on Lexington Avenue that doubled as a studio.
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Warhol was a commercial illustrator before embarking on painting. Campbell's Soup Cans was shown on July 9, 1962, in Warhol's first one-man gallery exhibition [5] [6] at the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles, California, curated by Irving Blum. The exhibition marked the West Coast debut of pop art. [7]
Dec 22, 2020 · In 1996, the museum bought the 32 paintings from Irving Blum as a combination gift and sale valued upwards of $15 million—a jaw-dropping return on his $1,000 investment in 1962. Even the...
- Susan Delson
Medium. Acrylic with metallic enamel paint on canvas, 32 panels. Dimensions. Each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Overall installation. with 3" between each panel is 97" high x 163" wide. Credit. Partial gift of Irving Blum Additional funding provided by Nelson. A. Rockefeller Bequest, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M.
Feb 22, 2013 · At this time he received a return studio visit from Irving Blum of Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, who was expecting to see comic-strip paintings and was surprised by the new soup cans, immediately offering the artist a show that summer.
Nov 5, 2018 · That day, in something of a cosmic coincidence, Irving Blum, the Los Angeles gallerist who in 1962 had given Warhol his first solo exhibition as a fine artist, was busy preparing to ship the...
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Mar 13, 2018 · The works were first exhibited by art dealer Irving Blum, who recognised them as a compelling departure from Warhol’s previous comic-strip paintings. He arranged an exhibition at his Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, and exhibited the cans on grocery store shelves.
