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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 ]
Green Coca-Cola Bottles is a 1962 painting by Andy Warhol that depicts one hundred and twelve almost identical Coca-Cola bottles. Andy Warhol produced at least four notable Coca-Cola paintings in the 1960s, with Green Coca-Cola Bottles being one of them. As part of the same series, Warhol created Coca-Cola (3), among others.
Andy Warhol (/ ˈ w ɔːr h ɒ l /; [1] born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century.
July 9 – Andy Warhol's first solo California gallery exhibition as a fine artist opens at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, California, marking the West Coast debut of pop art and featuring his Campbell's Soup Cans. [2] [3] July 23 – The Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum is opened in Cairo.
July 30, 1962: The Trans-Canada Highway opens to traffic. The Trans-Canada Highway was opened at a ceremony to mark the completion of the 92-mile (148 km) long Rogers Pass Highway through the Canadian Rockies, for the final link of the nearly 5,000-mile (8,000 km) system between St. John's, Newfoundland, and Victoria, British Columbia.
Marilyn Diptych 1962. (Andy Warhol / Tate Modern) Early in his success, in 1963, Warhol made “Sleep,” his first serious art film that — at more than five hours long, projected in slow motion ...
Gold Marilyn Monroe is a screenprint painting by Andy Warhol based on a photograph of the actress Marilyn Monroe's face centered on a large (6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) x 4 ft 9 in (1.45 m)) gold-painted canvas. [1] [2] Warhol used silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas. It was completed in 1962, the same year as Monroe's death. [3]
“I heard, and he talks about it in The Andy Warhol Diaries,” Lowe admitted, “I heard that it sold about 10 years ago for $1.5 million.” Jimmy Kimmel Live! airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on ABC.