CONTEMPORARY SOUP

Contemporary soup

Contemporary soup

“Warhol did three sequence of soup containers; the last of these, which this painting arrives from, is often called the Still Life Series,” said Laura Paulson, a deputy chairwoman at Christie's. “Some were pierced with a can opener, other ones flayed, their marks tattered or crushed.”

Since it left the manufacturer, this work has been in only three collections. The year it was decorated, the New York collectors Burton and Emily Tremaine acquired it exactly from Warhol. And that summer it was included in an public showing at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, which became the ...