Green Andy Warhol Chanel #5 Poster

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Just like the Campbell Soup can, the Chanel No. 5 bottle has become iconic of consumer culture in itself. Andy … Read more Just like the Campbell Soup can, the Chanel No. 5 bottle has become iconic of consumer culture in itself. Andy Warhol was quick to identify such pop symbols and elevate them to art through the mass-reproduction medium of silkscreen. This piece is part of a series of six prints of Chanel no. 5 bottles, all executed in bright and contrasting colors.

The poster is lined and in very good condition.

Date: 1997
Notes: Poster, Linen Backed
Artist: Warhol, Andy (after)

About the artist: Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure on the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. Warhol's artwork ranged in many forms of media that include hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. From autumn 1962 onward, Warhol's paintings were made almost exclusively by screen-printing photographic images on to colored backgrounds. These works were executed with the help of assistants in the studio that he called The Factory See less