Important Works by Andy Warhol from the Shapazian Collection Go to the Huntington

SAN MARINO, CA.- A gift of important works by Andy Warhol will come to The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens from the estate of Los Angeles gallery director Robert Shapazian, who died earlier this year. One of the pieces is Small Crushed Campbell’s Soup Can (Beef Noodle), a painting made in 1962 as a unique, early variant of the famous series. Another is Brillo Box, constructed in 1964 at the time of the artist’s first sculpture exhibition; and rounding out the gift is a group of nine unlicensed copies of Brillo Box commissioned in 1990 by art collector and international museum director Pontus Hulten (1924–2006). The works will come to The Huntington later this fall. “Robert was absolutely brilliant and extremely generous,” said Jessica Todd Smith, Virginia Steele Scott Chief Curator of American Art at The Huntington. “His gift is of great significance to us on many lev

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