''Campbell's Soup Cans II'' is a

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produced in 1969 by

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as part of his ''

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'' series that consists of 250 sets of 10 screenprints. This set is held by several notable museums. It differs from the preceding set of 1968 '' Campbell's Soup I'' screenprints and has variations within the series.

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Following ''Campbell's Soup I'' the prior year, Warhol produced 250 of this 10-piece set of screenprints. Warhol commented on his silkscreens saying "the reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do." The screenprints were produced in

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by the Salvatore Silkscreen Company. There are 26

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s signed in

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verso. The work is in several public collections including,

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, and the

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. The Museum of Modern Art credits Salvatore Silkscreen Company as the printer, while crediting Factory Additions as the publisher. They approximate the dimensions of each screenshot composition at on a sheet of , while the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago rounds these dimensions at . According to the Warhol-focussed Revolver Gallery, the cans of each individual screenshot are center-aligned with regularity and have more slogans and catch-phrases included than the set of cans in ''Campbell's Soup I''. These variations from the earlier screenprint series are most apparent in specific versions such as Hot Dog Bean, Vegetarian Vegetable, and Tomato-Beef Noodle O’s. Warhols use of

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detailing and light

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on the tin lids gives each can in this series uniqueness. , the record price for a screenprint from this series was the 2013 sale of ''Hot Dog Bean'' soup for $258,046 ($ in ) in

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. Following a falling out between Warhol and some former employees, the "Sunday B Morning" fiasco has led to unauthorized production of his work from his own intellectual property, including elements of this set. The set consists of ten prints: ''Tomato Beef Noodle O'', ''Chicken 'n Dumplings'', ''Vegetarian Vegetable'', ''Clam Chowder'', ''Old fashioned vegetable made with beef stock'', ''Scotch Broth'', ''Cheddar Cheese'', ''Oyster Stew'', ''Golden Mushroom'', and ''Hot Dog Bean''.

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