Coca-Cola [4] [Large Coca-Cola] , 1962

paintings

207.6 x 144.1 cm (81.73 x 56.73 in)

acrylic, pencil and letraset on canvas

signed and dated 62 on the reverse

Stable Gallery, New York Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hirsh, Beverly Hills (acquired circa 1962 – 1963)

Christie's, New York, November 8, 1983, lot 21

Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Oakland, Oakland Art Museum, Pop Art USA, September 1963, p. 55, illustrated Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, The Fellows - A Selection, March - April 1969 Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, Painting in New York, 1944 to 1969, November 1969 - January 1970, cat. no. 49, illustrated (titled Coke Bottle) New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; London, Hayward Gallery; Cologne, Museum Ludwig; Venice, Palazzo Grassi; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, February 1989 - September 1990, cat. no. 91, illustrated New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Guggenheim Museum and the Art of this Century, June - September 1992 New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Tradition of the New: Postwar Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Museum Collection, May - September 1994 Wolsburg, Kunstmuseum; Vienna, Kunsthalle; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Bilbao, Guggenheim; Oporto, Museu Serralves, Andy Warhol: A Factory, October 1998 - April 2000 (Wolfsburg only).

John Coplans, Andy Warhol, London, 1970, p. 44, illustrated Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, cat. no. 529, illustrated Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Warhol, 1971, fig. 29, p. 48, illustrated Hilton Kramer, "End of an 'Era' Andy Warhol," Encounter, September 1973, p. 50, illustrated Rainer Crone, Das Bildnerische Werk Andy Warhols, Berlin, 1976, cat. no. 879 Exh. Cat., Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Amerikaner: Kunst aus USA nach 1950. Eine didaktische Ausstellung: Bilder, 1977, p. 40, illustrated Bradford R. Collins, "The Metaphysic Nosejob: The Remaking of Warhola, 1960 – 1968", Arts Magazine, vol. 62, no. 2, February 1988, fig. 8, illustrated David Bourdon, Warhol, New York, 1989, pl. 76, illustrated Exh. Cat., New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center (and travelling), "Success is a job in New York.." : The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol, 1989, fig. no. 1c, illustrated Carter Ratcliff, "Andy Warhol: Pro and Contra," Art International, no. 7, Summer 1989, p. 75, illustrated Lynne Cooke, "The Independent Group: British and American Pop Art, a 'Palimpcestuous' Legacy," in Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik, Modern Art and Popular Culture: Readings in High & Low, New York, 1990, fig. 219, illustrated Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Andy Warhol System: Pub, Pop, Rock, Jouy-en-Josas, 1990, p. 30, illustrated (cropped image) Hector Obalk, Andy Warhol n'est pas un grand artiste, Paris, 1990, p. 29, illustrated Marc Le Bot, "Andy Warhol: Le dandysme aujourd'hui," Colóquio Artes, vol. 32, no. 87, December 1990, p. 50, illustrated Lothar Romain, Andy Warhol, Munich, 1993, no. 48, illustrated Trewin Copplestone, The Life and Works of Andy Warhol, Avonmouth, 1995, p. 12, illustrated Carter Ratcliff, The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art, New York, 1996, fig. no. 57, illustrated Philippe Trétiack, Warhol's America, London, 1997, illustrated Exh. Cat., Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, Twentieth Century American Art: the Ebsworth Collection, 2000, p. 268, fig. 1, illustrated in color Georg Frei and Neil Printz, eds., Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculpture 1961-1963, Volume 1, New York, 2002, cat. no.