Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans II: Vegetarian Vegetable 56 (1969) is from the artist’s Campbell’s Soup Cans II portfolio 1969. The collection is a sequel to his first Campbell’s Soup Cans portfolio from 1968, with ten additional prints, featuring the more interesting flavours. The new collection has the same trademark design but with the addition of Warhol’s new graphics - they add a small flare to his original design and represent the final development of his original soup can paintings.

Campbell’s Soup Can II are all real flavours of Campbell’s Soup.

Warhol originally created the imagery in 1962 as a series of paintings, for his seminal exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. The artist told interviewers that the idea came about because he spent 20 years eating a tin of Campbell’s Tomato soup everyday for lunch, before he was able to afford the cost of dining out.

“I used to drink it [Campbell’s Soup]. I used to have the same lunch every day, for twenty years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.”

The Soup Can sets remained Andy Warhol’s favourites of all that he produced throughout his career.

Screenprinting heartbeat of his oeuvre. He handpainted the original Campbell’s Soup Can, but the development of screenprinting changed everything and was his preferred medium of artistic creation.