Andy Warhol: can of Campbell’s Tomato Soup, ca 1962

Before treatment, the soup can with leaking soup and a stained and damaged label....Read more

After treatment, the label and can are cleaned and contents replaced with a neutral material to emulate original weight....Read more

Before, the label has significant rancid tomato soup stains obscuring some of the inscription....Read more

After, the label is clean, and the staining removed. The artist’s inscriptions remain unchanged and visibility is im...Read more

Before, the staining is obscuring the printed information at the back of the label....Read more

After, the label printing is easily viewed and the original label adhesive remains original and unchanged during cleanin...Read more

Before, a detail of the signature, where stains are distracting and obscure some of Warhol’s inscription....Read more

After, the label can be viewed as originally intended....Read more

Before, major staining was present at label back and left....Read more

After, the label printing is clearly visible....Read more

During cleaning, the brown staining is being drawn out of the paper, into the aqueous cleaning preparation....Read more

After label removal, the can was opened using an opener specially designed to cut the side beneath the rim, keeping the ...Read more

The old soup was removed, the can thoroughly rinsed and sterilized. ...Read more

Prior to label attachment, the empty can was filled with paraffin wax to mimic the weight of the original soup contents....Read more