Embossed signature and edition number on the base, with an “M” stamp.
Minor scratches and stains in places.

Publisher: Tanglewood Press, Inc., New York

One of the most iconic pop artists of twentieth-century America, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) began his career as a commercial illustrator. By mass-producing images and symbols of popular culture, such as Campbell’s soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, through silkscreen printing, he questioned the structure of modern communal illusion through the very definition of art.
This work is part of the 7 Objects in a Box series created in 1966, a three-dimensional piece made by silkscreen printing on Plexiglas (acrylic sheet). During this period, Warhol was experimenting with pushing beyond the two-dimensionality of painting, presenting objects themselves as art. The choice of transparent plexiglass as a material allows the image to appear to float, shifting in expression depending on the angle and light. Andy Warhol repeatedly returned to the motif of “the kiss,” which functions as a sign of love and desire within popular culture, allowing its image to drift. By transferring an intimate act onto an industrial material, this work distills a central question of Pop Art: the blurring of the boundary between emotion and commercialism. The limited edition of 75 also embodies Warhol’s eternal theme of “reproduction and singularity.”