Andy Warhol | Chanel No.5 (Red)

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) — Chanel No.5 (Red)

In 1985, Chanel commissioned Andy Warhol to create a series of works based on the iconic No.5 perfume bottle, a subject that aligned naturally with his long-standing interest in consumer products elevated to the status of cultural symbols. The project had precedent: Warhol had been fascinated by packaging and branding since his earliest Pop work of the 1960s, and Chanel No.5 — the most recognisable perfume in the world — offered the same combination of commercial ubiquity and aspirational luxury that had drawn him to Campbell’s soup tins and Brillo boxes two decades earlier.

This red colourway renders the bottle and its packaging in Warhol’s signature high-contrast palette, the flat ground and bold graphic treatment transforming an object of everyday desire into something closer to a heraldic emblem.

Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.

Print
56 × 70.5 cm (sheet); 66.5 × 82 cm (framed)