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the Catalogue Raisonné editors of the installation photographs from Stockholm and theexhibition tour, however, indicated that Kasper König’s 1994 account, in which heasserted that only cardboard boxes provided by the Brillo factory had been exhibited, wasprobably correct. In 2002, when the manuscript of Volume 2 of the Andy WarholCatalogue Raisonné was being prepared for publication, both Hultén and Olle Granathwere contacted by an editor of the Catalogue Raisonné. Hultén never directly respondedto questions concerning whether or not the boxes produced in 1968 had been included inthe exhibition. Granath confirmed König’s account, and informed the CatalogueRaisonné that the boxes produced in 1968 were made after the exhibition. 38Based on König and Granath’s respective accounts, when Volume 2 of theCatalogue Raisonné was published in 2004, it noted that Warhol’s Brillo Soap Pads boxsculptures were represented in the Stockholm exhibition and its tour by cardboard“facsimiles” that “functioned both as an exhibition set and as a prototype that was used toproduce a set of approximately one hundred wood boxes fabricated in Sweden at thistime.” Although the Catalogue Raisonné differed from Hultén on one point, concerningwhether or not the Brillo boxes produced in 1968 had been included in the Stockholmexhibition, no information or documentation had come to light as yet that would indicate38 Sally King-Nero, Executive Editor of Volume 2 of the Catalogue Raisonné, spoke bytelphone with Pontus Hultén on April 4, 2002 and with Olle Granath on May 15, 2002.Moreover, after two of the three boxes that Hultén had given him failed to sell atChristie’s, New York, on November 20, 1998, Granath wrote to Arch Gilles, thenPresident of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, noting: “A couple of yearsago at least one box from the same series belonging to Pontus Hultén was sold with acertificate from your foundation. It was probably imprudent of me not to ask you for thesame authorization.”(December 4, 1998) In early 1999, Granath submitted these twoboxes to the Andy Warhol Authentication Board. He subsequently sold the third box. Itsnew owner submitted the box to the Authentication Board in 2004. On none of theseoccasions, did Granath make any mention of the boxes that Hultén had produced in 1990.22