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the Catalogue Raisonné edi<strong>to</strong>rs of the installation pho<strong>to</strong>graphs from S<strong>to</strong>ckholm and theexhibition <strong>to</strong>ur, however, indicated that Kasper König’s 1994 account, in which heasserted that only cardboard <strong>boxes</strong> provided by the Brillo fac<strong>to</strong>ry 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 edi<strong>to</strong>r of the Catalogue Raisonné. Hultén never directly responded<strong>to</strong> questions concerning whether or not the <strong>boxes</strong> produced in 1968 had been included inthe exhibition. Granath confirmed König’s account, and informed the CatalogueRaisonné that the <strong>boxes</strong> 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 S<strong>to</strong>ckholm exhibition and its <strong>to</strong>ur by cardboard“facsimiles” that “functioned both as an exhibition set and as a pro<strong>to</strong>type that was used <strong>to</strong>produce a set of approximately one hundred wood <strong>boxes</strong> fabricated in Sweden at thistime.” Although the Catalogue Raisonné differed from Hultén on one point, concerningwhether or not the Brillo <strong>boxes</strong> produced in 1968 had been included in the S<strong>to</strong>ckholmexhibition, no information or documentation had come <strong>to</strong> light as yet that would indicate38 Sally King-Nero, Executive Edi<strong>to</strong>r 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 <strong>boxes</strong> that Hultén had given him failed <strong>to</strong> sell atChristie’s, New York, on November 20, 1998, Granath wrote <strong>to</strong> 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 <strong>to</strong> Pontus Hultén was sold with acertificate from your foundation. It was probably imprudent of me not <strong>to</strong> ask you for thesame authorization.”(December 4, 1998) In early 1999, Granath submitted these two<strong>boxes</strong> <strong>to</strong> the Andy Warhol Authentication Board. He subsequently sold the third box. Itsnew owner submitted the box <strong>to</strong> the Authentication Board in 2004. On none of theseoccasions, did Granath make any mention of the <strong>boxes</strong> that Hultén had produced in 1990.22