Leo Castelli (1907, born at Trieste as Ernest(o) Krauss (Krauss Ernő) – 1999) was an Austro-Hungarian art dealer. He was best known to the public for having been the first to sell Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup can paintings.
In 1957, he opened the "Leo Castelli Gallery" at NYC.
He was a patron of pop artists, like Jasper Johns, Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, etc.
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