Andy Warhol and Victor Hugo at the Castelli Gallery opening of his Hammer & Sickle paintings, 1/11/1977
[Warhol] had reduced one of the most feared symbols on the planet to a simple still life… Why, he even painted the Hammer and Sickle in situ
large ones with a sponge mop, like a Midwestern housewife with an apple pie in the oven. In fact, I chose a sickle that had the word “Champion” on it, but the whole series could have just as easily read “Made in the U.S.A.” Ronnie Cutrone, 2004