Andy Warhol's famous Soup Can sold

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:31 pm

NEW YORK (AP) - An early iconoclastic work by Andy Warhol of a Campbell's soup can has sold for $11.7 million at auction.

The Christie's sale of postwar and contemporary art Tuesday night also saw spirited bidding for three other early Warhol works.

"Small Torn Campbell's Soup Can (Pepper Pot)," a hand-painted work from 1962 showing a large soup can with a torn label, was purchased by Manhattan dealer Larry Gagosian, Christie's said, reportedly for Los Angeles collector and financier Eli Broad.

It was consigned to the auction by Los Angeles art dealer Irving Blum, the auction house said, and had been estimated to sell for $10 million to $15 million.

Warhol's "S&H Green Stamps (64 S&H Green Stamps)," another work done in 1962, was sold to an unidentified telephone bidder for $5.1 million, after five people tried to buy it. It had been estimated to sell for $1.5 million.

The pop artist's silk screen portrait, "Brigitte Bardot," reportedly consigned by German industrialist Gunter Sachs who married the film sex siren in the 1960s, went for $3 million to another telephone bidder. And an unidentified Asian dealer fetched Warhol's 1964 "Flowers," a grouping of 16 silk screens, for $3.9 million, the auction house said. All sale prices include a buyer's premium of 20 percent of the first $200,000 and 12 percent thereafter.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:10 pm

It just goes to show you how STUPID the American consumer is. How anyone can consider his work "art" is beyond me.

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Wed May 10, 2006 4:18 pm

All depends on the person viewing and their knowledge of art history I think.

Some consider the creation of smilies as art. Fine art? Doubtful, but they consider it an art none-the-less.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:37 pm

I wont say its not art, but to me it was always more pop culture. I wouldnt hang any of his stuff in my house but hey what do I know ?

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:41 pm

Nor would I Nomad, but then again I wouldn't hang a Botticelli, Picasso or a Da Vinci either and they're a handful of the most famous artists in history.

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:46 pm

it's actually pop art, which is just another movement like renaissance.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:05 pm

Amie wrote: Nor would I Nomad, but then again I wouldn't hang a Botticelli, Picasso or a Da Vinci either and they're a handful of the most famous artists in history.

Da Vinci ? Really ? Cmon, what about his sketches ? Some of his sketches are very interesting.

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:22 pm

Nomad wrote: Da Vinci ? Really ? Cmon, what about his sketches ? Some of his sketches are very interesting.

I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than look at that every day, as interesting as they may be, every day? No thank you!

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:30 pm

Amie wrote: I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than look at that every day, as interesting as they may be, every day? No thank you!

Well you sound very anti Da Vinci if your willing to push a pin into your eyeball. I wont bring it up again. Are you frothing ?

Amie · Post by **Amie** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:36 pm

:wah::wah: not yet, but one more post and we could have been heading somewhere frothy. :sneaky:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:47 pm

So Dali is off limits too ?:eek:

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:49 pm

I'd hang a Botticelli...