Remember Andy Warhol? His paintings are back in the news:
Almost 50 years ago the quintessential New York artist, Andy Warhol, had his first one-man show in Los Angeles, thanks to the prescience of a West Coast art dealer named Irving Blum.
Blum also had the uncanny foresight to snap up “Campbell’s Soup Cans,” 32 small canvases for $1,000. He would eventually sell the group for $15 million.
You can read the rest @
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-08-11/warhol-s-100-soup-earned-canny-dealer-15-million-returns-to-los-angeles
Another set of these paintings was just stolen from a Springfield, MO museum. You can read about it here:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/art-lover-or-soup-lover-fbi-seeking-thief-who-stole/article_07343567-30b9-5b15-a735-b31b5b258c29.html
This set of 10 paintings allegedly is worth $500,000. Not bad for a few cans of soup.
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