Andy Warhol's Iconic Campbell's Soup Can Painting Sells for $11.7 Million
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}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.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}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.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}All sale prices include a buyer's premium of 20 percent of the first $200,000 and 12 percent thereafter.