Soup Can (White/Orange/Raspberry)

Banksy’s original four-colour screenprint, Soup Cans, is a play on Andy Warhols now-infamous Pop Art Campbell’s Soup Cans. What Banksy has done, is taken the idea that commercial products can be art, as is the Pop Art ethos, but has rendered it in his tongue-in-cheek style with Tesco Value cans of cream of tomato soup (slightly less romantic than the nostalgia we now associate with Campbell’s).

This limited edition screenprint is one of Banksy’s most iconic, and came in four different variations (the number of cans featured on the print, and their colours vary).

Originally released in 2005 was the original was a single Soup Can. As a Banksy art, this piece is well-known and is regularly in demand; its relatively low edition size contributes to its desirability – there are just 50 Soup Can signed prints and 250 unsigned prints.

Next came the coloured variations of the Soup Can — still depicting a single can, these came in a total of 28 different colours, with 10 of each (making 280 prints in total), all of which were signed. Lastly, in 2006 came the Lazarides edition which featured four soup cans with gold tops. These came in two different varieties, grey paper or cream paper. There were 54 of the cream version, and 12 of the grey and all of them were signed.