Name: Soup Can
Brand: Banksy
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of Banksy’s Soup Can (signed) is estimated to be worth between £24,000 and £35,000. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £23,782 in October 2022 to £62,000 in October 2021. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. This is a rare artwork with an auction history of 14 total sales since its initial entry to the market in July 2009. The edition size of this piece is limited to 50.

Meaning & Analysis

Banksy’s original four-colour screen print, Soup Can, is a play on Andy Warhol's now-infamous Pop Art Campbell’s Soup Cans. Published in 2005, this signed screen print was released in a limited edition of 50 alongside an unsigned edition of 250.

As Pop Art with from the 1960s, Banksy has taken the image of the commercial product into the realm of art, but has transported it into a 21st century cultural context and ironic style using a Tesco tomato soup can - far less romantic than the nostalgia we now associate with Campbell’s.

The limited edition screen print 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 the original was a single Soup Can. The edition was of 250 unsigned screen prints. This Soup Can features a single can and the original blue-red-white colour palette.