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

Track auction value trend

The value of Banksy's Soup Can (unsigned) is estimated to be worth between £12,500 and £19,000. This screenprint, created in 2005, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This work has an auction history of 34 total sales since its entry to the market on 12th October 2016. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £13,000 across 1 units sold. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £13,000 in October 2024 to £60,334 in August 2020, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 250.

Meaning & Analysis

In 2005, Banksy produced a limited edition of 250 unsigned screen prints called Soup Can, revisiting Andy Warhol's famous serialized soup cans. The print features a Tesco Value soup can, mocking greedy corporations and critiquing the consumerism Warhol celebrated.

Banksy’s original four-colour screen print, Soup Can, is a play on Andy Warhol's now-infamous Pop Art Campbell’s Soup Cans. 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.

This 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).