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A dense grid of identical Tesco Value cream of tomato soup cans with white, blue and red labels and blue-and-white striped bands, arranged in upright rows filling the composition.

Banksy's repeating grid of Tesco Value cream of tomato soup cans restages Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans, exchanging an emblem of American post-war consumer affluence for a British supermarket's no-frills own-brand. The multiplied cans can be read as a wry comment on branding, cheapness and consumer culture.

Materials
Offset Lithograph
Size
33 1/10 × 23 1/5 in | 84 × 59 cm
Rarity
Unknown edition
Medium
Ephemera or Merchandise
Signature
Signed in plate
Certificate of authenticity
Included (issued by gallery)
Frame
Not included

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Banksy

British, b. 1974

Banksy is an anonymous British artist whose stencilled images first appeared on the walls of Bristol in the 1990s before spreading to London and to cities around the world. His work pairs a blunt graphic style with pointed commentary on war, policing, consumer culture, surveillance and the art market itself. The authenticated screenprints, released in signed and unsigned editions through Pictures on Walls and later…

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