Product type:
Pressure
Official lithograph produced by Banksy
Plate signed lower right
2017
This framed print by Banksy, titled “Tesco Value Tomato Soup Cans,” is an offset lithograph on woven paper, published by Pictures on Walls (POW). The work bears the Banksy signature in plate in the lower right of the print.
In 2005, Banksy carried out a notorious prank by secretly installing a painting of a Tesco Value soup can—a direct reference to Andy Warhol’s iconic Campbell’s Soup Cans—inside a gallery at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The intervention went unnoticed for six days and subsequently inspired a series of Tesco Value soup prints in the years that followed.
While Warhol celebrated the endless reproduction of consumer goods, Banksy offers a sharp critique of the supermarket giant Tesco, which has come to dominate the contemporary marketplace. Unlike Warhol’s variety of flavours, Banksy depicts multiple cans of the same flavour, highlighting the monotony and harsh reality of surviving on a tight budget.
Printed in three colours on a cream background, the work deliberately evokes a vintage aesthetic, now commonly employed by supermarkets such as Tesco to market British products. Printed and published in England by POW (Pictures on Walls), this work is out of print and no longer available.
According to POW, the edition size was 500 copies, though the prints were not numbered.
A very rare and highly collectible work.
