1 00:00:02,533 --> 00:00:06,700 GUEST: It was a gift from my ex-husband, right before he left me. He gave me a birthday present, 2 00:00:06,700 --> 00:00:10,866 and this was it. Best thing he ever gave me, actually. I know that it was probably purchased 3 00:00:10,866 --> 00:00:15,866 in Philadelphia, and it probably cost around $1,800. I received it in 2005. 4 00:00:17,866 --> 00:00:22,233 APPRAISER: It's actually a color screen print by Warhol from the first Campbell's Soup series 5 00:00:22,233 --> 00:00:23,733 that he did in 1968. 6 00:00:23,733 --> 00:00:25,800 GUEST: What? 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,433 APPRAISER: Which is a set of ten different soup cans, all Campbell's Soup cans. 8 00:00:29,433 --> 00:00:31,500 GUEST: Wow, okay. 9 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:35,566 APPRAISER: And these are based on a 1962 painted series that he had done and first exhibited 10 00:00:36,466 --> 00:00:38,033 at Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. 11 00:00:38,033 --> 00:00:40,133 GUEST: Okay. 12 00:00:40,133 --> 00:00:43,233 APPRAISER: Just as he was shifting from his career as an advertising artist in New York 13 00:00:43,233 --> 00:00:44,633 to more of a fine artist. 14 00:00:44,633 --> 00:00:46,666 GUEST: Mm-hmm. 15 00:00:46,666 --> 00:00:50,600 APPRAISER: And Warhol got on the map and became a famous artist through his appropriation 16 00:00:51,366 --> 00:00:52,066 of everyday images. 17 00:00:52,066 --> 00:00:54,033 GUEST: Right. 18 00:00:54,033 --> 00:00:57,866 APPRAISER: In this case, Campbell's Soup. And he said that one of the reasons he chose 19 00:00:57,866 --> 00:01:02,300 Campbell's Soup early on is because, as a kid growing up in Pittsburgh... 20 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:04,233 GUEST: (chuckles) 21 00:01:04,233 --> 00:01:05,266 APPRAISER: ...He was fed Campbell's Soup and ate Campbell's Soup all the time. 22 00:01:05,266 --> 00:01:07,400 GUEST: Makes sense. 23 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,566 APPRAISER: So he made a, a set of ten different subjects, ten different soups, in the first 24 00:01:10,566 --> 00:01:15,566 Campbell's Soup series, number one, in 1968. These were done in an edition of 250, each 25 00:01:17,533 --> 00:01:21,433 of the prints, and each of them are signed in ballpoint pen and ink and numbered with 26 00:01:22,166 --> 00:01:23,133 a rubber ink stamp. 27 00:01:23,133 --> 00:01:25,133 GUEST: Right. 28 00:01:25,133 --> 00:01:26,600 APPRAISER: And you can see that on the back of this image, because the mat is nicely cut 29 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:27,833 out... 30 00:01:27,833 --> 00:01:29,800 GUEST: Somebody cut it out, right. 31 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,933 APPRAISER: Now, he was very well known when these were made, and the reason why he made 32 00:01:31,933 --> 00:01:35,800 them in the late '60s, based on a painted series from the early '60s, is that he could 33 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,800 make multiple images of them, and, using screen print, run off a lot, and ten times 250, you 34 00:01:42,533 --> 00:01:45,466 have 2,500 prints to be sold from this series. So... 35 00:01:45,466 --> 00:01:47,533 GUEST: Not bad, yeah. 36 00:01:47,533 --> 00:01:50,300 APPRAISER: Cashing in on his growing popularity. I found this one interesting, too, because 37 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:55,266 up here, on the accent above the "E" on "consommé," you can see the pattern of 38 00:01:56,933 --> 00:01:59,166 the white screen. That's actually white ink on that, and you can see... 39 00:01:59,166 --> 00:02:00,666 GUEST: Oh, my God, oh, yeah, yeah. 40 00:02:00,666 --> 00:02:01,466 APPRAISER: ...how it's crisscrossing with the red. 41 00:02:01,466 --> 00:02:03,500 GUEST: Wow, cool. 42 00:02:03,500 --> 00:02:07,200 APPRAISER: These were printed in New York and published through Warhol's publishing 43 00:02:08,066 --> 00:02:08,733 outfit called Factory Additions. 44 00:02:08,733 --> 00:02:10,800 GUEST: Mmm. 45 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,433 APPRAISER: Even though he was well known at the time, a lot of people viewed these as, 46 00:02:14,433 --> 00:02:18,666 as... prints and sort of common images, not of great value. 47 00:02:18,666 --> 00:02:20,300 GUEST: What did he sell them for originally? 48 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:21,900 APPRAISER: Originally, a couple of hundred dollars 49 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:23,933 GUEST: A couple hundred of dollars? Yeah, wow. 50 00:02:23,933 --> 00:02:28,166 APPRAISER: Or the whole set for maybe $1,000? A lot were put on the wall, and from the late 51 00:02:30,133 --> 00:02:33,466 '60s on to today, have lost their color, have been damaged, so... The surface of a screen 52 00:02:34,766 --> 00:02:36,400 print is very susceptible to scratching... 53 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,133 GUEST: Gotcha. 54 00:02:38,133 --> 00:02:40,733 APPRAISER: ...and bends in the paper and breaks. Yours is in great shape. 55 00:02:40,733 --> 00:02:41,966 GUEST: Really? 56 00:02:41,966 --> 00:02:42,966 APPRAISER: Yes, on a scale of one to ten... 57 00:02:42,966 --> 00:02:43,966 GUEST: Good. 58 00:02:43,966 --> 00:02:44,966 APPRAISER: Ten being the best... 59 00:02:44,966 --> 00:02:46,633 GUEST: Right. 60 00:02:46,633 --> 00:02:47,866 APPRAISER: You're about eight-and-a-half, maybe nine with this one. 61 00:02:47,866 --> 00:02:49,533 GUEST: Well, and it's been on a wall. 62 00:02:49,533 --> 00:02:51,300 APPRAISER: But you've kept it, you've kept it out of the sunlight. 63 00:02:51,300 --> 00:02:53,366 GUEST: It was on the right wall-- right, yeah, I did, I did. 64 00:02:53,366 --> 00:02:56,033 APPRAISER: So what would you guess? What would you say is a, is a value? 65 00:02:56,033 --> 00:02:59,966 GUEST: (sighs): I am, I am clueless, because, I mean-- and part of it is what you were explaining, 66 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,533 like, there were original paintings, and then there's this series of prints and that series 67 00:03:04,533 --> 00:03:08,533 of prints. So, I don't know where this fits in. I'm really clueless. 68 00:03:08,533 --> 00:03:12,333 APPRAISER: I'd never heard of divorce gifts, either. Is that... That's a new thing for 69 00:03:12,333 --> 00:03:14,000 me. 70 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,033 GUEST: It was a birthday gift right before the, right before he left. 71 00:03:16,033 --> 00:03:18,100 APPRAISER: Okay. 72 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:19,533 GUEST: I think, maybe, we call it a guilt gift or something, I don't know. 73 00:03:19,533 --> 00:03:21,200 APPRAISER: Guilt gift, I like that one-- go with that. 74 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,266 GUEST: Yeah. 75 00:03:23,266 --> 00:03:27,200 APPRAISER: In this condition, great shape, I would put a replacement value of $50,000. 76 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:32,866 GUEST: What? Come on. That's crazy. My goodness, I don't... I'm speechless. (shudders): I don't 77 00:03:35,033 --> 00:03:36,533 know what to say. 78 00:03:36,533 --> 00:03:40,366 APPRAISER: The more common the soup-- take tomato soup? 79 00:03:40,366 --> 00:03:41,366 GUEST: Right. 80 00:03:41,366 --> 00:03:42,366 APPRAISER: That's a $75,000... 81 00:03:42,366 --> 00:03:43,900 GUEST: Isn't it interesting? 82 00:03:43,900 --> 00:03:45,166 APPRAISER: $80,000 print, because it's tomato soup. 83 00:03:45,166 --> 00:03:46,400 GUEST: That's the iconic one, right. 84 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:46,533 APPRAISER: That's the iconic soup.