This is one of my favorite affordable Warhol prints:
cgi.ebay.com/Andy-Warhol-Vote-McGovern-1972-sig-num_W0QQitemZ200316796804

The price on this auction is about average though and the condition isn't 100% so I wouldn't go much higher than the opening bid. But this print pops up time to time for under $5000 at auction houses. I guess not too many people want a picture of Nixon on their wall. Personally I like the colors and love the humour and irony in the message, one of Warhol's most Banksy like prints.

Im going to send a bid in for the beef one.

What sort of price do the soup cans go for?

>>>Would sell some/all of these insolent puppies should a realistically priced Warhol suppe come along<<<

There have been plenty on artnet as of late and am sure that both Christie's and Sotheby's will have a few in their upcoming April print auction. They've been getting bought in at $12k US with regularity as of late. If I were a buyer, I wouldn't pay more than $8k for anything other than Tomato which gets a hefty premium but nowhere near the $30-50k it once traded for. My *guess* is Tomato would cost you around $20k these days.

Looking to buy Warhol's 'Vesuvius'

If anyone has one or can lead me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it...

Thanks so much...

Great image...These guys may be near you....

www.hamiltonselway.com/warhol/vesuvius-365.html

LEE3 may be the man to ask - I know this one is right down the way from you photo, but lee seems to know his stuff with warhol and the likes

good luck pal

Thanks guys....

I've had a nice chunk of change set aside for one of these for some time now and thought I might have some luck on the forums.... The search continues, fingers crossed....

why in fucks name are you asking on the banksy.info board? Think many people here have a Warhol in the print portfolio under the bed?

a little independent research on the internet should help you, or perhaps speak to galleries and people who KNOW what they are talking about.

lazy

Uh, well I have a Warhol. And I have a friend who deals in Warhols prints. I actually sent him an email to see if he has a Vesuvius. I will PM you photoxtc if has one or knows of anywhere that does.

how much do his prints tend to cost?

Thanks so much snausages... ;D

Hamilton selway is a decent place but again their prices are high, not as sky high as Coskun or Martin Lawrence but high nonetheless. I have never seen any Warhol print dealer offering their wares for anywhere near the going rate at auction. Most are double to triple the price. Vesuvius is not a high demand print or canvas so you should have a lot of wiggle room here. However, Warhol did very well last week at the May auctions and I suspect that will give dealers more confidence in not lowering offer prices. I'd be patient and wait for it to come to auction later this summer or fall as there are 250 of these plus another 117 additional proofs. If you want to drop me a PM with your email address, i can reply with the auction history for this image.

Bottom line, the last one to trade from the edition of 250 sold for $16,250 in April, one of the trial proofs (edition of 57) went for $36k earlier that same month. Another from the edition of 250 went for $24k earlier in April and back in December one sold for $60k. Over the past 1.5 years the edition of 250 has come to auction about 10 times and traded at a low (most recently) of $16,250 and a high of $85k. I, personally, wouldn't pay more than $20-25k for one in mint condition in this climate if I absolutely had to have this image and I suspect you have little chance of getting a print dealer to agree to that price. However, it is obviously common at auction so you don't even need much patience to get it "on the cheap". Good luck

>>>What would the canvas cost ? I assume that it would be a large edditioned canvas too ?<<<

Each of the canvases are obviously "unique" save for the use of the variously sized silk screens. However, unlike Banksy who often #s his stencil editions, Warhol did no such thing so we have to wait until the catalog raisonne is printed and we have some idea about how many canvases were created with this image. There are nearly 200 Jackie's (from memory) but that doesn't make them any less important to my eyes and those cost $600k to $1 million each (there were none for sale last week so hard to say) down from $2.5M at the top. There were (again, from memory- so don't quote me as its been a while since i opened my copies of the raisonnes) around 20 of the 20x16 Marilyn's and the last one of those was nearly $30M while the previous one was $16M. So, "edition" while a factor isn't nearly as important as the desirability of the image itself or the size of the canvas it is on.

Back to your specific question, the Vesuvius canvases are of various sizes and one measuring 143x163cm sold for $1.3M in July '08 before the collapse of the market and I would guess is worth half of that at best today. There were 2 Vesuvius canvases (one large and one small) that went unsold at auction prior to that. If you go back 4 canvases, there was a nice one measuring 180x200cm that sold for $2.3M in October '06. There were various ones done on cardboard and some drawings of this image too and since this was done in '85, your guess is as good as mine as to how many there are. He had an army of people working for him by that point and since his catalog raisonne is only complete through '69, it's going to be many years until the stuff from '85 is released to the public. The last I heard the next edition '70-'73 is due out next year and that will include most of the Mao's. To give you an idea of how slowly the foundation is documenting and releasing his CR, the first edition ('61-'63) was published way back in '02. So, we may be lucky to see the edition covering '85 by 2025.