Incollect Magazine - Issue 3

2022 Incollect Magazine 111 One of Andy Warhol’s monumental Piss Paintings (1978) hangs in Evan Lobel’s living room in Fort Lauderdale. Image courtesy of Lobel Modern. Panayiotou has seen an enormous increase in the value of his inventory. “Someone like Bansky has gone up about 2000% in the past couple of years,” he says. He also has Warhol works. “Warhol’s tomato soup cans prints of which there are 200 were selling for 14–15,000 pounds per print when I started collecting and today you would be hard pressed to get change out of a sale for about 130–140,000 pounds.” Warhol is the most popular of all the Pop artists and holds the record for the most expensive artwork sold at auction, $195 million for a blue Marilyn print/painting made of acrylic and of