An Andy Warhol for... 50 cents?

Yup.

That's how much each of the four Warhol-esque Campbell Soup cans pictured above cost when you purchased them at Giant Eagle Supermarkets in Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania this past April.

The company made 75,000 sets of four (you had to buy a set for $2 - no individual cans were sold).

They're real cans of tomato soup, by the way.

Anyhow, some have ended up at Howdy Do, a store in Manhattan (72 East Seventh Street [First Avenue] in the East Village, tel. 212-979-1618).

There they've been marked up 1,000% - to $20 for a set of four.

Once those're gone, it's eBay time.

Oh, yeah: just so's you have a yardstick for these things: a 20" x 16" 1962 painting on canvas by Warhol of a Campbell's Soup Can was sold at auction by Christie's last year for $2,415,500.

[via Marianne Rohrlich and the New York Times]