...and then Germs did the painting.
Warhol story is, I was on lunch break on my first day in art school in Chicago.
I took a walk around the area, and came upon a bookstore where Andy was sitting on a chair in the window (facing the inside of the store, so I saw Andy's back and hair) with an assistant. People were standing in line with a copy of Andy's new book (this was 1974), and he was signing them by drawing a Soup Can with his signature and the year. I stood in line with my sketchbook, which was brand new, unused, and when I got to the front of the line, handed the sketchbook to the assistant, who handed it to Andy, and he did a full page Soup Can with signature and year. The book was almost half the size, compared to my sketchbook page, so I had the superior version of anybody buying the book, for free, without having to buy the book.
When I went back to art school after lunch, everybody was astounded that I had an "original Warhol" on the first page of my sketchbook.
I dropped out of art school after two years and went to Los Angeles, where I have been trapped, ever since, working as a "commercial artist" while producing and releasing all sorts of music hardly anybody has heard.
Your top picture looks very familiar to me, pretty sure I've seen it in a book I have, but not sure where the book is. That's the 20 dollar one, right? I like that Chagall image a lot!
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