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The Museum of Modern Art acquired Andy Warhol's 32-panel of Campbell's Soup Cans from Irving Blum, the dealer, for $15 million, then one of the highest prices ever paid for a work of contemporary art. Mr. Blum, who has been auctioning many of his important Pop Art holdings in recent years, has owned this work since 1967. To wrest it away from its archrival, Sotheby's, Christie's had to give Mr. Blum a guarantee, at an undisclosed sum promised to a seller regardless of a sale's outcome.