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''Small Torn Campbell's Soup Can (Pepper Pot),'' an early hand-painted work from 1962, will be auctioned at Christie's sale of postwar and contemporary art. In 1997 François Pinault, the luxury goods magnate who owns Christie's decided to auction ''Big Torn Campbell's Soup Can (Pepper Pot),'' also from 1962. To wrest it away from its archrival, Sotheby's, Christie's had to give Mr. Blum a guarantee that an undisclosed sum promised to a seller regardless of a sale's outcome.