Artists

...I wish I had that one.

The car depicted in the painting is the Gilbert “Magu” Luján car. Magu was one of the original Chicano Art pioneers.

One of Germs' collectors was able to acquire the car after it had basically disappeared and then reappeared on Ebay after the passing of Magu. It was in bad shape, so he had the car restored, and loaned it to the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles as part of their Low Rider show. He also commissioned Germs to do a Germs-style painting of the Magu car, which was then sent around the world on a global museum tour.





Too bad you passed on the pop art prints back in the day, but at least you got one.

My greatest regret was allowing an actual Campbell's Soup Can drawing by Andy Warhol - signed and dated 1974 on a page of my 8 x 10 drawing pad from art school - to completely deteriorate into literally a frayed, torn, almost completely faded, stained with ink (my loony art student girlfriend threw a bottle of ink at me, but hit the Warhol instead) total piece of shit. Ten or so years ago, a similar Warhol drawing on paper, exactly like mine, was worth $10,000.