Banksy - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Artist Biography

    Banksy

    British • 1975 - N/A

    Anonymous street artist Banksy first turned to graffiti as a miserable fourteen year old disillusioned with school. Inspired by the thriving graffiti community in his home city, Bristol, Banksy's works began appearing on trains and walls in 1993, and by 2001 his blocky, spray-painted works had cropped up all over the United Kingdom. Typically crafting his images with spray paint and cardboard stencils, Banksy is able to achieve a meticulous level of detail. His aesthetic is clean and instantly readable due to his knack for reducing complex political and social statements to simple visual elements.

    His graffiti, paintings and screenprints use whimsy and humour to satirically critique war, capitalism, hypocrisy and greed — with not even the Royal family safe from his anti-establishment wit.

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Queen Vic

2003
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins.
I. 26 3/8 x 18 3/8 in. (67.1 x 46.8 cm)
S. 27 5/8 x 19 3/4 in. (70.2 x 50.1 cm)

Numbered 87/500 in pencil, an unsigned impression (the first 50 of the edition were signed), published by Pictures on Walls, London, with the accompanying Certificate of Authenticity issued by Pest Control, unframed.

Estimate
$20,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $35,280

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 19-21 October 2021