Banksy - Saturday@Phillips London Friday, March 13, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Pictures on Walls, London

  • Catalogue Essay

    This work has been authenticated by Pest Control Office.

  • 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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Flying Copper

2004
Screenprint on paper.
100 x 70 cm. (39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in.)
Numbered lower edge. This work is from an edition of 600. This work has been authenticated by Pest Control Office.

Estimate
£2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for £2,250

Saturday@Phillips

14 Mar 2009, 12pm
London