Lot 116
  • 116

BANKSY | Keep it Real

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description

  • Banksy
  • Keep it Real
  • stencilled with the artist's name on the overturn edge; signed, dated 2002 and dedicated on the stretcher
  • acrylic and spray paint stencil on canvas
  • 35.5 by 28 cm. 14 by 11 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, United States (a gift from the artist)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Dragon Bar, Santa's Ghetto, December 2003 (example unknown)

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is brighter and lighter and the background tends more towards true white in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals a few faint rub marks and handling marks to the extreme edges and corner tips and a tiny media accretion towards the lower left corner. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultra violet light.
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Catalogue Note

“I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in the public: they forget that invisibility is a superpower” (Banksy cited in: Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Modern Contemporary Museum, Laugh Now, 2019, p. 135).

This work is accompanied by a Pest Control certificate.