Online Auction: 10–17 September 2021 • 2:00 PM BST • London
S otheby’s exceedingly popular dedicated Banksy auction will be open for bidding from 10-17 September. This autumn sale will survey the mysterious artist’s most sought-after and emblematic screenprints. Iconic subjects, such as Girl with Balloon, will be offered alongside vibrant impressions of Choose Your Weapon and his Warholian Kate Moss.
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Banksy Exhibition History
- 2002
- December 2002
- July 2003
- September 2006
- October 2006
- November 2010
- July 2020
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Girl With BalloonLater immortalised by the highly sought-after edition of screenprints, Banksy’s beloved Girl With Balloon appeared for the first time as a mural, stencilled on the walls under Waterloo Bridge at London’s Southbank in 2002. -
Santa’s GhettoDescribed as a ‘squat art concept store’, Santa’s Ghetto was Banksy’s yearly Christmas pop-up exhibition. During each of the exhibitions, Banksy published a number of new editions, such as Happy Choppers and Jack and Jill.
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Turf WarBanksy’s first major solo show took place in a disused warehouse in East London. Dubbed, ‘one of England's best - and briefest - shows this season’, it was on for two days before the police shut it down. A pivotal moment in the artist’s career – it was here that he debuted the subjects that would later become some of his seminal works, including Laugh Now and Toxic Mary.
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Barely LegalBarely Legal took place in September 2006; it marked the artist’s first large-scale exhibition in the United States. For the occasion, Banksy created a set of six works that were baptised: the Barely Legal Print Set, including Sale Ends. The show revealed the artist’s social and political criticism and his mockery of consumerist society most particularly.
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Crude OilsIn 2006, Banksy exhibited a group of works playing on paintings of iconic artists such as Claude Monet and Andy Warhol. This “Gallery of re-mixed masterpieces, vandalism and vermin” opened its doors for just a few days in London’s Notting Hill, featuring Banksy’s Kate Moss as the 21st century’s Marilyn Monroe.
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Marks & StencilsBanksy’s Choose your Weapon screenprint was among the highlights of this pop up exhibition posing as a familiar high street store. The stencil, an homage to fellow street artist Keith Haring, first appeared and promptly disappeared just a month prior in the streets of London.
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If you don’t mask – you don’t getAs London descended into lockdown, an underground train was covered in stencils of rats wearing masks, raising awareness about the COVID-19 pandemic. Once again Banksy employed vermin imagery to spread the word, just as he did with the iconic Love Rat in 2004.
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