[G-Man]

Great post

[weeble]

This one here....



...it used to be hanging on a wall in a bar in the centre of Bristol. Can't remember what bar it was though. It was huge!! And I think they had it behind a sheet of perspex. Long time ago now. Anyone know what happened to this one? Know of its whereabouts?

[cashman]

Feb 23, 2009 15:24:38 GMT 1 jules said:

That shark and goldfish acrylic sold recently from a London Gallery,
ironically titled something like "The painting that everybody says they want to buy but never do...", it went for 6 figs easy apparently.
J

its only ironic now, it was titled that beacause nobody would buy it at the time.....some great pieces in there

[BK83]

I'm more excited to lesroy back on the forum!

[chrisps303]

Feb 23, 2009 18:39:17 GMT 1 BK83 said:

I'm more excited to lesroy back on the forum!

This is an old thread from 2007 dragged back up the forum.

[gerry]

Feb 23, 2009 17:57:44 GMT 1 weeble said:

This one here....



...it used to be hanging on a wall in a bar in the centre of Bristol. Can't remember what bar it was though. It was huge!! And I think they had it behind a sheet of perspex. Long time ago now. Anyone know what happened to this one? Know of its whereabouts?

Yep, the bar (The River just up from the Watershed on Bristol harbourside) sold it a couple of years ago, perhaps more recently than that. Someone had tried to burn it with a lighter when drunk apparently, but it was restored ok.

That rat on yellow is still in Bristol, but has long since been buried beneath stickers. The 'you love it you slags' isn't Banksy as far as i know. Never been attributed to him anyway.

[dodge]

Great post. Hadn't seen loads of those pieces, especially some of the canvasses. Wish I had some of them!

[neale]

Brilliant post, some fantastic images, especially love the heavy weaponry

[pezlow]

Great thread. Where did lesroy go

[Wearology]

After several months of non stop threads about religion , politics and money it is so refreshing to see a post like this one - great job
I am more obsessed with Banksy today that I was yesterday. Thanks for the post - G.d Bless Sir banksy

[bigwilly]

thank you so much

awesome post

[jB]

Feb 23, 2009 21:10:53 GMT 1 pezlow said:

Great thread. Where did lesroy go

and bongo!?

[Mish Mash]

Cheers for that. Great pics

[xtinaw]

Awesome find! I am so gutted I didn't know about that Sevenshed show. I only lived 2 mins away from it back then... probably shouldn't have spent so much time getting drunk as a student. Maybe I would have known then. I lived right by his freehand piece on Welshback. Didn't occur to me at the time to take pics! I love the shark canvas.

[Pattycakes]

The Sharks was sold privately by Bloomsbury Auctions in January 08, it was then apparently sold on again by Andipa at his show in April last year - who knows where it is now though (well I suppose Andipa does) Nice painting though.

[20/20]

Feb 23, 2009 16:52:53 GMT 1 lee3 said:

The other one that was new to me also happened to be the the best example that I have ever seen of avon and somerset constabulary; maybe I'm just sucker for red.

I'm quite surprised at that lee. I'd not seen that version before either, but though it was missing the punchline (compared to the blue one that sold last year where the tag is actually hiding behind the police).

Possibly one of my fave B pieces of all time, it's so simple.

[lee3]

>>>I'm quite surprised at that lee. I'd not seen that version before either, but though it was missing the punchline (compared to the blue one that sold last year where the tag is actually hiding behind the police).

Possibly one of my fave B pieces of all time, it's so simple.<<<

I'm not a huge fan of the image myself but that's what makes art fun for all folks. You're in luck if this is one of your favorite images as aside from the blue one you copied above which sold for 96k GBP, the past 2 have both been bought in on different shades of pink (with the tag stenciled behind the coppers) at 50 and 30k GBP. The one for 30 was much larger than the other two (76 cm sq as opposed to 60 cm sq) and was bought in way back in July so its price has only come down SIGNIFICANTLY since then.

[buffin]

Mar 2, 2009 15:29:16 GMT 1 20/20 said:

Feb 23, 2009 16:52:53 GMT 1 lee3 said:

The other one that was new to me also happened to be the the best example that I have ever seen of avon and somerset constabulary; maybe I'm just sucker for red.

I'm quite surprised at that lee. I'd not seen that version before either, but though it was missing the punchline (compared to the blue one that sold last year where the tag is actually hiding behind the police).

Possibly one of my fave B pieces of all time, it's so simple.

I thought the punchline was the Avon policeman looking through his binoculars properly and the Somerset (rural area) policeman gazing at the sky but perhaps I'm reading too much into it!
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[nex]

the amount of work Banksy has put out in the last 10 years puts every other street artist to shame

[bazzj04]

Loads of great stuff in that link

[erzengel]

Amazing. Most of the canvases I have never seen before. Specially love the shark one.