[adrscib]

25-April... Knightsbridge

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Portrait is amazing, other lots being auctioned, please someone put them on forum as I dont know if I manage to upload

Lot No: 40AR
(n/a) Banksy (British, b.1975)
Self-Portrait
stencil signature 'BANKSY' (lower right), oil and spray paint on canvas laid to board
122 x 122cm (48 1/16 x 48 1/16in).
unframed

Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000
Footnote:
Provenance: Purchased Severnshed Exhibition, Bristol, 2000.
Illustrated Tristan Manco, 'Stencil Graffiti', Thames and Hudson, p.79.

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Lot No: 207AR
Banksy (British, b.1975)
Untitled, TV Girl
spray paint on sheet metal
160 x 88cm (63 x 34 5/8in).

Estimate: £10,000 - 15,000
Footnote:
September 2003 saw the launch of the Observer Music Monthly magazine with Blur scheduled to appear on the front cover. Following the success of their Think Tank album, the band were keen to commission Banksy again and approached him to design the backdrop for their photoshoot.

The interview and shoot were arranged but were beset with problems from the start. To quote the Observer, 'A date was set for the afternoon of the group's headlining performance at the Leeds Festival but that almost fell through as two days before the shoot Banksy went awol. It later transpired that he had been arrested in Berlin for defacing a building.'

Once he had arrived the festival's rural setting provided further problems- there were no obvious structures for Banksy to use as a blank canvas for his works. The issue was resolved by a neighbouring farmer who was happy to grant permission for the artist to work on his property. Banksy produced three works, one, depicting a TV launched through a broken window, was used on the magazine cover with the band appearing below. It was painted on a brick wall. The second image, also a TV, and the present lot were painted on the doors of the adjoining duck shed. When the duck shed was recently renovated the owner's salvaged part of the doors, and have consigned them for entry into this sale.

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Lot No: 298AR
(n/a) Banksy (British, b.1975)
Think Tank
spray paint on steel
182 x 157cm (71 5/8 x 61 13/16in).

Estimate: £20,000 - 30,000
Footnote:
The following two lots were part of a series of designs commissioned by Blur for the cover of their Think Tank album.

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Lot No: 299AR
Banksy (British, b.1975)
Space girl and bird
spray paint on steel
133 x 54cm (52 3/8 x 21 1/4in).

Estimate: £10,000 - 15,000
Footnote:
Both this and previous lot were part of a series of designs commissioned by Blur for the cover of their Think Tank album. This work featured on the cover of the band's 5 track CD issued by the Observer Newspaper.

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[lesroy]

I absolutley love the first one... the self portrait

I also reckon the estimates for all of these will be blown out of the water... they seem very cautious?!

[corblimeylimey]

Excellent find adrscib, I agree lesroy they're bound to go for more.

[romanywg]

They're all really nice and bound to blow those estimates out of the water I would think.

Self portrait. There is more to this but can't seem to copy it for some reason.

[lesroy]

Here you go Roman...

[manchestermike]

The Micallef that was on Camp Babs for ages is up too

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[romanywg]

How much was it on CB?

[tomhills1]

that self-portrait is awesome. i've never seen it before but would say it has to be one of the finest canvasses he's ever done. always on the piss-take that banksy. awesome.

[Cocteau 101]

I am haven't that! The company bonus can go to f***
I've been waiting for a big one and been pissing in the wind buying unsigned prints here and there.
This is the real deal, I'm booking a place that is the best Banksy I have ever seen.

[tomhills1]

assuming you get lucky, i feel i should apologise right now for standing at your window 24/7, dribbling and crying in equal measure.

£75k upwards in my opinion

[Cocteau 101]

In my excitement it should have read I am having that.
There is a cost to everything and whatever the cost it is worth it.

By the way looking for a Radar Rat as well.

[BME]

cocteau101 said:

In my excitement it should have read I am having that.
There is a cost to everything and whatever the cost it is worth it.

By the way looking for a Radar Rat as well.

Yep, might as well throw a radar rat in as well- bring it up to a round 100k!

;D

[7eny]

I definitely think the self portrait will break all Banksy records, love it

[ABC]

Those estimates are silly, that Portrait is an amazing piece and will go through the roof IMO. I agree with 7eny it may break the 100k. will be interesting to watch

[manchestermike]

romanywg said:

How much was it on CB?

I think it started sub 10k, then moved up to about £12k then 15 then 19 (from vague memory)

[tomhills1]

abcollings said:

Those estimates are silly, that Portrait is an amazing piece and will go through the roof IMO. I agree with 7eny it may break the 100k. will be interesting to watch

for me if money were no object and the benchmark is £102,500 for BME, then i'd go the extra mile finacially to buy the self-portrait. it's just pure genius.

anyone know if there is more than one of these?

[ABC]

Yeh that BME original is very nice and would look nice on my wall but at 100k you would want Barbed wire around it

[mcnuts]

tomhills1 said:

assuming you get lucky, i feel i should apologise right now for standing at your window 24/7, dribbling and crying in equal measure.

£75k upwards in my opinion

great picture.

[tomhills1]

mcnuts said:

tomhills1 said:

assuming you get lucky, i feel i should apologise right now for standing at your window 24/7, dribbling and crying in equal measure.

£75k upwards in my opinion

great picture.

ditto.

don't they call them avatars though

[ABC]

Looks familiar Mcnuts, have you seen it before??