Banksy • Weston Super Mare Print

[mcnuts]

weeble said:

curiousgeorge said:

www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4MZH7

Just over a year ago WSM canvas for 9k!!!

hindsight is a truly wonderful thing!

yup ... its a killer to go through the "I wish I woulda..." It would be neat to see a thread not on the pritns you wish you would have bought but those you wish you hadnt

[bollockchops]

cityman said:

anyone know how expensive prints can get? ie. from other artists?

what's the dearest Warhol print for example? or Hirst?

A Warhol screenprint of Maryilyn went for £14.1million earlier this year.

It cost $300 (about £150) at one of Warhol's solo shows and was auctioned by the person who originally bought it.

[bollockchops]

Hirsts spot prints originally sold for £500. One recently went for £12K

[jam]

I friend of mine owns an art gallery in NY. She has been collecting art for years, since the late 60s. She told me about some of the original Warhols they owned/own and what they paid for them. Its mad! She has an original Mao silkscreen thats large, it was only 5k in 1974... an original suite of 10 prints from the Marilyns all signed and numbered were $500 each... and many other similar memories of prices paid. She jokes about how she though it was crazy to pay that much back then and that she thought she would never break even if she needed to sell anything, but his prices kept going up and up as more people learned about him. Of course, there is also a number of artists that didn't last that she has sunk thousands in... you just never know.

Her key to collecting just as many people on here say, is to buy what you love at a price you can live with, then you can't go wrong!

[stickitup]

yes but the whole thing about warhols was that he wanted to produce art off a production line - hence his work studio being called the factory. most of the signatures were not done by warhol himself and many were stamped onto the work. jeffrey archer commisioned a load and then threw them away, theres a gallery which sells those ones at brandler gallery (think that was where it was) ask the guy there about it and he will tell you the story. signed warhols are in fact worth little more than an unsigned as it is very difficult to prove it was signed by the artist himself

[cashman]

stickitup said:

yes but the whole thing about warhols was that he wanted to produce art off a production line - hence his work studio being called the factory. most of the signatures were not done by warhol himself and many were stamped onto the work. jeffrey archer commisioned a load and then threw them away, theres a gallery which sells those ones at brandler gallery (think that was where it was) ask the guy there about it and he will tell you the story. signed warhols are in fact worth little more than an unsigned as it is very difficult to prove it was signed by the artist himself

thats not quite true, you can take warhols to people who look after his estate and if there not considerd to be signed by him the stamp strait through the middle, like the cauty rejects

[Pattycakes]

Actually the unsigned Sunday B Morning ones are fake, they come from completely different screens to the original edition, and are still being printed today. They are utterly crap when you compaire them to the originals.

[jipsy]

I see there are 2 (count them) WSM prints on Ebay.
A week to go on both.
Have they got a chance of breaking 8k?

[jonpud]

Galleries have now upped the price from £12k to £15k!

Expect Ebay price to be nearer £10k! (But with 2 listed this might lower it a bit)

My money says they will go for £9k Glad I bought mine 2 months ago!!!

[jonpud]

Just hit £8k!!!

[adrscib]

the gallery prices and increases are mostly hyped up... e.g. oldchurchgalleries show banksies at overinflated prices... no wonder that they dont sell them (they sit there unsold for 3 months now!) ... other galleries do the trick that they raise the prices of signed to a very high level so that ppl gasp and dont ask for it... (then when you enquire they are out of stock), then they keep the prices of unsigned at reasonable levels just to make the unsigned look more attractive.... its marketing... the site i remeber is union gallery work this way but forgot the web address.

[la]

Provenance and pristine signed WSM for sale. PM cash offers please.
would be happy to do part cash part trade maybe with another signed Banksy, micallef or Neate.

all the best

[bigdave]

Just won the weston-super-mare print on ebay for £970,
have been after it for years as i was brought up in the god-for-saken place.

a very very happy bigdave

;D ;D ;D ;D

[foundation]

bigdave said:

Just won the weston-super-mare print on ebay for £970,
have been after it for years as i was brought up in the god-for-saken place.

a very very happy bigdave

;D ;D ;D ;D

Congrats Dave, guess you need any type of good fortune after a life in WSM, I hope you have a happy life together and it brings back good memories ( such as the day old Eric got rip-sawed whilst sitting on a bench on the promenade, ahh halcyon days indeed)

[numusic]

bigdave said:

Just won the weston-super-mare print on ebay for £970,
have been after it for years as i was brought up in the god-for-saken place.

a very very happy bigdave

;D ;D ;D ;D

hey, congratulations mate ! a classic, good price too ! ;D

[RetroCanvas]

I want one!!!

Went to art college there and that was enough. Banksy really has summed it up in one image in my opinion. Great print hey Dave? Probably my fave, I really need to just buy one i think!

Retro

bigdave said:

Just won the weston-super-mare print on ebay for £970,
have been after it for years as i was brought up in the god-for-saken place.

a very very happy bigdave

;D ;D ;D ;D

[bigdave]

Went to art college there and that was enough. Banksy really has summed it up in one image in my opinion. Great print hey Dave? Probably my fave, I really need to just buy one i think!

Retro



yeah i love it! I'll post a picture up as soon as i get it framed.

Was that westcliff college by any chance? i spent 2 wonderful years there on the
design course. I swear my tutor trevor was gay (not that thats a problem of course!)

[RetroCanvas]

No I did the years foundation course at the smaller building behind.

Was one of the best years of my life to date. I was there around the year 2001.

retro

bigdave said:

Went to art college there and that was enough. Banksy really has summed it up in one image in my opinion. Great print hey Dave? Probably my fave, I really need to just buy one i think!

Retro



yeah i love it! I'll post a picture up as soon as i get it framed.

Was that westcliff college by any chance? i spent 2 wonderful years there on the
design course. I swear my tutor trevor was gay (not that thats a problem of course!)

[tomhills]

well done fella, well jealous - cuffin love that print. just a small, somewhat incidental point. does anyone know a little dave? my brother-in-law is a bigdave, i've met two other bigdaves, just wondering if when not being used in a literal sense it's then used in an ironic one?
sorry.
peace.

[©hief']

I know a Gay Dave and a Disco Dave but no Little Dave

[bigdave]

tomhills said:

well done fella, well jealous - cuffin love that print. just a small, somewhat incidental point. does anyone know a little dave? my brother-in-law is a bigdave, i've met two other bigdaves, just wondering if when not being used in a literal sense it's then used in an ironic one?
sorry.
peace.

no one wants to be a little dave, it doesn't have the same ring to it
im 6ft 3 and still growing, maybe i should start calling myself the biggest dave

[bigdave]

My W-Super-M arrived the other day, chuffed it's a beautiful print.

Anybody used any good but reasonable framers in London?
i had my grannies and FF framed at London Frame factory.
they did a wicked job but it cost an arm and a leg.

should i go back there, shouldn't i? so many questions

bigdave

[tomhills1]

gotta do that print justice big dave, no good cutting corners. i'm sure if you shop around though you can get a pukka job at a decent price. good luck fella and i'm sure you'll enjoy looking at it everyday.
want one. bad.

[bigdave]

tomhills1 said:

gotta do that print justice big dave, no good cutting corners. i'm sure if you shop around though you can get a pukka job at a decent price. good luck fella and i'm sure you'll enjoy looking at it everyday.
want one. bad.

yeah your right, can't skimp on getting a sweet print framed,
i was thinking about a white box frame with the print a couple of cm's
away from the glass

i'll get a few pics up when i find the money and get it framed.

[Curley]

bigdave said:

My W-Super-M arrived the other day, chuffed it's a beautiful print.

Anybody used any good but reasonable framers in London?
i had my grannies and FF framed at London Frame factory.
they did a wicked job but it cost an arm and a leg.

should i go back there, shouldn't i? so many questions

bigdave

i had my FF and Applause done here and i have seen a few Banksy prints in there.He's a top man and will spend enough time getting it how you want it. ;D ;D ;D

Frame Emporium
123-129 Pancras Rd, London NW1
589-591 Holloway RD, London N19
Tel: [phone]
Wide selection of frames. Offers dry mounting and hand finishing. Sometimes offers discount.

[theministerofsound]

As someone who didn't grow-up on that side of the pond, why do you think Weston Super Mare does a good job capturing the area?

[tomhills1]

for weston-super-mare read; margate, blackpool, skegness, eastbourne etc. the seaside resorts of england are without exception the most mundane, soul destroying, lifeless places on earth. there is something quite eery about them, like they've been forgotten by time to grow old and frail like those who reside there.
just the concept of an "amusement" arcade sends a shiver down my spine.

[corblimeylimey]

You've hit the nail on the head there lesbianwednesdays, hasn't exactly got lovely beaches either, known as Weston-Super-Mud, although the Devon equivalent Paignton has got a better beach, the atmosphere is similar.

I must say though not every English seaside resort is like that, Newquay although not my cup of tea is a lot more lively, and you wouldn't include Brighton either.

[tomhills1]

true, although they have sport and the arts respectively to attract people down there unlike a traditional seaside resort. as if to say the sea in itself is an attraction! i heard BME was an actual life drawing from down eastbourne one tuesday afternoon in may.

[pezlow]

Minister of sound - best comparison would be somewhere like Old Orchard Beach in Maine or one of the many other older small coastal resorts in New England.