[kjg]

The auction is tonight. Is there a site where I can watch it live?

[Dahmer]

Considering it doesn’t look like it’s ever been close to oil paint I’d say it might top out about 4 - not gonna get anywhere near that Kaws price (that was also way too high for what it is).

[josephwillis123]

Yes. Go to Sothebys website and click on the auction. (one way to find the correct auction is to click, "Buy" -> "Calendar"-> find the correct auction). Then somewhere on the top right click "BidNow, Watch Live". 
You need to register an account. You don't need any financial information just to watch.

I hope that helps!

(I really enjoy watching the large auction houses.)

[kjg]

Oct 3, 2019 18:13:13 GMT 1 josephwillis123 said:

Yes. Go to Sothebys website and click on the auction. (one way to find the correct auction is to click, "Buy" -> "Calendar"-> find the correct auction). Then somewhere on the top right click "BidNow, Watch Live". 
You need to register an account. You don't need any financial information just to watch.

I hope that helps!

(I really enjoy watching the large auction houses.)

Thanks!

[Emile]

Sold for 8.5m GBP

* Edit: hammer price

[Pawel]

Sept 15, 2019 0:00:37 GMT 1 Pawel said:

Sept 14, 2019 23:52:22 GMT 1 Coach said:

Estimate of £1.5-2 million. I’d guess around £3m.

I'd guess around £10m

Close enough 

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Kt-JNlJnM

[rebate]

Holy shit! I figured it may do a little over the top end. Bravo Banksy, the fuckers fell for it!

[warwolf]

Oct 3, 2019 21:10:30 GMT 1 rebate said:

Holys**t! I figured it may do a little over the top end. Bravo Banksy, the fuckers fell for it!

Fell for what, this piece is great, huge and attributed to banksy, its grail mate

[rebate]

Oct 3, 2019 21:21:31 GMT 1 warwolf said:

Oct 3, 2019 21:10:30 GMT 1 rebate said:

Holys**t! I figured it may do a little over the top end. Bravo Banksy, the fuckers fell for it!

Fell for what, this piece is great, huge and attributed to banksy, its grail mate

All of it, the whole dam thing. Hes even made art about it. Subjectivity, objectivity and profitability, while tickling the world for giggles. 

[Daniel Silk]

www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-49924281

[Daniel Silk]

[Wearology]

Congratulations Banksy - You win !!!!!!!

[Reverend Tonezone]

:slow clap:

[JJN]

Finally, getting recognized as the Artist of this generation.

If KAWS was to setal the mantle of the urban artist of our genration that would be a tragic joke.

[lv90210]

Oct 4, 2019 6:12:58 GMT 1 JJN said:

Finally, getting recognized as the Artist of this generation.

If KAWS was to setal the mantle of the urban artist of our genration that would be a tragic joke.

I own a fair bit of KAWS but KAWS is for kids..... up the B man !

[Art Fan 2011]

When the wealthy want something enough, they sure do end up overpaying for stuff, for the super rich it's all just meaningless numbers and having something no one else has

The timing of placing this in auction is impeccable, at no time in the last 10 years would this of achieved anywhere near that price! The owner has had his/her payday and the Banksy steamtrain continues.

[eyectopus]

I think it is a wise purchase. This painting has been very widely shown in the media. Paintings usually only get this much attention when they have broken a record for price for all paintings and not just for the artist.

Banksy is constantly using different media to produce art. Performance, film, exhibitions, attractions, stunts, paintings, street Art etc. He never seems to rest. He has a bigger and more varied body of work than most artists. For now this painting is the one everyone is looking at. A year on the shredded girl with balloon is still being talked about and this one will be the same.

[Deleted]

£10 million for one of the defining pieces of artwork of modern times doesn't strike me as overpriced, when you judge it against prices achieved by other major artists. It's lower than the record for a Damien Hirst and would anyone argue Banksy has had less impact on the art world than Hirst? I'd say they're equal. Can anyone even name the highest-selling Hirst without looking it up? I couldn't. If I had £10 million to spend on a piece of art I can't think what I'd choose over this.

It's silly money, sure, but pretty much everything discussed on this forum is sold for silly money, to lesser degrees. Is a small off-cut from a Kaws print 'worth' thousands of pounds? To a lot of people it's a piece of scrap paper. To those that want it, it's worth it. Is a wooden postcard worth £50? Not really, unless you want it. £10 million for the only one of these in existence (as far as I know) is just a different kind of silly money.

[Dahmer]

I would take a bet its probably the Crystal Skull, if my memory is correct then it sold for £50 million, but i have a feeling white cube paid £25 million and Hirst paid the other £25 million.

Also, if i remember rightly, it had to sell for £50 million or it would devalue some other pieces of his that were about to come to auction.

[eliopp]

Quite funny that someone paid this much for something banksy didn't even paint. Fantastic piece of art in it's own right though

[fr0wh3r3]

disappointed, I was waiting for the start of the paper shredder

[Deleted]

Oct 4, 2019 9:31:17 GMT 1 Dahmer said:

I would take a bet its probably the Crystal Skull, if my memory is correct then it sold for £50 million, but i have a feeling white cube paid £25 million and Hirst paid the other £25 million.

Also, if i remember rightly, it had to sell for £50 million or it would devalue some other pieces of his that were about to come to auction.

Apologies. You're right. I thought it was Lullaby Spring, but the skull was quite massively more than that. 

[Dahmer]

I saw the skull or whatever its called at Tate Modern when his retrospective was on, it was separate from the exhibition and held in the turbine hall. The rest of the show was massively impressive, with pharmacy, his university work, the butterfly room, literally everything he ever did - simply an incredible show. But the way the skull was displayed with lights everywhere made it look really tacky and something that wouldn't of looked out of place in poundland with the other halloween shit.

Fun fact about that show, a friend of mine was accused by security for trying to steal some of the artwork, when trying to leave the butterfly room, one of the actual butterflies was perched on her handbag, she hadnt noticed and security tried to claim she was attempting to steal a piece of hirsts artwork. She simply brushed it away and that was that.

[Fake]

It made the National news here in the Lowlands ;-)

[Deleted]

Oct 4, 2019 10:48:35 GMT 1 Dahmer said:

I saw the skull or whatever its called at Tate Modern when his retrospective was on, it was separate from the exhibition and held in the turbine hall. The rest of the show was massively impressive, with pharmacy, his university work, the butterfly room, literally everything he ever did - simply an incredible show. But the way the skull was displayed with lights everywhere made it look really tacky and something that wouldn't of looked out of place in poundland with the other halloweens**t.

Fun fact about that show, a friend of mine was accused by security for trying to steal some of the artwork, when trying to leave the butterfly room, one of the actual butterflies was perched on her handbag, she hadnt noticed and security tried to claim she was attempting to steal a piece of hirsts artwork. She simply brushed it away and that was that.

Totally agree. I was a bit sniffy about him before that show - thought he was just ‘the spot guy’ - but seeing the timeline of his work I could see the themes and progression. Came away liking him a lot more. And the skull was the least interesting part.

Not keen on his most recent work, but respect him more as an artist for seeing that show.

I’ve taken this right off topic

[Lazarus II]

Can you take the GDP thread off topic, the FOMO of what are likely to be grown adults is never great reading.

[tonysantos2001]

Have read a few interesting posts with regard to "Banksy" not painting this piece......and yes, that's probably the case. Most artists get to a stage in their career when they "Farm out" work and bring in assistants, and it's pretty obvious to all that Banksy has had assistance from the very early days, so how come none of these myriad of assistants have come forward to spill their guts to the press for a few quid?! Simple, when you're employed by an artist, especially one as high profile as this you will sign an airtight N.D.A. as part of your employment contract. Most artists employed in this manner would not risk their future career or sales for the sake of some attention, none would be that naive and/or stupid.

So therefore, if any "Artists" have insinuated that they're responsible for painting this piece it's pretty much a safe bet that they're lying as a pathetic attempt at an oxygen grab.

[WOOF]

Oct 4, 2019 23:54:31 GMT 1 tonysantos2001 said:

So therefore, if any "Artists" have insinuated that they're responsible for painting this piece it's pretty much a safe bet that they're lying as a pathetic attempt at an oxygen grab.

Or they already know they'll never work with the B man again...

[tonysantos2001]

Oct 5, 2019 1:54:05 GMT 1 WOOF said:

Oct 4, 2019 23:54:31 GMT 1 tonysantos2001 said:

So therefore, if any "Artists" have insinuated that they're responsible for painting this piece it's pretty much a safe bet that they're lying as a pathetic attempt at an oxygen grab.

Or they already know they'll never work with the B man again...

I think it's safe to say that they never worked with him in the first place lol!

[maxamaxa2]

Oct 1, 2019 10:06:54 GMT 1 Not 4 The Thril said:

Here is a photo of a left handed Banksy painting Devolved Parliament:



Banksy is ambidextrous!!!!!!!

...or a photographer told him to kneel on the right side for the photo so that the standing monkey would be visible, and then to pose with a brush. Photographers tend to be more interested in the composition than the correctness in details like left and right handed artists and this is most likely a pose picture than an action pic of any actual painting done.