[flatcap]

This Banksy artwork is now for sale. It is the frontage to a fairground ride called the Mystic Swing which has attended festivals and green fairs for the past few years. Please contact [e-mail] or see www.mysticswing.co.uk for pictures.

Also: wet.panit.co.uk/fairground.php?imageref=3

...and google "Mystic Swing" as a phrase, ignoring the Porter movie of the same name.

Sensible offers only, can deliver.

I'm not actually on the internet and use the local library for a connection so please dont expect an immediate response.

Be lucky!

flatcap

[fecam]

Interesting, but I can see 2 problems:

1. It's huge!
2. It's not the style usually associated with Bansky (ie it's not stencil based). Does it have a Banksy tag anywhere (this will be key to adding value)

Better pic here:

kingstongreenfair.org.uk/gallery/photo2004-9.html

[headphonesex]

fecam said:

Interesting, but I can see 2 problems:

1. It's huge!
2. It's not the style usually associated with Bansky (ie it's not stencil based). Does it have a Banksy tag anywhere (this will be key to adding value)

Better pic here:

kingstongreenfair.org.uk/gallery/photo2004-9.html

I've seen it at Glastonbury a few times.. it's awesome.

Think you ought to go to Sotherbys though to get what it's worth. Not sure any of us plebs have the space or money!

Send Robbie Williams an email... he could stick it over the entrance to his driveway!

[corblimeylimey]

Loads of pics on this thread...

banksyforum.proboards82.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=banksyinnews&thread=1183293855&page=1#1193934871

[scoote]

I remember seeing this a while back, I'm sure it does have a Banksy tag, wow can't believe they are selling it, actually I suppose I can difficult to value though !

[ABC]

I think it does have a banksy tag

[dave313perry]

Be good if we could get some more info up on this - abit of history - when where and how, why??? - Glosto etc....

[flatcap]

The ride, so far as I can trace and chassis-wise, is approximately 30 years old having passed through the Woodford and Bambini families at points. It has had numerous alterations over the years and I can provide two different art guises from years past.

The chassis was, apparently, from a farmers drawbar trailer with the machine built on top. "Originals" (1920/30's) were ground-built on A-Frames (fairly cutting-edge for the time) before latter models were trailer-built - which obviously cut down on build-up/ pull down times.

As to the current arwork, it was finished circa summer 2000, a collaboration between Banksy and the celebrated fairground artist Dave "W.E.T." Panit - wet.panit.co.uk/home.htm

Around 35 of these rides were travelling in the 70's. This particular show is the only one remaining travelling in England hand-turned, with another hydraulically-powered oop north and (possibly??) an example in Scotland.

Links are:

www.mysticswing.co.uk

www.hrionline.ac.uk/db/fairground/gjpg.jsp?id=00120618

wet.panit.co.uk/fairground.php?imageref=3

www.fun-fairs.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18833&sid=960e18ae5cdbb2c80907c024f5ad5136

Hope this helps!!

[morrissey1]

do you think that possibly the size of this work may actually hurt its value? realistically, it's not going over anyone's fireplace....hard to picture it in your house, not that I wouldn't want it.

[BK83]

That's a vintage piece. be interested to see how much it is valued at.... Keep us updated please.
Thanks.

J

[fecam]

Not to piss on Flatcaps parade, but having looked at it again, it looks like a pretty average graf piece. I'm sure the connection with Banksy will make it very valuable, but it is still an ordinary bit of graf...

[scoote]

It may be an average piece of graf, but if you look closely you can see traits of Banksy's now recognised style, which makes it an important piece. The top right hand corner you can see a t.v. whcih looks like it is being thrown, excuse my knowledge but this looks similar to the t.v. coming out of the window piece, and also I believe there is a character in the central part in a gas mask that also looks familiar, all be it less stencilled and more freehand.

[goodbyekitty]

I absolutly love this! I love the vintage feel of it... I'd have it in my flat if a) it would fit and b) I could afford it

Good luck with the sale flatcap

[Daniel Silk]

I think its a brilliant piece! ;D

Surely must be the biggest and most detailed Banksy piece available mobile Stick it up at Sothebys and I could see it break some records ;D

[scoote]

That's a good point Silky I think flatcap really needs to be talking to an aution house about the sale of this...

[andrewd]

It's even bigger than the bloke with the chair ( after Hopper ) that was at the Banksy-v- Warhol. Auction beckons given the size it looks destined for a big collector.

[flatcap]

Eyup all,

In no rush to sell, I'm just thinking that, as the work got slightly damaged this year (sometime whilst I was asleep at a festival) I'm not willing to travel this anymore. Believe me, I think it's a shame. But, I'm not rich and am looking for the cash to buy my "safe haven" as promised by thatcher (I'm not going to put a capital "t" on the start of that word) for my family,

Anyway, I'm not having some pissed up prat playing ping-pong with his head (my friend witnessed this one and politely told him to "go away") with the artwork, nor an imbecile with a cosworth collide with it on a roundabout (close one, that) so it's got to go.

Additional information is that the art was finished in the summer of 2000 with the very able assistance of the very talented Dave Panit who did the lettering (http://wet.panit.co.uk/fairground.php) and is thought to be Banksy's only foray in to fairground art - please correct me if I'm wrong!! Additionally, rather than stencill this is freehand which is (ahem) a bit rare.

All the best moi 'ansomes!

flatcap

[Simococo]

Good luck with the sale. I think its an epic piece that's bound to go far a stack as its an important piece of Banksy history. I bet there are plenty of museums that would love to get their hands on it.

[trebor]

Its Classic.

250,000 quid!

[Mrs Mouse]

Good luck flatcap - it's an amazing piece!

[aj]

It's f*cking great love every thing about it! It's pretty chaotic and a bit mad, but i really liked it. ;D

Oh! and the paintings on the front of the ride are quite nice to.

[beau]

Does the swing work? Is it any good?

[craigf]

Lovely piece and good to know Banksy had some help with it otherwise there is no way I'd believe it was him, the feet are too good!

[milleniumhut]

This is a classic one-off. I've just noticed the sinister looking chaps. There's one on the inside as you enter and another on the reverse side with green and red circles behind. They look like they could be stencils. What do you think? Probably not, but just to add abit of mystery.

[flatcap]

To answer a couple of questions above:

Yep, the ride works and I shall be swinging people mystically at festivals and green fairs next year, yelling at everyone in the normal fairground style. And it's definately worth a pop, though I say so myself, as veryfied by lots of differently starry-eyed folk depending on what doo it's at.

It does have a Banksy tag and I'm currently getting it authenticated to ease the cynics minds.

The "chaps" are being included as part of the lot. "Chaps" - love the phrasing milleniumhut!

It is fairly big, roughly 6m x 3.5m, which I can see is a problem for some folk. If I had somewhere to put it I wouldn't be selling it. Ho hum, anyone got Brad Pitt's number?

trebor, at that price it's yours. You'll get some luck money back on that too.

The work does have to go though and you can but offer. Me, I reckon it's a great bit of art and a good investment.

You can but offer...

flatcap

[flatcap]

...and there's no stencils, apart from the tag.

[stillborncrisps]

What a fab, unique thing. People seem to diss older stuff coz there's no stencils, but it's important coz you can see the evolution of his style. That piece he did for Walls On Fire in '98 (surgeons operating on some graff) was such a cool concept, and then a more developed one turned up years later at the LA show (police wrestling with a piece of graff).

But this needs to go via auction house I reckon. They sometimes have buyers in the wings who'll pay a pretty penny before it even goes to auction. Worth trotting it round Sothebys, Bonhams, Christies for sure.

[aj]

stillborncrisps said:

What a fab, unique thing. People seem to diss older stuff coz there's no stencils, but it's important coz you can see the evolution of his style. That piece he did for Walls On Fire in '98 (surgeons operating on some graff) was such a cool concept, and then a more developed one turned up years later at the LA show (police wrestling with a piece of graff).

But this needs to go via auction house I reckon. They sometimes have buyers in the wings who'll pay a pretty penny before it even goes to auction. Worth trotting it round Sothebys, Bonhams, Christies for sure.

Well said.

[ABC]

Good luck, I remember seeing this early last year, we discussed it on the OEF

[pastiepie]

I think some of the auction houses would be interested in such a unique piece. Maybe try Andipa, they'll take anything Banksy.

The problem I see is obtaining provenance from Laz, without it you'll only get a fraction of it's true worth. Laz has been known to buy back older Banksy items and even help sell them for people, you may be in luck.