[saint]

Taken from that article.....

According to his manager at that time, Banksy was so scared of the Agency that when he sprayed the canvas he deliberately spelled "Highways" as "Higways" to avoid being sued.

Of course I'm laughing about the misspelling now. But when I purchased the canvas back in 2001 I was the laughing stock of my friends.

Hungover and desperate to keep out of the rain, I had wandered into an art gallery in Glasgow and promptly fell in love with Don't Believe the Type. I claimed the canvas as my first art purchase, parted with £500 and was given "Invoice number 5" as a receipt. While proudly showing off the canvas to friends later down the pub, they collapsed in fits of laughter at the spelling mistake.

Rattled by the error, I called Banksy's manager for a refund. He told me that this was the first canvas of this edition and he assured me that the mistake was intentional. He said: "Banksy was scared that the real Highways Agency would sue him for pretending to be them so he thought this spelling mistake would give him some protection."

[lee3]

Hi all, agreed that those are special photos. However, I can't take the credit as they aren't mine. Those have been available online for some time now and apologize if it looked as though I snapped them which I did not. Sadly, I was unaware of Banksy back then too. The prices would have been laughable by todays metric as Saint (just rewatched that old Val Kilmer film fwiw) pointed out above. I do know that a year later at Existencilism n '02 they ranged from $250 to $500 a canvas depending upon size.

Further to your point on that Barcode Saint, it could well have been exhibited in that show. The handful of photos that we have to look at it today by no means cover the entire show and my guess is most if not all of those in the workshop photo were on display. I remember the Corrosive Bird canvas being available at Laz back in '07 and the price had risen substantially by then as we would all expect.

[saint]

I'm more of a roger moore tv series saint than a val kilmer film saint, imo of course....

I have no idea mate so it really is speculation, would love to see some more in depth pics from Peace is Tough, but sadly i think we're unlikely to come across any.

[chyren]

i remember bar code prints selling for £75 in selfridges around that time,
i didnt buy any...

[rowan]

Is it/are they signed?

[saint]

The one being sold here is unsigned, there are signed versions out there, the canvases i have no idea about as have never seen one in the flesh, pity!

[G-Man]

I would love a Barcode, PM sent with trades list

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