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I noticed at Lunchtime that Urban Outfitters in Oxford Street has a canvas of the Clerkenwell Rd Thugs on the wall. Didn't have time to go in for a proper look or to ask about it, and I don't know if it's for sale or just part of the decor.

I don't recall having seen or heard about a Thugs canvas. Has Banksy ever done one, or do you reckon it's a home-made job? I'm estimating it's about 50x30cm.

I'll post a crappy phone photo on here when I get home.

Edit:



I told you it was a crappy photo.

[ikonoclast]

Doesn't look like a canvas to me - it' looks like a large scale photo of the original wall

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You can see it very clearly in person, the reflections of all the scaffolding on the other side of the road in the window there don't help. I know the original piece very well and It's not a photo, unless the photo's been fiddled with. And it's on canvas. I know you can get photos printed on to canvas. This is possibly what they've done, but I was wondering if there was such a thing as a 'real' Thugs on canvas.

[jimihendrixjunior]

yeah I went in this shop a little while ago and noticed this. its not a banksy print, its just a photo printed on a big canvas. they sell 'Wall and Peace' inside as well.
shame, cos it would be an awesome print! guy

[mido]

there is a shop on the edge of spitalfields that sells lots of canvases based on colour photos of Banksy graffiti. Called Smudge Gallery I think. They also send out sellers around the locality to sell them on the local streets as well.

It could be one of theirs?

I've never seen 'thugs' as a real canvas.

[hankpank]

Smudge Gallery:
www.spitalfieldsartmarket.co.uk/products.php?cat=7

I was there this summer and he had a lot of Banksy photographs done on canvas.

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I expect that's what it is then. Cheers

I quite like them. Don't think I'll be buying any, but I do quite like them.