Rare Banksy Rude Snowman Christmas Card from the Santa's Ghetto exhibition
This is a 100% authentic plate signed Rude Snowman card created by Banksy in 2006, not a cheap knock-off.
The image is a parody of the Raymond Briggs's "The Snowman" character.
One of these cards was exhibited at the Santa's Ghetto show in Oxford St, London back in 2006, Banksy added a Raymond Briggs's signature to the one in the exhibition.
This entertaining parody of your more typical Christmas cards is printed on cardstock and features BANKSY'stag printed on the back of the card
Folded Christmas card 14,5 cm x 17,5 cm
Great rare collectors item for any Banksy fan.
Framed in blue frame without any schotch and hardboard backed and sealed for preservation, however can be removed and the piece has no signs of glue
Mint condition
This items is listed at Laz emporium at £3000, now is sold out
https://lazemporium.com/collections/stuff/products/rude-snowman-christmas-card
The first rule for buying any work ofart is buy it because you love it, if you’re buying a Banksy artwork you as an investment is clear where value of Banksy's artwork will go...but you must take attention about authenticity
The authenticity problem
Prints
The main issue with buying Banksyprints online is determining authenticity. Are you buying a legit Banksy or making a very expensive mistake?
The absolute safest way is to only buyfrom official Banksy outlets, POW, meant Pictures on Walls
that from 2003 sold many Banksy'sprints but since several years has closed.
These POW prints can be authenticated from Pest Control, the sole point of contact for Banksy. Their Keeping it Real service gives buyers the opportunity to check authenticity before parting with their cash. If the seller already has a certificate of authenticity (COA) Pest Control will run it against their database, if the seller doesn’t have a COA they can apply to have it verified for a fee.
Pest Control only authenticates commercial work. Only when the work of art was sold to be owned and not created for all they will do their magic. If your collection happens to include a neat street sign or Di-Faced Tenner, you’reall out of luck. Pest Control won’t help you authenticate it. Thisis due to the simple reason that Banksy has said that his non-commercial work should not be owned by any.
For initial research Banksy unofficial do a nice job of cataloguing Banksy’s print releases by year, with 50 motives in total and each motive has been produced in about 150 to 600 pieces each and there is a number on each print.
In London Lazarides Gallery, run by Steve Lazarides, Banksy’s de facto agent for 11 years started outselling Banksy screen prints for just £25, most of those POW printsare now worth several thousands of pounds and each year they growt exponentially value.
One of more expensive POW print is Girlwith balloon produced in 150 copies that from about £100 in 2010 has been auctioned through the years growing from £10000 to £15000 to£50000 to $150000 to £300000 to £400000 in 2020
http://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/banksy/banksy-girl-with-balloon
The original Bansky Girl with balloon has sold £1,042,000 in 2018 at Sotheby's auction
http//www.sothebybys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/contemporary-art-evening-auction-l18024/lot.67.htmland Love is in the bin at Sotheby's auction 14/10/2021 has sold formore eur 22 million
So nowdays for buy one of a about 50types of original POW print each printed in 150-600 copies each are needed at least £50000-60000 for some types to more £200000-400000for most collected types.
On market exist many thousands of prints produced from private editor often numbered that cost from few eur to many hundreds eur and they can be buyed because you love them.
Love is in the Bin
We all know what happened to Banksy’s 2006 painting of ‘Girl with Balloon’ right after it was sold at auction for a record £1,042,000 in 2018.
Love is in the Bin is a 2018 art intervention by Banksy at Sotheby's London, with an unexpectedself-destruction of his 2006 painting of Girl with Balloon immediately after it was sold at auction for a record £1,042,000.According to Sotheby's, it is "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction."
Its next stop was four weeks at the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, Germany and then painting has been on permanent loan to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart since March2019.
14/10/2021 Love is in the Bin has been auctioned from Sotheby's with estimated price from £4-6 million and sold for more eur 22 million
Dismaland
In Autumn 2015, Banksy transformed a disused lido on Weston-super-Mare’s seaside pier into Dismaland –the “family theme park unsuitable for children.” This Dazed and Confused article, written three years later, does a nice job of reflecting with locals on the impact and legacy of the event that drew the world’s media and over 200,000 visitors in just thirty sixdays.
Many of those visitors left with a Dismaland themed item or two and some of those end up on market. But please be careful, there are lots of items purporting to be Banksy artworks, currency or original prints from Dismaland and they’re just not.
Gross Domestic Product
Gross Domestic Product was set up in 2019 as ‘The homewares brand for Banksy’. A pop-up shop of the same name was set up in Croydon displaying Banksy’s artworks ‘fordisplay purposes only’.
‘Availability will be limited’ was an epic understatement when the online store went live. Collectors were only allowed to buy one artwork and answer the question ‘why does art matter?’.
The most famous artworks sold are Welcome Mats, hand-stitched welcome mat using the fabric from lifevests abandoned on the beaches of the Mediterranean, sold first in 500 numbered pieces and followed of others more 3000 pieces that on secondary market cost about £5000 for first edition and less for the second and third edition.
From Gross Domestic Product also are available multiple prints of a Rat and of a Thrower flowers prints handed out free at random time outside the shop that are sold from eur 3000 to eur 10000 also if the market is full of reproductions of these types. The original are printed on 50gsm paper so the paper has naturally occurring waves from the screen printing process.
The Walled Off Hotel
The Walled off editions are much rarer than most of Banksy's official silk-screen print that were publishedby POW at the time.
In the Spring of 2017, a hundred yearsafter the British took control of Palestine, Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel opened to the world as ‘a genuine art hotel with fully functioning ensuite facilities’ in Bethlehem, Palestine.
Until 2020, the date of closing, it was possible to buy a limited number of specific souvenirs at the Walled Off Hotel's gift shop, namely decorated miniature multiples of the dividing wall. The Walled Off Hotel miniature editions are offered for sale by hotel from some three years only, from September 2017 to 2020, except for a long period of closure in last year 2020. Thes esmall works of graffiti art, which have since become much-coveted items, were only available to hotel guests, were allowed to buy only one item per person per overnight stay, the multiples were not always in stock and sometimes guests could choose from a dozen different ones while others times was nothing available, given the irregular supply and the conscious arbitrariness.
With everything sold out at The Walled Off Hotel Gift Shop we’ll need to turn to the secondary markets again. Purchases from the Walled Off Hotel shop come with a stamped hotel receipt for authentication, an essential part of any secondary sale.
Banksy Walled Off Hotel wall sculptures were cast in England and shipped to Palestine by Bankys studio and hand painted by local artists after directly Banksy supervision from England that implies that the number of decorated miniatures was restricted to quantity that Banksy wanted to make available for the purpose.
The great artistic themes of the WalledOff multiples pertained to miniature reproductions of existing muralsand messages of resistance that had been applied in Palestinian territory. His motivations was to create local employment and to have the potential proceeds of these editions go to investments and initiative for benefit of the local population and more interest ofthe Israeli-Palestinian matters.
The pieces are unique, irrispective ofthe size of its edition, always on an aesthetic level and each object can be distinguished down to the minutest details. Besides the rather simple free work, there are a number of unique pieces that appeal to the imagination showing combination of calls and symbolic values that are frequently found on the real wall of Bethlehem.
They have been produced in about 30 types and for each types noones know how many pieces have been produced, such mysteriousness is simply part of Banksy myth and is cultivated by its guardians. They want to prevent the secondary market from getting even more overheated by providing detailed information about rarity of the objects, neverthless it is possible to get a good picture and has been estimated that has been produced about 5000 pieces.
Marc Pairon is the author of the book The Walled Off Art Editions are sold out! and he has catalogued these type of artworks giving an estimation of rarity for each piece, infact exist common pieces made in many pieces and other very rare pieces made in very few pieces (1-3 pieces).
While the original cost was from 450NIS (New Israeli Shekel 1 NIS about 0,25 eur or 0,29 $) for simple pieces to 2750 NIS for a large defeated object with tower the cost onmarket is eur 1000-2000 for common pieces until eur 20000-30000 for rare pieces.
The market is full of reproduction of these type of artwork, many are clearly fakes but many are very good forgeries. Walled Off Hotel artworks aren’t verified by Pest Control so determining authenticity can be trickier so don’t be afraid to eek out as much information as possible on its provenance.
Considering what happened at POW printswith PEST Control certificate of authenticity that in 17 years have increase value x2000 and x10000 (from about £75 to £500 issue price of POW in 2004 value at more £50000 for many types until more£400000...it is simple checking it go example at Sotheby's website and search in Sold lot the word Banksy) and considering that these prints have been produced about 50 types x 150-600 piece each total more 20000 pieces it is normal thinking where value of these 5000 pieces will go in next few years expecially the ones with Certificate Of Authenticity COA of expert Marc Pairon.
As published in book of Marc Pairon the Walled off editions are much rarer than most of Banksy's official silk-screen print that were published by POW at the time.
In 2021 the Walled Off pieces are still the original Banksy editions that modest collectors could affort. Altough frequently produced in large numbers, prints or other issues of his work approved by him were already being traded at exorbitant prices on the art market.
Posters
Original Banksy screen prints for less than five or six figure sums are largely a thing of the past so many collectors have turned to Banksy posters from exhibitions and events. Prices are more in the three to four figure range making them a more affordable way to own a Banksy themed artwork you love. When it comes to buying Banksy posters eBay is king. Posters aren’t verified by Pest Control so determining authenticity can be trickier so don’t be afraid to eek out as much information as possible on its provenance.