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Grin Reaper - Signed Print by Banksy 2005 - MyArtBroker

Grin Reaper
Signed Print

Banksy

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¥3,940,000-¥5,910,000 Value Indicator

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 300

Year: 2005

Size: H 70cm x W 44cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Banksy's Grin Reaper (signed) is estimated to be worth between £20,000 and £30,000. This screenprint, created in 2005, has shown consistent value growth over the past five years. The hammer price over the past 12 months has ranged from £11,633 in November 2024 to £85,000 in December 2020. The average annual growth rate of this work is 3%. This is a popular work, having been sold 42 times at auction since its initial sale in September 2007. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 300.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
November 2024Julien's Auctions United States
October 2024Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
February 2024Phillips London United Kingdom
August 2023Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
May 2023Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
April 2023Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
March 2023Tate Ward Auctions United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Banksy’s Grin Reaper is amongst the earliest known street art works from the artist. The graffiti appeared around the Old street and Shoreditch neighbourhood in the early 2000s. Most of these works along with the original Reaper were covered up in London’s 2007 anti-graffiti sweep, however, Banksy reproduced the figure in a series of 300 in 2005. In Banksy’s Grin Reaper, the face of the Reaper has been replaced with a bright yellow ‘smiley face’, associated with 90s rave culture and also used by Banksy in other pieces, such as Flying Copper. Perhaps his regular use of this motif reveals how he spent his time in the early 1990s!

This print is black and white, except for the bright yellow of the reaper’s smiling face. The Reaper sits hunched, atop a clock. In his hand, is the Grim Reaper's symbolic scythe and his bare, skeletal feet are swinging over the clock face. The clock reads five minutes to midnight, which leads to speculation that this clock is, in fact, the Doomsday Clock; a visual metaphor representing the likelihood of a human made global catastrophe. The closer the hands get to midnight, the closer we are to the end of civilisation. Although the clock and Reaper are printed only in black and white on a grey background, the black cloak of the reaper is much more painterly than we tend to see with Banksy, giving it a depth of movement and realism often unseen in usual stencilled artworks.

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