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Thrower (Grey) VIP - Signed Print by Banksy 2019 - MyArtBroker

Thrower (Grey) VIP
Signed Print

Banksy

£100,000-£150,000Value Indicator

$200,000-$300,000 Value Indicator

$180,000-$270,000 Value Indicator

¥920,000-¥1,370,000 Value Indicator

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 300

Year: 2019

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Banksy's Thrower (Grey) VIP (signed) is estimated to be worth between £100,000 and £150,000. This screenprint, created in 2019, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 9%. This work has an auction history of four total sales since its entry to the market on 17th August 2022. In the last 12 months, there have been no sales. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £121,920 in March 2023 to £171,360 in August 2022. The average return to the seller is £130,037. 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
March 2023Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
September 2022Christie's London United Kingdom
September 2022Phillips London United Kingdom
August 2022Sotheby's Online United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Banksy’s Thrower print represents an evolution of one of his most famous pieces of street art entitled Love Is In The Air (Flower Thrower). The work shows a man with a bandana over his face frozen in the act of throwing not a brick or a molotov cocktail, but a bunch of flowers at an unseen target, and could be read as conveying a message of pacifism, perhaps referencing a photograph by Bernie Boston entitled Flower Power in which a Vietnam War protester is shown inserting a flower into the barrel of a soldier’s gun.

The present version splits the design into three parts. The original description for the work explains that the piece represents ‘Banksy’s first experiment with a new technique for making prints – spray the stencil onto processing film and expose the result directly onto a silk screen.’ In this way Banksy is returning to more manual techniques of printing, avoiding digital methods of manipulation in order to perfectly recreate the striking marks of the original design. In doing so Banksy appears to be referring back to the origins of screen printing as a medium in fine art, recalling a pre-digital age when artists such as Andy Warhol and Keith Haring transferred their images directly onto a screen to be reproduced over and over, heralding a new era for the dissemination and commodification of art.

With its classical stencilled style the work also harks back to Banksy’s origins as a street artist, the stencil representing the quickest way for the artist to insert his image into the urban environment whilst surrounded by CCTV and the eyes of the police. Referenced and reproduced multiple times, the flower thrower has become part of the canon of street art, becoming as instantly recognisable as Banksy’s rats or monkeys.

Dimensions:

Left Panel: H 74cm x W 55cm

Centre Panel: H 92cm x W 61cm

Right Panel: H 37cm x W 47cm

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