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Laugh Now - Signed Print by Banksy 2003 - MyArtBroker

Laugh Now
Signed Print

Banksy

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$100,000-$140,000 Value Indicator

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¥9,620,000-¥13,460,000 Value Indicator

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 150

Year: 2003

Size: H 70cm x W 50cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Banksy's Laugh Now (signed) is estimated to be worth between £50,000 and £70,000. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £45,625, with a total of 4 works sold. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £40,000 in September 2024 to £120,960 in March 2021. This work is popular on the market, having been sold 44 times since its initial sale in April 2008. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 150.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
December 2024Tradart Deauville France
September 2024Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
September 2024Christie's London United Kingdom
September 2023Sotheby's London United Kingdom
August 2023Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
April 2023Sotheby's London United Kingdom
August 2022Sotheby's Online United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

‘Laugh now, but one day we’ll be in charge’, reads the sandwich board worn by the eerie monkey in this 2003 Banksy signed print. Much like with Banksy’s visual vocabulary in general, there can be various interpretations for the monkey figure in this work. It can be viewed as a representation of the oppressed, who walk the streets until they’re exhausted in order to spread their message. Or perhaps it is simply a monkey, by which Banksy is commenting on how man has enslaved animals for centuries, including his primate cousins, much like he does in the work Barcode with a leopard, or it could be a symbol for the common man, the average Joe who is downtrodden by class wars and enslaved by capitalism, themes that Banksy regularly revisits through different characters such as a rat in other famous prints like Love Rat and Gangsta Rat.

Laugh Now was a commission before being released as a print, it appeared in a nightclub in Brighton and eventually went on to be sold for almost half a million dollars.