Banksy print bought for $2600 now has $80k price tag
Banksy’s Jack and Jill (Police Kids), 2005, edition 288 of 350, measuring 50cm by 70cm, has an estimate of $80,000 to $100,000.
Courtesy Leonard Joel
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Prints and multiples, often thought of as the poor relations of unique artworks, are enjoying an extended moment in the limelight. Their time has come for a confluence of reasons.
They’re often a more affordable way to collect an artist whose paintings and other unique works may be out of reach. They reproduce well online and have been boosted along in this era of spiralling online sales and a new and younger demographic entering the market. And they’re the predominant medium of some artists who are currently much in vogue, particularly street artists, such as Banksy and Invader, but also old-school printmakers such as Andy Warhol. The master of repetition and the sound grab, Warhol once famously quipped, “I want to be a machine,” and, true to his word, made a fine art of printing the same image over and over.