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 f
Share When I saw the painting, the guy was like, This will win me the Archibald. I knew immediately, No it won t.
Rachel agreed Kyle s portrait was never a contender , adding: I ve seen the painting of you. It s pretty unspeakably bad.
Poor effort: It s hideous. They painted me like a king from the olden days, Kyle said, noting how he resembled Henry VIII in the portrait
The artwork, which depicts Kyle as Henry VIII, was created by Arith Mohamad and was entered in the 2008 Archibald Prize.
However, artist Del Kathryn Barton won the $50,000 prize that year for her self portrait with her children Kell and Arella.
trick In choosing the Thom Roberts a portriff of Adam (Shane Simpson AM), as one of the finalists, the Archibald Prize Committee fell for the old trick… A) the portraidfhp does not look anything like Shane Baby and B) the i
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It was Andy Warhol who declared fashion to be âmore art than art isâ. Having made the leap from magazine fashion illustrator in the â50s to printing his now iconic Campbellâs Soup Cans on dresses in the â60s, no oneâs work has better exemplified the symbiotic nature of the two disciplines.