Urban Art Association

Was offered a red Liberty (Stik) print @ $1700 right before prices blew up. Thought it was too high and passed...

Shit.

Which of your previous PMs makes you want to cry the most?

Ahem...Thatcher?

LOL, i always buy what i like, thats why i am so bad at this game ;-)

I sold my Morons for £700 some years ago, only to buy another for over £3k

Also selling my Invader pieces 6 months ago, whoops.

Oh and swapping my Banksy CWSB for some Neate prints

Stik's works for me. Passed on almost every single one as I thought they were too expensive! Ha!!!

I was just about to remind you about that..

Although not done via PM, I passed on a FC for $3K (bought it for much more later on) and a Grin Reaper for $7K a few years ago.

I have a few...

Sold the last of my banksy prints right after the oscars because i thought the bubble was ridiculous (i still think there is a print bubble). Well Then NY happened.

4 years ago i passed on a small abstract murakami canvas for $10k that sold 3 months later at christie's for $70k

Ouch!  I am the worst person for that, my old stable was on SHS and we could look down onto Rivington when Banks was stencilling on the walls there, we were all like "He's not even a real graf guy!"  "Who's he tryin to kid??"  "Give it till Christmas etc etc"  The moral of the story is, Ladies and Gentlemen, never come to me for investment decisions in the next big thing!  I commonly try to caveat that with a bit of "I'm poor and happy" cliche but that's complete bollocks.   

Worst part is I'm an modern and early contemporary dealer so technically I suck at my job 😉. Or not that happens all the time to every dealer.

A few years back, I was trying to sell an early (weird) vintage avedon photograph. I offered it to like 4/5 of 5 dealers for like $7k. They all passed. I put it at sotheby's. Sold for $43k hammer.

That's what makes the art market weird and fascinating at the same time.

As much as you know how the market works, contemporary art is PR and marketing. And as of now the banksy print market is either in a bubble or canvases are undervalued (I think a little bit of both). It baffles me that someone would pay £30/35k for a stop and search when you could buy a full size happy copper painting on cardboard (sold last month) for £100k.

Hahaha don't really care. That s Just reality in the end.

Tbh screenprinting is like the lowest form of printing (apart from offset and digital). It requires no work on the part of the artist whatsoever. Thank mr warhol for the generalization of that medium.

If someone can name one other artist whose signed prints sell on average as much as banksy prints do (relative to OG prices) - I'll buy a few drinks.

Apart from the quality of his art, he has one of the best management I have ever seen. He is on par with Jeff Koons (whose art is mediocre).

Edit : If people thinks that mr B hasn't released anything for 7 years. Stuff are being sold and released privately for the select few and VIPs. No need to please the masses.

This is a post of self reflection

4 days ago my wife's uncle passed away unexpectedly.. "the cool uncle" and I said to myself I should have, I would have, I could have....

Then last night my neighbors wife came to my front door BANG BANG BANG. I open the door and she just screams Vinny. So I bolt over next door and find him face down, not breathing, no pulse and quickly began CPR. EMS finally show up yada yada he is dead. He leaves behind a wife of 43 years 3 kids and 1 newborn grandchild.

He was a very close friend and like minded sucessful entrepreneur. 5 days ago he sent me a text and the most intriguing email and I kept procrastinating my response. We were working on boring but cool patent stuff not related to art.

The reason I am posting this here is because you never know what is going to happen in life. As much as we all love art and chances that we missed out on, blood will always be thicker than water. I have personally seen at least 500 people die in my hands, in my previous profession and nothing has hit home like this one did.

So take what you want from this, but my message is expect the unexpectable and never take for granted what you have now. Regret is unavoidable but your future undeniable.

I now despise myself for being a procrastinator.

Not really.

1. 200% more is a lot. Especially when that puts it in the 6 figures.
2. Stop and search is a much more powerful image and imo more beautiful.
3. You don't know who is buying and what that person alreadyowns, maybe a happy copper.


I do agree many people, particularly here, are weird, not smart, not knowledgeable, lazy, blindfollowers when it comes to originals vs prints. 3k prints might fly. Or a beautiful original by a good lnown artist languishes.