When I looked at it I thought they had hidden the signature under the mount board. I checked mine and it is signed by the tail.
If I'd paid £500 for an unsigned print back in 2005 I would have taken it back to be signed. £500 was alot for a signed print in those not so distant days.

wasnt the numbering on the wrong side? should be on the left not right?

WOW, just read this thread, can't beleive the results!!

One thing really puzzling me, why would anyone pay 2.5k for Uzi Lovers when you can still buy them from Laz Newcastle for face value?

Great to see many of you guys at the auction. I guess all galleries were present; TLSG, POW, Laz, Red Propeller, BRP, etc.

Thanks to Romanywg for the programme, and chat about his plans.

Great news for Nick Walker collectors, his star is rightfully rising. Also an eye watering price paid for a Space Invader!

I'm off to interview Guy Denning for Auction Saboteur.

sorry if this link has already been posted, but I found it a good read

www.ft.com/cms/s/0/12600af6-d457-11dc-a8c6-0000779fd2ac.html

All photos and Auction estimates and hammer prices can be found here.
www.flickr.com/photos/organize/?start_tab=one_set72157603861597049

Great thread.

I'd love to know what the artists make of all the publicity; on the one hand they need to get their work out there - but on the other hand they must be in disbelief about their respective successes after an event like this (i.e. street art vs. mainstream).

Anyway...must send back my black Centurion card back to AMEX.

A snip at 13k

Still have a WSM going! Yours for 10k. Oi Oi! I jest!

Amazing... Im gobsmacked... I dont get to drop in here much due to other commitments, but the Bonhams link the forum sent me has made me return to the fold

As a few know, Ive 'a few' pieces of 'Urban Art' LOL... but I guess I now should worry about quite what my living room is now worth... eeek.

Anyway... This Radar Rat... Mine was unsiged when I picked it up from POW back in '05 and I didnt notice - I had an arm full of stuff from them that day.. ahh happy days when £1300 would buy you some Dface and Faile canvases along with some signed prints from the same as well as some Banksy prints... That day I had the last signed Flying Copper they had... Anyway I digress... The RR pirnt... I sent mine back and they got it signed and sent it back to me. So not all were signed... in discussion with POW at the time it seems Santas Ghetto was so mad that this kind of slip up could occur...

What was interesting was the estimate for this RadarRat print was that it was for 5-7k when some have recently been seen at 25k in galleries and one sold for £16k on ebay... so they must have assumed an unsigned print was just that, original but unsigned and priced the estimate accordingly...

I wish I could have been there... Its a while since I emigrated and I wonder if we will get a Sydney one...

Not quite... they don't give you much more and still allow amex to treat you like shit

Banksy's Chimpanzee Picture Sells for 228,000 Pounds (Update1)

By Scott Reyburn

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Banksy's picture of chimpanzees carrying sandwich boards sold for 228,000 pounds ($446,000) in London as Bonhams held its first auction of ``Urban Art.''

The price, including fees, beat the estimate of 150,000 pounds to 200,000 pounds for the 6-meter-wide mural that had once hung in a nightclub in Brighton. The sale coincides with a week of contemporary and impressionist auctions in London, the art market's first test this year amid investment losses.

Bonhams said that a crowd of more than 500 people crammed into its Bond Street saleroom to see the 74-lot auction raise about a million pounds with fees, compared with a lower estimate of around 550,000 pounds. Only one lot failed to sell.

``It felt like a momentous occasion,'' said Mike Snelle of the East London gallery, the Black Rat Press. ``This auction signified a real acceptance of street art.''

Banksy, a Bristol-born anonymous graffiti artist, spray- painted the stenciled ``Laugh Now'' in 2002. The paint-on-wood picture shows a row of chimpanzees carrying sandwich boards prophesying, ``Laugh now, but one day we'll be in charge.'' The work, one of 22 Banksys on offer, was bought by a private U.K. buyer in the room.

``The real story of the auction,'' Snelle said, ``was that there's more to street art than Banksy. The real star of the night was Nick Walker.''

Mooning Mona

Walker is a 39-year-old graffiti artist who lives in Banksy's home city of Bristol. His spray-paint-on-canvas work, ``Moona Lisa,'' dating from 2006 -- showing La Giaconda exposing her bottom --- sold for a record 54,000 pounds with fees, against an estimate of 3,000 pounds to 5,000 pounds.

Walker's 2007 limited-edition print, ``The Morning After (London Version),'' fetched 5,400 pounds compared with an estimate of 400 pounds to 600 pounds. The print, showing a view of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament, had been sold last year by the Black Rat Press for 295 pounds, said Snelle.

``The Apprentice,'' a mixed-media-on-cardboard painting by London artist Adam Neate, sold for 43,200 pounds and Dan Baldwin's mixed-media-on-canvas diptych ``The End of Everything'' sold for 24,000 pounds, a record for the Brighton-based artist. Both paintings dated from 2007.

I feel amazed I have my Golf Sale print, which I believe is signed and numbered (I so need to check!). When prices are going for what they are I'm happy to have such a work of art. Shame I probably need to disclose it to my household insurance for being worth so much!

but does bonhams show REALLY reflect the going rates for these pieces? i mean, we are all still the same people here buying and selling....its nice to see pieces we also own sell for stupid money, but we all know that its not likely to happen again outside of one of these posh establishments...i guess in time, ebay and this board will answer this...