Urban Art Association

true,
agreed

friends

no helicopter guns ships needed,

thats why it ended
with the last post,

>:(Anyway....nice stickers alsbabar,were there any others?
Lady?Arabic writing?Show me

does 20k for 2 sound a bit steep???

Wrapping paper and barbed wire.

Also remember how limited these are. I think only 15 in the ENTIRE WORLD. Very soon these will disappear to rarely surface for sale.

Cheers guys I though it sounded like a good deal but need some advice on the price.

I will post pics when I see them in the flesh

You really are one miserable sod aren't you

Darjeeling
I have come to the conclusion that you really dont have a clue when pricing up certain work by Banksy.
FYI the towers where sold for all different prices via a secret ( or not so secret as you could raise your bids afterwards ) auction

From what I can gather the wooden ones went from anywhere between £4000 - £12000 each
Thus the value is what the winning bidders have decided to pay for them at the time.

I have no idea what they would go for in a blue chip auction like southerbys / bonhams / christies etc , but as these are very rare compared to print runs ( at a guess there must be 15000 + prints in circulation ) I would have a very well educated guess that they would go for a lot more than $16K

When have you EVER seen anything purchased direct from Source go for less than what was paid for it.
The deal with these is that to date the only other non prints , books , notes etc that I have seen Banksy do was the small edition of Bronze rats ( would have loved to have bought one of those )

Oh and fwiw if I would have listened to you advise regarding taking £15k -£25k for my Canvas then I think I would have been crying for a very long time

Wow that hurts


go on


possibly, but speculation, and no guarantee, and auction house fees and fees and fees


You haven't been around much have you.

And the point is???


Well to each his own, I don't know if I'd be crying for a very long time myself if someone paid me $50000 for editioned canvas that I paid a couple hundred for. ANd many of those canvases sold for much less just last year. But good for you.

Anyway, your post says nothing as evidenced above. Like you said these towers sold for about $16k in bethelehem and later sold for about $16k on ebay. What you say just plain doesn't make sense at all. These have been put up for bids twice to Banksy afficianados twice and this is what it came in at. If you think its undervalued then you should have ponied up yourself and bid it up to dizzying heights. And if you think it's undervalued because prints can sell in the same range then maybe that means prints are overrvalued eh? It can also mean that in art IMAGE is everything. The towers are small, unattractive and they're relatively insignificant because they are NOT iconic. Nobody would have a freaking clue that Banksy made them if it weren't for the banksy sig on the bottom. And that's why they didn't go for that much. Where as his prints are usually pretty identifiable and iconic therefore sought after.

Again the market has twice priced them at $16000 I don't see how your claim that they are way undervalued means anything. Maybe in a year they'll go for more. Maybe in a year they'll go for less. But then again maybe you have one and think you should be able to sell it for 100k of course. Why else would you buy it? Just get the fook off your high horse.

Why? Please explain to this simple minded soul the aesthetic quality of a Tower. I'm dying to know.

Ditto Mike, but I will gladly accept someones opinion to the contrary, but I've yet to read a convincing case.

the 15 banksy towers represent the 15 watch towers that surrounds the city of bethlehem, given that you can only get these at Santas Ghetto in, yes Bethlehem, they are very poignant symbols of what the object of Santas Ghetto was about - of course, I am not expert, this is just my opinion and what they represent

different strokes mike