Urban Art Association

looking for Blu prints, cash ready

-headquarter
-gaza
-rennes

pm me if you want to sell

I have a blu cmyk stored flat,never framed and curious to current value

looking for headquarter 1150 eu ready

Anyone has an idea of Blu’s pricing for works on paper larger than 40 x 40 cm?

You can dm if you want.

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>>Anyone has an idea of Blu’s pricing for works on paper larger than 40 x 40 cm?


not exactly, but i do have some thoughts -


1. it should depend heavily on the quality of the work.

(a) for me, blu's iconic works are his giant murals and also his mural painted animated videos. the best murals are politically engaged, clever/simple/insightful, often with many small things making up a big thing (a superorganism). the murals are giant/uncollectible and so the sketches for the murals become the collectible works (and the prints related to the murals and the released video).

(b) i know of only three larger (~55x76 cm) iconic sketches that have come to market --

*this sketch (MS drawing) for the Money Shark mural in Barcelona (MS mural)

*a detailed sketch for the Cristo mural in Sao Paulo (Cristo)

(*) a detailed sketch (maybe black and white) for a wall in Grottaglie (cake)

(*) looking through Minima Muralia (&/or blublu.org), it is clear that there are a bunch more murals that might have detailed sketches (which would be amazing given the murals) and some of those could have come into the market as small drawings and as larger sketches, so there may be more.

(c) looking through blu's drawings (blu drawings) and having seen some other works for sale, it is also clear that there are less desirable blu drawings, ranging from the simple/not-iconic/not related to his mural practice (like the work currently offered on Artsy: www.artsy.net/artwork/blu-untitled) to the painful (ouch). from my perspective, these works should trade for significantly less than the iconic drawings regardless of size (and in Blu's case, should eventually end up less than a compelling etching or UV print)

2. i tried to figure out the value of a large iconic drawing at the beginning of 2018.

(a) at the time, i was told by a reasonable source with some knowledge that the small sketches were actively trading for between about 9000€ & 14,000€ (depending on the quality of the work).

(*) does anyone else have an update on this?

(b) there were no known secondary market sales of iconic large drawings so their value is hard to predict.

(c) Money Shark was €20,000 in 2010. blu's small drawings offered at the same time were priced at €3,600 (blu placed a premium of 5.5x on Money Shark versus the smaller drawings). if that same factor held to the 2018 prices i was told (5.5x 9000€ to 14,000€), that would yield a value of 49,500€ to 77,000€ (depending on image)

3. i am not certain of the price of the current not-iconic work on Artsy (www.artsy.net/artwork/blu-untitled), but i know similar works were recently priced at 25,000€ (and am not sure if they sold). similarly, the ebay asking price for his UV prints of Demos and Rennes are now 20,000€ (though unsold). this suggests that the above value (49,500€ to 77,000€) might be reasonable (though the market may not support it yet, not sure/time will tell).

Hello!

Curious on a price check for my Blu - Demos print from 2007 (i think?).

Thanks

Great print, probably my most favourite print by Blu.
They don't come up for sale that often.

How much more 😅?

Not even toilet paper? 😂

I'm looking for Rennes!!!

VERY NICE ONE,
but no COA...

I can't rest on why he stopped making art for everyone. with these prices it has become a business for rich

A bit power crazy , I usually commend 😬

1) i have nothing to do with Blu himself. There's nothing wrong to sell your art and make money. There's also nothing wrong with not being interested in doing so. 

2) As for COA being essential. I'm a private dealer so this is my job and daily life. I won't go into too much details but answer to what your assesment regarding COA is yes and no. What's the value of a COA is based on who makes them? COA is definately not essential if you can prove authenticity and/or provenance. Not every artists has an authenticity body like Banksy. The majority of works being sold on the market are sold without COA. It doesn't mean that they're fake.

3) I know who is the owner of that piece is and i can tell you if you cared to ask and check there is enough evidence of not only its provenance but also its authenticity.