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Love it
Not the right time for such a spending but will maybe regret it…

are you getting no offers or unhappy with the work offered or the prices?

Rennes was released in 2011 in an edition of 150 and is his best standard edition print in my opinion. i reluctantly sold mine a few years back for my full asking price ($15k) and haven't seen anything available since.
(1) it functions like a large detailed sketch for one of Blu's most iconic murals;

(2) is has classic Blu OCD features (where a lot of little things - in this case manmade products like cars, trucks, monitors, a bed, guns, missiles (everything including the kitchen sink) and a dog - is combined into a giant robotic thing (examining and holding a blood red heart));

(3) it is politically engaged and open to political interpretation (e.g., the monster consumer society considering/on the verge of possibly crushing a heart); &

(4) it is beautiful/sublime, with countless objects lovingly rendered, and nice to live with (i mention this because some of Blu's works are painful to look at).


Rennes UV was released in 2012 in a varied edition of 25 and many of them were messy (too messy on the eyes and heart for me -- mine has clear eyes and heart). 

i missed the release of Headquarters UV but believe it was over 10 years ago and also in a similar sized varied edition. One was on Artsy for ~ $45k but i don't know if it ever sold. 

what is the best of these you've seen for sale at what pricing? adding transparency to your quest - like an offer - might help shake some loose (and/or demonstrate that these priceless works but a true master who released only a small fraction of the work of his peers are all locked down with collectors who are keeping them) 

I know of a Rennes UV for sale for €10000 right now but it’s not my favorite one. The Headquartes UV they were asking €20000. I didn’t pay anything close to that for any of my Blu prints including my Demos UV but willing to discuss a price with anybody that actually has one of any of those pieces for sale.

Yes I don’t think they are realistic at all. That’s why I didn’t buy them but I am still on the hunt for a Rennes, Rennes UV, Headquarters UV, and any of the Ericailcane x Blu collabs. It was a Headquarters unique version they were asking €20000 for though and people are free to ask whatever they want but I just am not willing to overpay like that. I would never have sold my Headquarters for 1700£ though so that’s unfortunate for the consigner lol

thank you for posting the price (scroll up to me asking someone to post if they saw it as it closed in the middle of the night for me). i think it was 25% fees = £2125 (=~$2734) which sounds like a deal to me given Blu's prints.

fwiw, i view auctions as reflecting the current price for the particular auction (and think of it as a reference or floor). many prospective buyers don't participate in auctions at all, are not aware of the particular auction (or, like me, are out of the time zone to even follow the close). read through this thread and you'll find works that sold below what others would have paid but they failed to register or didn't anticipate the lack of competition. it might have sold for 2x or 5x or 10x in the right context (and the seller may not have been in a position to wait for a better price -- life sometimes forces fire sales but those don't reset all pricing). that particular print was outside of the edition but signed (i do not know how that impacts pricing but suspect some print folks want numbered edition). 

nice! i haven't seen anything since you asked about this in 2022 and my answer then is similar (the etchings should be more than the standard edition prints - although maybe on par with Rennes standard edition (i sold mine for $15k) - and less than the unique variant prints (asking price for those has been in the range of $20k-45k, though some have sold at auction for less and some less compelling examples of Rennes UV reportedly have asking prices around $10k). in other words, i think $10k-20k is reasonable for the etchings (not necessarily a fast sale).  

i have another etching from the same LAZ show and have thought about selling it over the years (it just got bounced off the wall again), but cannot figure out how/where. i am a true believer in Blu given he is one of the OGs from when street art went 2.0 (as noted before here and Lazarides said as noted here), have a large collection of his work (and am protecting Money Shark), and yet his output, counting every print from every edition, is less than 2000 total

imho, auctions risk selling for well below what it might sell for at a gallery. selling through a gallery risks that it would have gone for more at auction and requires waiting for the right buyer, but i have not seen Blu's work blowing out auctions and the art market is currently pretty cold so the downside of auction risks seems higher than the upside. my current thinking is a gallery listing on Artsy might be the best option for Blu at the moment. i am going to cross post this on the Blu thread (which is active, and may get more comments). 

Someone created an instagram account collecting all Blu artworks on papers, maybe someone here
Anyway it's a nice thing: www.instagram.com/blu_files/

nice - thanks for sharing.

& not yet all - they're missing prints (including all Studio Cromie, the other two etchings, and some POW) & a ton of drawings, but looks like they're just getting started, hopefully they'll fill in more blanks 

To be honest sometimes I think how he, and artists like him, gain moneys Probably they do a simple life selling orginals sometimes, or they could do another 9-5 work

never seen so many posts about a single artist. 

I still regret not picking up one of his drawings when I had the chance