That’s ridiculous. Why the ridiculous price?

Selling to the rich VIPS I guess

My vote for quandary of the year -that decision would eat at my soul

if people thought naming bethlehem as ur trip destination caused issues.. I cant wait until someone trys that

I'd assume these are being sent out from London.
It would be an interesting item to import or export through Israel.

So banksy allows a release of the sales end print at a ‘discount’ and gets praised.

He releases a ‘sculpture’ at an insane price and no one says anything...

Seems about right. Haha

Grappling hook vs mass produced print..... drop me out sunshine !

You act like you don't know what his originals and smaller editions sell for!??
These will become pretty rare once they get into the right hands.

He's been part of the art world, whether he likes it or not, for quite some time.

I think we can assume Banksy didn't hand make each one... but maybe he did! I don't know, and I don't think it matters. He didn't sculpt any of his sculptures, bronze rats, etc.

Nearest things I can compare these to is the small canvases, like Paranoid Pictures, that were editions of 25.
Like this one that sold recently for £112,500:
www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/contemporary-art-day-auction-l16025/lot.193.html

Bronze Rats are maybe more iconic, and slightly smaller edition, but also well over £100,000 (£137,000!)
www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/banksy-b-1975-bronze-rat-6060146-details.aspx

But only time will tell... A very short time after the COAs are delivered!

Interesting discussion though I would disagree with anyone who states the medium of sculpture is atypical for this artist. The atrium at bristol museum was all sculpture as was the inclusion of the village pet store.  Most of Dismaland was the same. There have been sculptures of sorts at most, if not all of his shows since the beginning. I'm not disagreeing to disagree but he's a pretty well rounded artist conceptually including the big screen.

Haring sculptures may be a tougher sell than the works on canvas or tarp but I believe that is true of most artists regardless. Richard Serra or James Turrell are about as good as it gets for installation but most collectors there eyeball the oil stick on paper for the former and the sky drawings and geometric wall pieces for the latter. Robert Indiana love is iconic in sculpture form yet the drawings, prints and canvas of the same do better by comparison. It's simply a more difficult medium for most collectors to wrap our collective heads around is my thinking but ymmv. Good luck in your decision either way.

Not a fan of this grappling hook,  I would love to buy his big taxidermy oily gull covered in sea slick that was the centre piece at the 'duck in the muck' game at dismaland.

I'm not too sure you will have to ask him

I love those rats. I was offered one by Laz for 6K. Sadly it was much more than I could afford. Not sure what they're valued at now, but entirely out of reach, that much I'm sure about.

Is there any evidence in the past of limited bansky pieces selling for less than retail?

My guess is no but many here know the answer without guessing.

If that's the case, you could recoup cost in a year and get your house. Houses are not once in a blue moon opportunities.

Good luck

Saw it and deleted my post, but was already quoted.