Hey illicey.
where was the charity auction. 
was the print on wood the choppers with pink bow.

Hi,

Thanks for sending through the Dreweatts.

So I can assure you that I am not trying to drive up prices for personal gain by stoking the propaganda wagon. I live in Asia and have no banksy prints but keep an eye on the market and am interested when something I like comes up which, is at a fair market price and has logistics that work.

I appreciate that over the last (say) year there have been auctions where pieces remained unsold, could be regarded as relative 'bargains' or indeed sold below estimate, after all an auction is a little like fishing. However, from what I can see the more desirable signed prints and canvases have been on the steady increase. I take unsigned prints out of this as I do believe they have a ceiling and will therefore not fluctuate at the same levels.

Recently the more desirable or rare prints (barcode, laugh now, pulp fiction, radar, LITTA and even some interesting Nola colorways) have been banded around at min 10k upwards to 20k. Moreover CYW starting price from 6k upwards (including that freakish 17k at Bonhams) and a rude copper with spray paint set at 20k. In my eyes these have moved upwards and (not surprisingly) a lot of the UK galleries have said that same and actioned it through higher prices (Hang up, taylor gallery ect..).

I was just interested to see people's perception and comments.
-whether his lack of recent work has driven this.
-whether it's not true at all
-whether it is galleries doing the old de beers trick ect..

Me personally, I have a lot of Faile work and it my view is that their stuff is going the other way... and no, I don't want to sell anything;-) ...

I feel another pop just around the corner

No more prints.

Is that from an official source - same things were being said about Choe 3 months ago.....

Why so high? Years of hyping his stuff up that's why!

Go on then ?

Sundowner
That was a very carefully worded sentence, if ever I saw one.

HB

Is it? Do you own one then Einstein?

there have been some nice banksy images released in the last year.

aw man, i didn't!  I moved recently so may be catching up with me in the forwarding process.  Was amazing on saturday to watch all the coverage of the one year anniversary though

An interesting debate certainly, times have changed and certainly the mess preceding the last set of releases plus ridiculous secondary profits have led to a 'rethink'.

License to print money, innit.

Need some cash, make a new garish Nola colourway and flog it under the table to the VIP clients.

Easy.

No wonder prices rise for the standard images.

I take it that you all mean cyw/nola prices are soaring rather than all prints?

Reminiscent of every Dolk thread on here regarding prices where relatively little has happened for a long time prices ... Other than with the 'riot' prints ie. two images.