Each to their own...

6:02 pacific and already sold out.

Exactly the same for me! Loved this print too, one day i might get me a kawasaki!

Just hoping that too! Not like good old pow is it! :-) Now it's the old 'i'll just try for another 5 minutes' thing!

My fiance scored one! WhooHoo!

Not really my thing but I can see why girl friends would like it..

I am looking for one have plenty for trades if anyone is interested PM me plz.

sorry pfffffffffft, mistaken identity

Audrey is a really great artist and a sweet girl. Got to meet her at her show (where she had two prints for $50, much more like it)

Still $220 for a giclee? Steep.

She is really, really huge in LA and the US. Pop surrealism really hasn't had much penetration in Europe. But I really can't see how people can justify those prices given that she's 26 and releasing a lot of work. I think she's a bit faddish, but she's very shrewd and I think she'll hit additional price peaks.

Mid size originals priced at $8K on wood go almost immediately.

She still has the Jonathan Levine Gallery show in 2010!

(its good to see pop surrealists get mentioned on the board once in a while.)

It funny, most people fall into either the Amy Sol or the Audrey Kawasaki category. I find Amy too be too cutesy and Anime for my taste - but I appreciate her talent.

The pop surrealist world seems so much more personal taste driven than the urban art world - where street stature, what is being said in the work, and mastery of set techniques (i.e. stenciling) seem to be driving factors.

In a sense, urban art seems easier to judge and assign relative values to because of those reasons - not to say that as art, it isn't highly subjective in aesthetic valuation - only to say that there are more "objective" value judgements governing "urban" art versus pop surrealism.

POW/Bansky should do this ! !

From Audrey kawasaki - -
after reading all the feedbacks about the last print sale,
and after the poll, (thankyou to those who voted by the way!)
ive decided its time for the next Time Limited Edition Print Sale!
just in time for the holiday season too.

for those of you who have not been successful with the past print sale
this is your chance!

here's how it'll work:
on December 6th, Saturday, between 12pm to 1pm pacific time
you can log-on on my shop and click the Purchase button,
and you will be guaranteed a print!!
no need to stand by nervously at your computer.
as long as it's between the hour, your print will be reserved!

-limit of one per customer.
-all prints will be signed and numbered in the image area.
-the edition size will be determined after the sale.
-the size of this print is smaller than the original.
-does not have the option of framing.


~ Two Sisters ~
giclee print on 100% cotton archival fine art paper
size: 13"x17" on a 14x"18"sheet

signed and numbered
price: $100
shipping cost: US $6 / int'l $10

available for purchase:
~December 6th, Saturday. 12pm~1pm pacific time
~check here for the exact time and date in your time zone~

~Happy Holidays~

Doesn't have to be 10,000 if they have it priced right!

Lets take a Bansky image, say "S&S."

The demand is dictated by us - the aggregate of Banksy collectors - what we are willing or can pay for a Banksy - and we all know our limit.

Now take supply for "S&S" which was an edition of 500.

Obviously, demand for "S&S" at £525.00 was greater than the 500 ed.

But what if S&S was £1,000.00? What if it was £2,000.00? At some point, the demand for a Bansky at that price is less than the edition size.

BUT The KEY IS THIS....

Part of the valuation of art is determined by the perceived future supply and demand value!

I never bought the Unlimited run Banksy, partly because anyone could have! Plus, no one would buy a Banksy from POW if they knew they could buy THE SAME print cheaper on Ebay later (assuming authentication and what not)

The brilliance of Audrey's approach is that you can't be sure if Audrey's print is going to have significant enough of a secondary market value.

Sure, 10,000 of us bum rush POW when we know that it will cost £3,000 for Banksy's "Nola" print later, but would anyone buy a Banksy print if you knew you could buy it cheaper tomorrow???

But turn the tables, if the Banksy was £3,000 and released with this same 1 hour signing window. Talk about big decisions for flippers! How many people would go for that deal?

***gasp*** You'd actually have to assess a Banksy for whether the image would become more and more popular overtime to determine if it was worth it!

And don't forget about economic's substitution effect! Why pay £3K for a print when you can get a S/N Moron's with a lower edition for nearly the same price?

I would say that at £3K, Banksy would sell around 350 prints under this pricing structure. (essentially market equilibrium for 'Nola')

At £2K, maybe 2,000, for a strong piece.

Honestly, you could probably use econometrics to draft a pretty good market projections based on past releases to figure out what the equilibrium point would be for an unlimited edition for limited time.

I will say also the size of Banksy's market for a print release is partly determined also by imperfect information...

Even if hypothetically Mr. B dropped a similar S/N unlimited ed for just £1 for a window of 10 minutes, I'd be surprised if the total sales topped 12,000 (assuming POW works perfectly) because many people wouldn't hear about it in time.

Really, how many Banksy fans are ACTIVELY trying to score a print of his out there? Maybe 15,000? How many are obsessively trying to score a Banksy print such that they're glued to their computers enough to take advantage of a random drop, 10 minute window, price at £550? 1,500?

There was the soup can litho that served the unlimited purpose. Maybe they should do that again with a new image?

But all of this you describe is way too complicated and not really necessary imo.

Why are some people so insistant that that POW price most people out of buying a Banksy. I have never flipped anything in my life but I would not pay £3000 for a Banksy print for the same reason that I don't buy them from Ebay, I can't afford that price. That is not what Banksy or POW are about. POW should keep doing what they are doing and ignore the idiots who want to out price the people who cannot afford huge prices. It says nothing about Banksy fans but more about people with money.