yes i mostly certainly have noticed.

right now the dip could be due to....
holidays
adam neate
found
etc.

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also sometimes depends how many are on ebay at the time, people sometimes seem to think they will wait for the next one if there are a few!

Plus lots of available cash just been spent on Micallef!!

Sepia gone from 3.0-4.2k in about a month, no decline there

same goes for love rat

Like any commodity market it will go up and down....

I think people have been spending a lot on Micallef of late, but banksy is still very strong. I think there is a natural cieling price that each signed print hits. The average is £5000, this is why we see Morons, Applause and Grannies just starting to hit it...

I find £5000 a mental barrier too, spending more on art, especially a print, is tough at this level.


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While there may be a small dip - it probably due to there being such a rapid peak for unsigned.

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I like many won't care, either cos they want to buy and welcome any drop or they're owners and are not selling, or at least not for a while.

hold on a sec, let me get this straight. prices can go down as well as up? no , i'd get onto ebay, there must be a fault.

I personally would like a huge crash! I only want it to last a month or two so I can buy all the prints I missed out on. After that, let those prices soar higher and higher!

;D - And not only can they go down as well as up, despite what everyone seems to think they can also become practically worthless as the art market is as shallow as any other ! For evidence of this, I personally wonder whether people are currently directing their money into Beejoir and others ... maybe this has created a slight dip ? By the way, before you throw pitch forks at me, you may be reassured to know that I personally don't actually own a banksy, so any dip, dent or complete drop in the market is helpful to me personally ! But it should be considered that there are trends in art like everything else and most investment is due to peices being representative of a time/period or era ... Banksy prints certainly are, but so are several others ....

Anything's possible but highly inlikely in my opinon. Even though I think Banksy work is overpriced and overhyped as far as values go he is pretty well established in the proper art world.

I mean $16,000 currently on ebay for a signed flying copper? That's about double what a rational art market should price it at in my opinon. And that opinon is based on what prints in editions as large as Banksy's sell for by other top living artists in the world. (i.e Ed Ruscha, John Currin, Damien Hirst, etc.) If I'm spending that much money. I could definitely recommend some much rarer and probably original pieces by some really great established artist.

CBL - when compared to the prices Mr B's prints have reached in a few short years, most of those prices actually look fairly reasonable to me. Particularly, bearing in mind these are gallery prices.

Right, but how long have those guys been dead? And look at the editions sizes. And consider that I highly doubt any of those prints were also released in an unsigned edition of 500!

For the price of 1 signed flying copper you can seriously get a signed print by Jeff Koons, (1-2k)Ed Ruscha, (2-3k) Robert Rauschenberg, (1-4k) and Damien Hirst (3k-10k). Of course those guys also may have prints that sell for tens of thousands but if you're thrifty you can find signed editions by these guys for an insane fraction of what Banksy's are going for. And you can still get some really great Warhol Signed prints for anywhere form $5,0000-$20,000. (20 years after he died) And if I had money to blow like that I would definitely buy say Warhol's mick jagger print for 20k than a Flying Copper. I also own one painting by an artist in the Satchi collection for example. Cost me less than what some of Banksy's unsigned prints in editions of 500 go for. The painting is small, but still. I guess to each his own.

I can understand if it's a really special Banksy print like Radar Rat or Kate Moss, but Flying Copper? Are you serious? A dip for 1 or 2 weeks? In my opinon you're looking at about 1 or 2 years of stagnation after this kind of rise. I'm not claiming they'll collapse. But at this point. I think prices will be going nowhere for a long time. Slight rise slight dip. And I'm really trying to keep level headed about it.

I think it comes down to supply and demand. If there is a shortage of Banksy's on offer then those who want to own, have to compete financially to get. Therefore the price remains bouyant. If the market is flooded then, as we have seen, the price tends to stay steady. I think that because a lot of people have spent large sums recently and are selling in order to recoup, the glut is actually keeping the prices quite steady. Hope that makes sense.