hmmm... well, may depend on what you're into... i've had interest in banksy stuff as i see the artist as a 'thought leader' in the art world... don't quite understand what the artist was experiencing and/or commenting on with pieces like Flower Thrower - but as someone who is really interested in political, social, economic sort of issues etc - i've gravitated to pieces like NOLA, Barcode and many others etc... but 12k is alot of money, i would go signed banksy prints, at a minimum, at this early stage in the banksy collection point - think the longer term value prospects may be good... but, then again, i ain't that smart about art, and this is probably yet another useless post...

38 posts in a day and then all of a sudden silence. Did everybody go out looking for a 15K, i mean "20somethingK" canvas.

I think that its all been said, but I agree with people who have said signed prints, £15k isn't gonna buy you much og from Banksy these days... Why not go for Radar Rat great compromise between OG and print, my dream Banksy!

Let us know what you decide on?

Dice - how does signed/unsigned compare 1/2 way through the 10 years? 

If the original post from 2012 was questioning buy ONE signed print or multiple unsigned - then the unsigned would now be worth more.  Mainly because of GWB.

So thats why I thought it was interesting - because it went against my initial reaction of "buy signed".

2017 scenario is a different matter  

Interesting comments and it's something ive been thinking about for a little while now, mostly cause ive no wall space left! Ive several pieces by other artisits (vhils, dface, faile, tom french, micallef, neate) plus TM, Grannies and Applause - MQ signed.

Im starting to think about consolidating all of it and going for one, possibly two signed pieces - which though!?

IMO and I think a lot will disagree with me, is that for u/s prints the equaliser is the PC COA.

I'm not saying that there is a direct comparison but the PC COA for u/s prints stands for a lot.

The u/s is very undervalued at present and will only rise.

What about that ?

Thing there is still some signed trolleys ? New edition ?

Trolleys is one of my dreamy one, even if its a bit big... LA edition maybe smaller.

Alright, i'll give my 2 cents (as an art professional). 

This is regardless of Banksy per se. 

In terms of valuation and future increase in value, it will in 99% grow as such (apart from certain outliers) :
- Original work
- Signed print
- Unsigned Print

Original works with always gain more value over time. I'll give you an example : 

I kow of a small nara painting that was purchased in 99, it was bought directly through the gallery for about $10k. Price of this painting now (and sold) $1 million. At the same time, the prints were probably a few hundred bucks. 

There is an unsigned print (ed of 500) that was released in 08 for $500 (maybe $800) I think which used to sell now around $7/8k. 

Afterwards, there are obviously more factors such as size (the bigger the better) / the edition size (unique, small edition vs bigger one), year (early is not always better and late is not always better either, there are sweet spots) and obviously the subject (gwrb vs toxic mary for instance or even a cwsb). [the attractivity of the subject can also evolve other time]

And honestly this is a pretty standard thing around for 99% of the market.

So if you're thinking in terms of investment, it's better to go original first, then signed limited, then unsigned/larger edition. 

An interesting thought and just my opinion (i mentionned it a few times before) :

[Disclaimer I do not own any work by Mr Bs anymore. I sold everything before the price hike (and no I don't have sour grapes because of it)]

you usually as well have a clear pretty important median price multipler marks between all classes of art (obviously taking away the outliers poor canvas vs best print etc). The only "niche" I don't really see that applied (in terms of percentage mark and relativity) is street art especially Mr B.

As much as his prints value multiplied exponentially, his OGs didn't have the same multiplier. I remember paranoid ed of 30 used to sell for around 20k when most signed were 3.5. I might be wrong but not sure that they sell now for 250k (probably around 80/100?). This usually works the other way around. In traditional art market, apart from outliers, you would have  prices more like (pure speculation and just in terms of ratio)  signed prints from 3.5k then  to 8/12k now , canvas 25k then to 100/130k (maybe even more). 


I m making up prices to illustrate as i haven't really followed banksy's market closely to pull out accurate data. 

Most unsigned sell for 6 to 14k gbp (apart from outliers like kate or gwrb)
Signed prints from 20k to 35k
originals 60k to 300k (i'm also taking out massive outliers here) 

If you take like nara (to stay contemporary) for example you re gonna have :
unsigned 3k- 7k
signed 8k to 16k 
drawing 50k to 150k 
paintings (right now probably) 400k-1.5m

If you look in terms of ratio it's way more spaced out. Afterwards, don't come out at me as I just said I didn't take accurate data (but I could do that though)

So technically, at of now, his print are ever overvalued or his canvases undervalued, depending on the way you look at it. Not in term of their current actual price but related to each other around the different art classes. 

Obviously, all is relative and there are a lot of parameters. 

Interesting post
Agreeing with Bren but with the added thought that is there a better print signed, unsigned or original that the majority would prefer to hang on their wall than a Banksy ?
Its whether any are within budget!
Merry Christmas!!!

Funny to read 8 years later 😅

Same scenario with the gdp posters now

2017 phearloathing

Did you call your mum?

It's not though is it.... GDP posters won't be getting a COA at any point.

Thats a HUUUUUUUUUGE difference.