Keith-Haring 1980s

BASQIAT
Boy and a Dog in a Johnnypump – 1982
• Untitled, 1982
• by the late artist Jean-Michel
Basquiat has sold at auction in
New York for $110.5m (£85.4m).
• That is nearly double the price of
his previous most expensive work,
bought by the same person a year
ago.
• It has broken several other records
including becoming the most
expensive work by any US artist.
• It is also the highest price fetched
for any art by a black artist and the
first piece created since 1980 to
break the $100m mark.
Stencil Art

Rats by Blek
Le Rat in
Paris, France
1983
• Russian Soldier by Blek Le Rat
1991 in Paris, France
Many of Banksy’s rat artworks were influenced by pioneering French graffiti artist Xavier Prou, better known as Blek
le Rat, who is considered to be the ‘Father of Stencil Graffiti’ and whose rats has appeared around Paris since the 1980s.
Banksy has acknowledged Prou as an inspiration, saying “Every time I think I’ve painted something slightly original, I
find out that Blek le Rat has done it as well, only 20 years earlier.”
In return, Prou has said of Banksy: “People say he copies me, but I don’t think so… I feel what he is doing in London is
similar to the rock movement in the Sixties.”
Blek Le Rat,
Monalisa 2010
Banksy 2007-8
• Sold by Sotheby’s London, Love is in the
Bin is the partly shredded version of Girl
with Balloon painting. It is Banksy’s most
expensive physical artwork sold at an
auction.
• When Girl with Balloon sold for USD 1.4
million in October 2018, a shredder hidden in
the frame was switched on immediately after
the gavel fell, and half the painting went
through the shredder. This incident made
headlines across the globe and shocked the
art world.
• The owner of the shredded painting sold the
work — renamed Love is in the Bin — for
GBP 16 million (approx USD 25.4 million) at
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sale
on 14 October 2021. The lot was expected to
sell for an amount between GBP 4 million to
GBP 6 million (approx USD 5.5 million and
8.3 million).
• Adding the buyer’s premium, the price came
to GBP 18,582,000 (approx USD 29.5
million). The auction price of Love is in the
Bin is thus the highest paid for a Banksy
artwork.