• Christies auction house James Christie logo

    Sale 5417

    Post-War & Contemporary Art

    London, South Kensington

    |

    2 April 2008

    Browse Sale
Previous Lot
Search
Next Lot
    • Banksy (b. 1975)
    Lot 723

    Banksy (b. 1975)

    Balloon girl

    Price realised

    GBP 48,500

    Estimate

    GBP 20,000 - GBP 30,000

    Follow lot
    Add to Interests

    Banksy (b. 1975)
    Balloon girl
    stenciled 'Banksy' (on the overlap); numbered and dated '11/25, 2003 (on the stretcher)
    spray paint stencil on canvas
    16 x 16in. (40.6 x 40.6cm.)
    Executed in 2003, this work is number eleven from an edition of twenty-five

    Provenance

    Santa's Ghetto, London.
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.

    Contact us

    • Contact Client Service

      info@christies.com

      New York +1 212 636 2000

      London +44 (0)20 7839 9060

      infoasia@christies.com

      Asia +852 2760 1766

    Other information

    Special Notice

    No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
    Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.


    Recommended features

      • Live like a Rockefeller — Pabl
      • Live like a Rockefeller — Pablo Picasso’s Pomme

        Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s ’story teller’ for The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, looks at a painting that gives him ‘goose-bumps’

      • 5 minutes with… An early al-Tu
      • 5 minutes with… An early al-Tusi astronomical manuscript

        Islamic art specialist Romain Pingannaud on a 13th-century copy of a key compendium on astronomy and mathemetics

Share
Email
Copy link
Share
Email
Copy link