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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Banksy, Morons, 2006
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Banksy

Morons, 2006
Serigraph numbered 432/500, with the publisher's blind stamp, Pictures on Walls, London, sold with exhibition frame.
30 x 22 in
432/500
$ 80,000.00
Banksy, Morons, 2006
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Banksy, Morons, 2006
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Money On Our Minds
Showing an auctioneer conducting a sale to a room packed with bidders, Morons is based on the historical moment when Van Gogh’s Sunflowers achieved a hammer price of £22.5 million at Christie’s on 30 March 1987, setting the record price for any work of art at auction. This moment marked the beginning of changes in the art market, with the emergence of mega lots achieving record prices. In the present work, the large canvas being auctioned humorously bears the words, in block capitals, “I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU MORONS ACTUALLY BUY THIS SHIT”. Banksy mocks the crowd, representing art collectors in general, who are ready to bid huge sums of money in order to acquire artworks. Some even doing so just to speculate and resell at higher prices, transforming the art market almost like a commodities trading market. Ironically, Banksy is now one also the subject of intense bidding from art collectors willing to purchase his works for very high prices. Morons is one of six prints belonging to the Barely Legal Print Set, which also includes Grannies, Trolleys, Applause, Sale Ends and Festival. Morons was originally released at Barely Legal as an edition of 100 unsigned prints, printed by Modern Multiples, that sold for $500 a piece.
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