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Screenprint in colours. Hand-signed, numbered, and blind stamped.// I Fought The Law captures Banksy at the height of his subversive powers, a boldly political screenprint that inverts the visual language of law enforcement to challenge institutional authority. Two policemen crouch in poses of devotion, not over weapons or evidence, but over a small cluster of flowers growing from the pavement — an inversion so complete and so perfectly executed that it carries devastating philosophical force. The composition is anchored by blazing orange text reading 'I FOUGHT THE LAW AND I W...' (the phrase cutting off mid-word, invoking the song by The Clash while suggesting that language itself is truncated, incomplete), rendered in a colour that burns against the muted black-and-white palette of the figures and their urban context. Banksy's logic here is deceptively simple: if police officers — symbols of institutional power, coercion, and control — are depicted with absolute seriousness and reverence focussed on nature and beauty, then perhaps the true law, the true authority worth defending, is the organic world and not the machinery of state. The work was created in 2004, during Banksy's peak period of street-level productivity and political conviction, when his transition to the gallery system was still contested and his work retained maximum provocative power. This signed and numbered edition of 150 remains a cornerstone of his printed oeuvre, representing the marriage of graphic sophistication with political clarity. The bold orange against black and white is also technically masterful, demonstrating complete command of the screenprint medium.
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Screenprint in colours. Hand-signed, numbered, and blind stamped.// I Fought The Law captures Banksy at the height of his subversive powers, a boldly political screenprint that inverts the visual language of law enforcement to challenge institutional authority. Two policemen crouch in poses of devotion, not over weapons or evidence, but over a small cluster of flowers growing from the pavement — an inversion so complete and so perfectly executed that it carries devastating philosophical force. The composition is anchored by blazing orange text reading 'I FOUGHT THE LAW AND I W...' (the phrase cutting off mid-word, invoking the song by The Clash while suggesting that language itself is truncated, incomplete), rendered in a colour that burns against the muted black-and-white palette of the figures and their urban context. Banksy's logic here is deceptively simple: if police officers — symbols of institutional power, coercion, and control — are depicted with absolute seriousness and reverence focussed on nature and beauty, then perhaps the true law, the true authority worth defending, is the organic world and not the machinery of state. The work was created in 2004, during Banksy's peak period of street-level productivity and political conviction, when his transition to the gallery system was still contested and his work retained maximum provocative power. This signed and numbered edition of 150 remains a cornerstone of his printed oeuvre, representing the marriage of graphic sophistication with political clarity. The bold orange against black and white is also technically masterful, demonstrating complete command of the screenprint medium.
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Banksy
Barcode (unsigned), 2004
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
EUR 25,000 - 30,000
Banksy
Trolleys, 2007
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
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Banksy
Golf Sale (Unsigned), 2003
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
GBP 13,150
Banksy
Trolleys (Black & White Unsigned), 2007
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
GBP 14,870
Banksy
I Fought The Law, 2004, 2004
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
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Banksy
Love Is In The Air (Unsigned), 2003
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
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Banksy
Thrower Triptych (VIP), 2019
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
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Banksy
No Ball Games - Grey, 2009
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
GBP 70,000 - 80,000
Banksy
Laugh Now (unsigned), 2003
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
GBP 40,000 - 55,000
Banksy
Precision Bombing, 2000
Limited Edition Print
Mixed Media
GBP 250,000 - 280,000
Banksy
Girl With A Balloon, 2004
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
GBP 240,000 - 270,000
Banksy
Trolley Hunters, 2007
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
GBP 30,000 - 40,000
Banksy
Barcode, 2004
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
GBP 70,000 - 90,000
Banksy
Sale Ends (v2), 2017
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
GBP 28,000 - 35,000
Banksy
Four Soup Cans - Gold On Cream, 2005
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
GBP 50,000 - 70,000
Banksy
Girl With A Balloon (unsigned), 2004
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
GBP 90,000 - 110,000
Banksy
Heavy Weaponry, 2004
Limited Edition Print
Mixed Media
GBP 150,000 - 170,000
Banksy
Pulp Fiction (unsigned), 2004
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
GBP 40,000 - 50,000
Banksy
Grannies, 2006
Limited Edition Print
Silkscreen
USD 32,000 - 38,000
Banksy
Morons (Sepia), 2007
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
USD 80,000 - 95,000
Banksy
Turf War , 2003
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
GBP 34,800
Banksy
Applause, 2006
Limited Edition Print
Screen-print
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