Banksy rat pictures set to fetch up to £120,000 at auction
Works by the street artist going under the hammer include a Placard Rat, and a Gangsta Rat on a bollard.
A number of Banksy’s rat pictures are expected to fetch up to £120,000 as they go up for auction alongside an array of works by other pioneering street artists.
The collection includes one of Banksy’s Placard Rats, which was originally sprayed on to a newsagent’s board in London’s Gray’s Inn Road in 2004.
The work was created in the hope that passers-by would add their own message to it but the one on offer has remained untouched and is expected to sell for between £30,000 and £40,000.
The collection of Banksy works is rounded off with an Umbrella Rat, which was sprayed on to a large steel door in an S-Bahn station in Berlin’s Mitte area in 2004. It is expected to go for between £20,000 and £40,000.
Since then he has caught the public eye with installations such as the Dismaland theme park he opened in Weston-Super-Mare in 2015 and most recently a tree mural in the London Borough of Islington.
Other works going under the hammer on Thursday July 11 as part of Julien’s Auctions Street Art Invasion sale in Los Angeles include a Money Bag mosaic created by Invader, which was affixed to the side of a building in Hong Kong in 2015 and is expected to fetch between £8,000 and £10,000.
An alien mosaic thought to be one of Invader’s earliest works is also on offer and is expected to sell for between £4,500 and £6,500.
Anyone wishing to bid on the lots must register before the sale by emailing info@juliensauctions.com.
