Choose
Your Weapon
Banksy's Choose Your Weapon pays homage to Keith Haring, appropriating Haring's famous dog icon to imply that there are alternatives to violence, alluding to the idiom: “the pen is mightier than the sword”. Both Banksy and Haring choose art as their form of peaceful protest.
Banksy Choose Your Weapon For sale
Choose Your Weapon Value (5 Years)
Works from the Choose Your Weapon series by Banksy have a strong market value presence, with 109 auction appearances. Top performing works have achieved standout auction results, with peak hammer prices of £252000. Over the past 12 months, average values across the series have ranged from £25000 to £80000. The series shows an average annual growth rate of 10.02%.
Choose Your Weapon Market value
Auction Results
| Artwork | Auction Date | Auction House | Return to Seller | Hammer Price | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Choose Your Weapon (dark orange) Banksy Signed Print | 29 Jul 2025 | International Art Centre | £42,500 | £50,000 | £60,000 |
 Choose Your Weapon (sky blue) Banksy Signed Print | 1 Apr 2025 | Christie's London | £51,000 | £60,000 | £80,000 |
 Choose Your Weapon (cool grey) Banksy Signed Print | 19 Mar 2025 | Tate Ward Auctions | £29,750 | £35,000 | £45,000 |
 Choose Your Weapon (bright pink) Banksy Signed Print | 5 Mar 2025 | Forum Auctions London | £38,250 | £45,000 | £60,000 |
 Choose Your Weapon (light orange) Banksy Signed Print | 6 Jul 2024 | SBI Art Auction | £42,500 | £50,000 | £60,000 |
 Choose Your Weapon (lemon) Banksy Signed Print | 20 Mar 2024 | Sotheby's London | £34,000 | £40,000 | £50,000 |
 Choose Your Weapon (dark blue) Banksy Signed Print | 30 Oct 2023 | Bonhams New York | £51,000 | £60,000 | £70,000 |
 Choose Your Weapon (gold) Banksy Signed Print | 22 Feb 2023 | Forum Auctions London | £119,000 | £140,000 | £170,000 |
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Meaning & Analysis
First appearing in London in 2010, in Choose your Weapon Banksy nods to artist Keith Haring, by borrowing the New York-based artist’s Dog motif.
Shortly after the stencil first appeared on the street, it was boarded over. It then reappeared, framed and covered in Perspex. In August 2016, it was reported that the Perspex itself had been covered in posters and flyers obscuring it from view entirely. It is unknown if the work still exists in the same location, or if it is just obscured from view.
In December 2010 Pictures On Walls released limited edition Banksy prints depicting the mural to hordes of fans, many of whom queued for hours in the cold to get their hands on this coveted work. The queue notoriously spiralled out of control, with desperate fans pushing and shoving, which resulted in Banksy releasing a special queue jumping edition in grey for those who missed their chance.
The collection of prints is available in a variety of different colours: Bright Pink, Dark Blue, Dark Orange, Gold, Green, Khaki, Lemon, Light Orange, Magenta, Olive, Grey (Queue Jump), Red, Silver, Sky Blue, Slate, Soft Yellow, Turquoise and White. They depict a hooded man with dark clothing and a bandana hiding his face, a visual motif recurrent in Banksy’s stencil work and meant to signify a British disaffected youth. His menacing appearance is contrasted by his casual hand-in-the-pocket posture and his cartoon dog, who is chained and barking.
The connotation in much of the media at the time, and in Banksy’s own interpretation, is that the dog has become an alternative weapon on the streets of the UK.
