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I Fought The Law
I Fought The Law
Unsigned Print
Banksy
£10,000-£15,000 Guide
AUD15,000-AUD25,000 Guide
CAD15,000-CAD20,000 Guide
CNY80,000-CNY120,000 Guide
€10,000-€15,000 Guide
HKD90,000-HKD130,000 Guide
¥1,560,000-¥2,330,000 Guide
$10,000-$15,000 Guide
This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
Screenprint, 2004
Unsigned Print Edition of 500
H 70cm x W 70cm
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Critical Review
Banksy’s original wall art, I Fought The Law, is a three-colour screen print released by the British Street Artist in 2004 as an unsigned edition of 500.
I Fought The Law shows a photo-realistic black and white stencil figure of a man being pinned down by three other men, while a man in the foreground drinks what appears to be a bottle of beer. The man being pinned down by the group has just dropped a paintbrush covered in orange paint, with which he has graffitied ‘I Fought The Law And I Won’, on the wall behind them. The writing on the wall is a play on the infamous Clash song, ‘I Fought The Law and The Law Won.’
By subverting this phrase, Banksy makes a statement on how those who rise above the law and fight protocol are invariably knocked down by the jeering masses. Alternatively, it could be seen that, despite getting caught, the graffiti artist had already won – by writing on the wall, he had succeeded in getting his message out there despite what happened next. The positioning of the men in the image is a reversal of photographs capturing the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan.
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