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$19,000-$40,000 VALUE (EST.)
$17,000-$35,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥90,000-¥180,000 VALUE (EST.)
€11,500-€23,000 VALUE (EST.)
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Screenprint, 2003
Unsigned Print Edition of 600
H 50cm x W 35cm
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Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
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May 2023 | Forum Auctions London - United Kingdom | Monkey Queen - Unsigned Print | |||
April 2023 | Bonhams New Bond Street - United Kingdom | Monkey Queen - Unsigned Print | |||
March 2023 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Monkey Queen - Unsigned Print | |||
December 2022 | Bonhams Knightsbridge - United Kingdom | Monkey Queen - Unsigned Print | |||
October 2022 | Bukowskis, Stockholm - Sweden | Monkey Queen - Unsigned Print | |||
September 2022 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Monkey Queen - Unsigned Print | |||
September 2022 | Bonhams Knightsbridge - United Kingdom | Monkey Queen - Unsigned Print |
Monkey Queen is one of Banksy’s earliest screen prints, released as an unsigned edition of 600 in 2003. Featuring a monkey wearing the late Queen Elizabeth II's jewels and coiffed hair against a mod-style target, the image was controversial enough to spark ‘Banksygate’ but is only exemplary of Banksy’s defiant anti-authoritarian attitude.
Monkey Queen is a quintessential example of Banksy’s daring, unapologetic humour. The colourful work depicts a monkey wearing all the ornamentation of a Queen -- crown, diamond necklace and earrings – in front of a background of red, white, blue, except not that of the Union Jack, more the ‘target’ symbol synonymous with Mods. The three colour artwork of the photo-realistic monkey in Banksy’s spray-stencil-style is reminiscent of his earlier work Laugh Now, in which he prophesizes a society run by our primate cousins. Having a monkey queen would be the ultimate symbol of monkeys taking over (as envisaged in Planet of the Apes). This painting first appeared at a youth centre’s club called The Chill Out Zone on Broad Street in Newent in around 2004.
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