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¥590,000-¥840,000 VALUE (EST.)
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Screenprint, 2004
Signed Print Edition of 150
H 50cm x W 70cm
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Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
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March 2022 | Tate Ward Auctions - United Kingdom | Pulp Fiction - Signed Print | |||
July 2021 | Forum Auctions London - United Kingdom | Pulp Fiction - Signed Print | |||
June 2021 | Bonhams New Bond Street - United Kingdom | Pulp Fiction - Signed Print | |||
April 2021 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Pulp Fiction - Signed Print | |||
March 2021 | Forum Auctions London - United Kingdom | Pulp Fiction - Signed Print | |||
December 2020 | Bonhams New Bond Street - United Kingdom | Pulp Fiction - Signed Print | |||
November 2020 | Tate Ward Auctions - United Kingdom | Pulp Fiction - Signed Print |
Pulp Fiction was released in 2004 as a signed screen print edition of 150 in the style of the original movie’s signature neo-noir aesthetic.
Pulp Fiction is a bold, striking black and white piece clearly informed by the neo-noir aesthetic of Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 cult film of the same title. The artwork shows Pulp Fiction actors John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson pointing bright yellow bananas at an out of shot antagonist which in the film were of course real guns. Through this interpretation, Banksy makes an anti-gun and anti-violence statement using popular culture and American cult cinema as his effective context. The movie Pulp Fiction, as well as Tarantino’s trademark style as a whole is known for excessive violence, and so with this print Banksy might just be commenting on the ridiculousness of that in itself. Other famous artworks such as Love Is In The Air depicting a masked protester throwing a bouquet of flowers, express a similarly powerful call for peaceful resolutions of conflict.
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