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Turf War was first shown at Banksy’s 2006 exhibition of the same name, and depicts former prime minister Winston Churchill with a lime green mohican. The screen print was first seen in 2003 at Banksy’s Turf War solo exhibition – which took place in a warehouse on East London's Kingsland Road – where the original painting was suspended from the ceiling and surrounded by the artist’s famous Flying Coppers spray-painted on cardboard.
The Turf War screen prints were released shortly after the exhibition by Pictures on Walls as an edition of just 150 Turf War signed prints and 600 unsigned prints.
The original portrait of Churchill, known as The Roaring Lion, was taken by Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh in the chamber of the Speaker of the House of Commons in the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa on December 30, 1941, after Churchill delivered a speech on World War II. Considered to be one of the 20th century’s most significant political figures, Churchill is best remembered for his wartime triumphs rather than his messy dealings with colonialism, making this irreverent Banksy print all the more thought-provoking in its refusal to venerate Churchill in the way we are so used to seeing.
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