Sale Ends Banksy

Banksy, Sale Ends, signed screenprint edition of 150, 2007

Four cloaked figures pray and prostrate themselves beneath a huge red Sales Ends Today sign, surely one of Banksy’s most pointed pieces of commentary on capitalism and consumerism. This signed edition of 150 entitled Sale Ends is a jibe at the way in which we appear to worship at the alter of materialism - the figures have taken on an almost biblical feel, as though from a Renaissance piece. Wailing in horror and praying for the words on the sign not to be true. It is iconically Banksy with its black and white figures and then a bold block of red as is typical of Sale signs across the world.  It was first made available at the Barely Legal exhibition, which took place in California in 2006.