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Banksy Girl With Balloon Gold AP For Sale

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Banksy - Girl With Balloon Gold AP, 2004, Screen print 
Signed

Girl With Balloon Gold AP, 2004

Screen print Signed

27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in 70 x 50 cm

Edition

Edition of 22 (From Total 88 APs)

About this work

Banksy's Girl with Balloon Gold Print is an iconic artwork that has captured the imagination of art enthusiasts worldwide. Originally created as a stencil graffiti piece on a wall in London in 2002, Girl with Balloon has become one of Banksy's most recognizable and beloved images.The artwork depicts a young girl reaching out for a red heart-shaped balloon that is drifting away from her grasp. The image is simple yet poignant, conveying themes of innocence, loss, and the fleeting nature of happiness. Banksy's use of the red balloon as a symbol of love and hope, contrasted with the girl's outstretched hand and expression of longing, evokes a sense of both joy and melancholy.In 2004, Banksy released a limited edition print of Girl with Balloon featuring a unique twist: the addition of metallic gold spray paint. This gold variant adds a striking visual element to the artwork, transforming it into a shimmering and luxurious piece that commands attention. The use of gold also imbues the print with a sense of preciousness and value, elevating the image to an iconic status within Banksy's oeuvre.The Girl with Balloon Gold Print has since become highly sought-after by collectors and art enthusiasts alike, symbolizing Banksy's ability to merge street art with fine art and challenge conventional notions of value and authenticity. Despite its commercial success, the print retains its powerful message and emotional resonance, reminding viewers of the universal themes of love, loss, and the human experience.Over the years, Girl with Balloon has taken on various interpretations and meanings, becoming a symbol of hope, resilience, and the pursuit of dreams. Its enduring popularity and cultural significance speak to Banksy's ability to create art that resonates with people from all walks of life and continues to inspire conversations about art, society, and the human condition.Despite the elusive nature of Banksy's identity and the transient nature of street art, Girl with Balloon remains a timeless and iconic masterpiece that continues to captivate audiences around the world, leaving an indelible mark on the art world and popular culture.

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Auction History

Banksy - Girl with Balloon – Colour AP (Gold)

Girl with Balloon – Colour AP (Gold) · Banksy · Sotheby's · 2021-03 · $1,513,850

Banksy - Girl with Balloon - Colour AP (Gold)

Girl with Balloon - Colour AP (Gold) · Banksy · Christie's · 2019-09 · $493,340

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About Banksy

Banksy prints for sale at Guy Hepner include authenticated signed and unsigned editions: Girl with Balloon, Choose Your Weapon, Tesco Soup Cans, Fragile, Laugh Now, and Flower Thrower. Buy Banksy prints in New York through our gallery at 177 Tenth Avenue — all works sourced with full provenance and authentication documentation. We also buy Banksy art and offer free valuations for sellers.

Banksy is the world’s most celebrated anonymous street artist — a figure whose identity remains unknown but whose visual language is instantly recognisable across continents. Emerging from the Bristol graffiti scene in the early 1990s, Banksy developed a stencil-based technique that allowed rapid, precise execution on walls, bridges, and public surfaces from London and New York to Gaza and the West Bank. His work fuses dark humour, political provocation, and formal rigour in a way that has made him equally at home on the street and in the auction room. Today, Banksy art for sale represents one of the most dynamic and hotly contested segments of the contemporary secondary market.

Banksy Art For Sale

Banksy art for sale encompasses original spray-painted canvases, unique works on board, signed and unsigned print editions, and — on rare occasions — documented wall works sold with photographic authentication. The breadth of subjects he has addressed is remarkable: consumer capitalism (Tesco Soup Cans, Trolley Hunters), celebrity culture (Kate Moss, Andy Warhol), surveillance and control (Radar Rat, CCTV Watching), and hope and fragility (Girl with Balloon, Fragile).

The benchmark auction event in Banksy’s market history remains the October 2018 Sotheby’s London sale, when Girl with Balloon — having just sold for £1.04 million — was partially shredded by a device concealed in the frame, becoming Love is in the Bin. The reconstituted work subsequently sold in October 2021 for £18.5 million, underscoring the extraordinary commercial power of Banksy’s interventions and the appetite of the global collector base for his most iconic imagery.

Banksy Paintings For Sale

Banksy paintings for sale — unique spray-painted works on canvas or board — are the rarest and most valuable category of his output. These works, typically produced in small numbers for specific shows or commissions, carry full documentation from Pest Control and have appeared at auction with results ranging from six to eight figures. Choose Your Weapon, Monkey Parliament, and large-format stencil canvases from his early 2000s output represent the apex of private collector demand.

Provenance is paramount for Banksy paintings. Unbroken ownership history from first sale through to the present day, combined with a current Pest Control certificate, is the minimum standard for any serious acquisition. Works without this documentation carry substantial authentication risk regardless of visual appearance.

Banksy Prints: Signed vs Unsigned

Banksy print editions form the most accessible and widely traded category of his market. Published through his own distribution channels and in very limited numbers, these screenprints exist in signed and unsigned variants — a distinction that has a significant impact on value. Signed editions — with Banksy’s hand signature — command multiples of two to five times comparable unsigned editions in the same print run.

Key print series sought by collectors include: Girl with Balloon (multiple colourways), Choose Your Weapon, Kate Moss, Tesco Soup Cans, Fragile, Radar Rat, Flower Thrower, and Di-Faced Tenners. Edition sizes vary from as few as 150 to several hundred, and sell-through rates at auction confirm strong secondary demand across all major series.

Banksy Authentication: Pest Control

Pest Control is Banksy’s official authentication body and the only organisation authorised to certify works as genuine. When you buy Banksy prints or original art, a current Pest Control Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is the non-negotiable standard. The COA features a torn currency note — half retained by Pest Control, half with the work — as a security measure, and is registered against a specific edition and owner.

At Guy Hepner Gallery, every Banksy work offered for sale is accompanied by Pest Control documentation. We do not offer works without verified authentication, and our team is available to guide collectors through the acquisition process, including condition reporting, framing recommendations, and insurance valuation.

Ready to buy Banksy art? Contact Guy Hepner to explore our current inventory of authenticated Banksy prints and original works.

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