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Banksy Choose Your Weapon Lemon Yellow For Sale
Banksy
Choose Your Weapon Lemon Yellow, 2010
Screen print
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in 69.8 x 69.8 cm
Edition
Edition of 25
About this work
Banksy remains the most influential street artist of the contemporary era, commanding exceptional prices at auction while maintaining an anonymity that has become central to his cultural mythology. His works consistently achieve record-breaking results in the secondary market, reflecting sustained institutional and collector demand that shows no signs of diminishing. Choose Your Weapon Lemon Yellow presents one of Banksy's most recognizable compositions, depicting a hooded figure in an aggressive stance, gripping a leash attached to a Keith Haring-style barking dog. The work operates as both homage and commentary, appropriating Haring's distinctive radiant aesthetic while subverting its optimistic energy. The figure's threatening posture transforms what was once a symbol of vitality and movement into an instrument of potential violence. This tension between pop art celebration and social critique exemplifies Banksy's capacity to layer meaning within deceptively simple imagery. The lemon yellow colorway saturates the composition with an almost jarring brightness, amplifying the work's unsettling juxtaposition of playfulness and menace. Executed as a screen print in 2010, this work belongs to an exceptionally limited edition of just twenty-five impressions, making it among the scarcest variants in the Choose Your Weapon series. The restricted edition size has contributed to strong demand among collectors seeking significant Banksy works with documented provenance and verified authenticity. The composition's engagement with art historical reference, combined with its pointed social observation, positions this print as a substantive example of Banksy's conceptual sophistication during a pivotal period of his practice. Guy Hepner invites serious collectors to inquire about availability and acquisition of this important work.
Price on Application
Auction History
Choose Your Weapon - Lemon · Banksy · Phillips · 2020-12 · $243,746
Choose Your Weapon - Lemon · Banksy · Christie's · 2019-09 · $65,529
Choose Your Weapon (Lemon) · Banksy · Sotheby's · 2024-03 · $64,379
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About the Choose Your Weapon Series
Series Performance & Market Position
Banksy's Choose Your Weapon series ranks among the most commercially significant bodies of work in the contemporary street art market — and among the most actively collected at Guy Hepner. The image, depicting a figure walking a dog whose leash trails a Keith Haring-inspired barking dog silhouette, operates simultaneously as art-world commentary, pop culture reference, and formal homage. Its legibility across collector demographics has sustained demand at every price tier.
At Guy Hepner, Choose Your Weapon works have appeared across multiple transaction contexts, from entry-level editions to significant signed examples. Signed screenprints from the series regularly achieve £20,000–£50,000 at Pest Control-authenticated auction, with colour variants and rare formats pushing considerably higher. The Barely Legal and Choose Your Weapon editions from 2010 and subsequent years represent core Banksy holdings for serious collectors.
Technical & Historical Context
Choose Your Weapon exists in multiple formats across Banksy's output — as a street work, as a print edition, and as a canvas. The screenprint editions, authenticated by Pest Control, were produced in limited quantities with variations in colour palette and substrate that create meaningful collecting distinctions between versions.
The Keith Haring reference embedded in the image is deliberate and well-documented: Banksy's barking dog directly quotes Haring's iconic motif, placing the work within a lineage of street art that acknowledges its own history. This art-historical self-consciousness is characteristic of Banksy's mature practice and contributes to the work's resonance with both popular and institutional audiences.
Individual Works & Collector Preferences
Signed editions command substantial premiums over unsigned works — the Pest Control authentication process adds significant market credibility and resale liquidity. Colour variants have demonstrated the strongest appreciation, with the dark teal and orange versions historically outperforming neutral-ground editions at auction.
Canvas works in this image family are rarer and trade privately rather than at auction, reflecting both their scarcity and the discretion Banksy's collectors typically maintain. Print works in this series are among Banksy's most liquid assets on the secondary market.
Authentication & Condition Considerations
All Banksy works require Pest Control authentication — without it, market credibility and resale value are substantially compromised. Condition is paramount: Banksy's screenprints are vulnerable to surface abrasion and UV fading, particularly in the colour layers. Works stored flat and away from light retain full vibrancy and command the strongest auction results.
Provenance tracing to original Banksy releases or authenticated secondary sales strengthens acquisition confidence. Beware works offered without clear authentication history, particularly at below-market prices.
Guy Hepner maintains ongoing access to authenticated Banksy works including Choose Your Weapon editions. Contact our New York gallery at 177 10th Avenue to discuss current availability and acquisition guidance.
Cultural Context
Choose Your Weapon belongs to a body of Banksy work that explicitly engages with art history through quotation — in this case, a direct visual reference to Keith Haring's barking dog motif, itself one of the most recognisable images in twentieth-century street art. By having his hooded figure walk Haring's dog on a leash, Banksy positions himself within a lineage of artists who moved between illegal public interventions and gallery-sanctioned careers, drawing an explicit line between his own practice and Haring's earlier navigation of that same tension in 1980s New York.
The work has appeared across multiple contexts within Banksy's practice — as a wall stencil, as screenprint editions authenticated by Pest Control (Banksy's authentication body), and in canvas form — allowing the same image to circulate through the very different registers of street art, print market, and unique-object collecting that Banksy has moved between throughout his career.
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.