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Banksy Choose Your Weapon Red For Sale
Banksy
Choose Your Weapon Red, 2010
Screen print
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in 70 x 70 cm
Edition
Edition of 25
About this work
Choose Your Weapon Red is a screen print created by Banksy in 2010, produced in a limited edition of 25. The red colorway — the most viscerally charged of the four variants in the Choose Your Weapon series — introduces associations of blood, danger, revolution, and emergency that intensify the already loaded implications of the work's title. In this register, the print's engagement with questions of threat and violence moves from irony toward something more urgent and confrontational, the color itself becoming an active part of the argument. The Choose Your Weapon series, with its four variants released in editions of 25 each, demonstrates Banksy's sophisticated understanding of the mechanics of limited edition printmaking — how the structure of editions creates rarity, how colorways generate distinct collecting categories within a single composition, and how the interaction of image and color produces different meanings within the same formal framework. The screen print process suits Banksy's graphic sensibility perfectly, producing works of flat, declarative visual clarity that communicate with the directness of political posters or public signage. Choose Your Weapon Red is the most politically charged variant in the series, its color carrying forward the activist and confrontational dimensions of Banksy's practice. Banksy is the pseudonymous British street artist and activist whose practice has redefined the relationship between street art, political commentary, and the international art market. His limited edition screen prints, produced in tight editions, combine the accessibility of multiples with the rarity of high demand and limited supply. Choose Your Weapon Red, as one of 25 prints in this colorway from a significant 2010 series, represents a major collecting opportunity and an important work from one of the most culturally significant artists of the contemporary period.
Price on Application
Auction History
Choose your Weapon (VIP Gold) · Banksy · Christie's · 2022-03 · $313,046
Choose Your Weapon - Bright Pink · Banksy · Phillips · 2021-06 · $260,005
Choose Your Weapon - Lemon · Banksy · Phillips · 2020-12 · $243,746
Choose Your Weapon - Bright Pink · Banksy · Sotheby's · 2021-09 · $243,430
Choose Your Weapon (Bright Purple) · Banksy · Bonhams · 2021-06 · $242,399
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Choose Your Weapon Silver
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Choose Your Weapon Sky Blue
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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.
Investment Analysis & 2026 Acquisition Strategy
Choose Your Weapon occupies a dual position in the Banksy market: accessible enough for new collectors, yet sufficiently documented and authenticated to hold value through market cycles. The Haring connection adds cross-market appeal, attracting collectors invested in both street art and American Pop.
For 2026, signed editions with full Pest Control documentation represent the most defensible acquisition. Rare colour variants or early impressions provide the strongest upside potential for collectors with longer holding horizons.
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.
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.