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Banksy Get Out While You Can (Pink) (Unsigned) For Sale
Banksy
Get Out While You Can (Pink) (Unsigned), 2004
Screen print
19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in 50 x 35 cm
Edition
Edition of 175
About this work
Get Out While You Can (Pink) is a 2004 screen print by Banksy that explores the themes of capitalism, protest and the working class. Released and published by Pictures on Walls the work is from a signed edition of 75 and an unsigned edition of 175. Banksy’s Get Out While You Can print is part of a series of three, commonly known as the Placard Rats, with each rat holding a protest placard with a phrase seemingly graffitied onto the card. Get Our While You can appear as a phrase on the placard held aloft by the rat. The phrase itself conveys meanings of danger and escapism. Escapism from what we ask? Banksy, known only to a select few, is challenging us to question our place in society and our own worth. Through protest, the attempt to both challenge and change the status quo, we have the chance to get out of the rat race, to leave behind the trappings, violence and destruction of capitalism and escape. The phrase itself is a reference to a book by George Marshall titled "Get Out While You Can" which discusses escaping wage slavery and consumerism. The rat can be seen to symbolize the working class, every day person on the street, and the masses, and how society deems them worthless and not good enough. Protest is the answer. Far from being downtrodden and ignored, rats themselves living as marginalised animals, eking out a living in shadows and on the peripheries of society, The work is a call to arms as Banksy invites the disenfranchised and working classes to embrace protest, to question their value and to rise up.
Price on Application
Auction History
Get Out While You Can · Banksy · Bonhams · 2021-02 · $132,991
GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN · Banksy · Sotheby's · 2020-09 · $114,290
Get Out While You Can · Banksy · Sotheby's · 2018-03 · $52,481
Get out while you can · Banksy · Christie's · 2023-03 · $30,728
GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN · Banksy · Sotheby's · 2019-09 · $20,267
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About the Get Out While You Can Series
Banksy Get Out While You Can Prints For Sale
Banksy's "Get Out While You Can" series from 2004 represents a pivotal moment in the artist's evolution from underground provocateur to internationally recognized contemporary master. Created during a transformative period when Banksy was establishing his signature visual language, this series features his iconic rat motif—a symbol of urban resilience and anti-establishment defiance. The stark imagery of a rat holding a marker pen, positioned beneath the commanding text "GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN," serves as both a self-reflexive commentary on the street art world and a broader warning about societal conformity. Available in both standard black and pink colorway variants, and produced in both signed and unsigned editions, this series offers collectors multiple entry points into owning a significant work from Banksy's formative years.
The technical execution demonstrates Banksy's masterful command of the screenprint medium, utilizing bold graphic contrasts and precise stencil-derived imagery that mirrors his legendary street interventions. The typography carries an urgent, almost militant quality, while the rat—drawn with characteristic economy of line—conveys remarkable personality despite its minimalist rendering. The pink edition introduces an unexpected chromatic dimension that subverts the aggressive messaging with an ironic playfulness, exemplifying Banksy's sophisticated use of visual contradiction. This juxtaposition between medium and message, street aesthetics and fine art production, positioned the series as a bridge between Banksy's guerrilla origins and his institutional acceptance.
From a market perspective, the "Get Out While You Can" series has demonstrated exceptional performance, with signed editions commanding premium valuations reflective of their documented provenance and rarity. The 2004 date places these works within Banksy's critically important early-to-mid career output, preceding his explosive mainstream recognition while maintaining the raw authenticity of his street art roots. Collectors view this series as both historically significant and aesthetically powerful, representing an accessible yet substantive acquisition for those building museum-quality contemporary collections. The availability of unsigned variants provides opportunities for emerging collectors, while signed examples remain highly sought-after blue-chip holdings.
For authentication, provenance documentation, and current availability of works from the "Get Out While You Can" series, contact Guy Hepner.
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.