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Banksy Rat Clock (Signed) For Sale
Banksy
Rat Clock (Signed), 2019
Screenprint on wall clock
18 x 18in | 45 x 45cm
About this work
Banksy remains the most culturally pervasive street artist of his generation, commanding both critical attention and extraordinary auction results while maintaining the anonymity that has become central to his mythology. His work occupies a rare position at the intersection of populist appeal and institutional validation, with pieces regularly achieving seven-figure sums at major auction houses worldwide. Rat Clock (Signed) exemplifies Banksy's long-standing engagement with the rat as a personal emblem and subversive symbol. The rat has appeared throughout his career as an avatar for society's overlooked and underestimated—creatures that exist in the margins yet possess an undeniable resilience. By transposing this figure onto a functional wall clock, Banksy collapses the boundary between art object and domestic item, a gesture that recalls his persistent interrogation of value, commerce, and the spaces art is permitted to inhabit. Released in 2019 through Gross Domestic Product, the artist's satirical homewares venture, this edition of 150 emerged from Banksy's response to a greeting card company's attempt to trademark his imagery. The project transformed legal necessity into pointed commentary, offering authenticated works through a shop front in Croydon while critiquing the mechanisms of intellectual property and consumer culture. Each signed piece from this limited release carries both the artist's hand and the conceptual weight of its origins. The work measures 18 by 18 inches and represents an increasingly scarce opportunity to acquire a signed Banksy multiple from a historically significant project. For acquisition inquiries, please contact Guy Hepner.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2019
- Medium
- Screenprint on wall clock
- Edition
- Edition of 150
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About the Gross Domestic Product Series
Banksy Gross Domestic Product Prints For Sale
Gross Domestic Product represents one of Banksy's most commercially subversive ventures, launched in 2019 as both a functional homeware collection and a pointed critique of consumerism itself. The series emerged from a legal dispute over the artist's trademark rights, prompting Banksy to create an actual retail operation selling "impractical and offensive" products that simultaneously mocked commercial art markets while participating in them. Works like "Axe" (a collaboration with Spanish street artist Escif), "Welcome Mat," "GDP Banksy Clock," and "Duck and Cover" exemplify this paradoxical approach, transforming everyday household objects into collectible art pieces that question the very notion of commodity and value.
The technical execution of the GDP series demonstrates Banksy's evolution beyond street-based stencil work into mixed-media production and manufactured multiples. Each piece maintains the artist's signature visual language—provocative imagery, dark humor, and anti-establishment messaging—while existing as functional objects. The screen-printed designs on commercial products create an intentional tension between art and utility, challenging collectors to consider whether these works should be displayed or used. This deliberate ambiguity has only enhanced their desirability among serious collectors, who recognize the series as a conceptual extension of Banksy's broader practice rather than mere merchandise.
From a market perspective, the Gross Domestic Product series occupies a unique position within Banksy's oeuvre. These works offer entry points for emerging collectors while maintaining significant appeal for established holdings due to their conceptual rigor and limited availability. The series' authentication through Pest Control and its direct connection to a documented legal strategy provide exceptional provenance, while the inherent irony of collectible "anti-commercial" products has proven particularly resonant with contemporary collectors. As institutional recognition of Banksy's work continues to expand, GDP pieces represent both accessible acquisition opportunities and sophisticated additions to serious contemporary collections.
Guy Hepner maintains a curated selection of authenticated works from Banksy's Gross Domestic Product series, providing collectors with verified access to this significant chapter in the artist's ongoing commentary on art, commerce, and cultural value.
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.