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Banksy Stop and Search (Signed) For Sale

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Banksy - Stop and Search (Signed), 2007, Screen print
Signed and numbered

Stop and Search (Signed), 2007

Screen print Signed and numbered

22 x 29 7/8 in 56 x 76 cm

Edition

Edition of 500

About this work

Stop and Search presents Banksy's subversive visual commentary through a striking screen print depicting Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz being frisked by a police officer while Toto observes. The composition juxtaposes the innocent, beloved character in her iconic gingham dress against the authoritative figure conducting an invasive search. Executed in Banksy's signature high-contrast style, the work demonstrates the artist's masterful command of screen printing techniques, with crisp lines and bold color blocking that create immediate visual impact. Created in 2007, this signed and numbered edition represents a pivotal moment in Banksy's exploration of surveillance culture and state authority. The work's clever appropriation of a cultural icon transforms childhood nostalgia into pointed social critique, a hallmark of the artist's practice that continues to resonate with collectors worldwide. As a signed piece from Banksy's coveted print portfolio, it offers both artistic merit and strong investment potential. Available for purchase — enquire for price and availability.

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Auction History

Banksy - Stop and Search

Stop and Search · Banksy · Christie's · 2021-03 · $154,708

Banksy - Stop and Search

Stop and Search · Banksy · Bonhams · 2021-02 · $141,834

Banksy - Stop and Search

Stop and Search · Banksy · Heritage Auctions · 2021-02 · $125,000

Banksy - Stop and Search

Stop and Search · Banksy · Christie's · 2021-09 · $119,897

Banksy - Stop and Search

Stop and Search · Banksy · Sotheby's · 2021-09 · $104,327

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About the Stop and Search Series

Banksy Stop and Search Prints For Sale

The Stop and Search series represents a pivotal moment in Banksy's artistic evolution, where the renowned British street artist translates his signature stencil technique onto gallery canvases. Created during a period of heightened social commentary, these works critique systemic inequality and police accountability through bold, provocative imagery characteristic of the artist's activist approach.

This series demonstrates Banksy's mastery of combining street art aesthetics with fine art presentation, employing mixed media and precise stencilling to deliver powerful socio-political messages. The signed editions, including the titular Stop and Search (Signed), carry significant collector appeal, representing some of the artist's most directly confrontational pieces addressing civil rights themes.

For collectors seeking authentic Banksy works with documented provenance and exhibition history, the Stop and Search series offers both artistic merit and investment potential. These pieces consistently appreciate in value, reflecting sustained market demand for the artist's politically engaged output.

Enquire for availability of works from this influential series.

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Stop and Search (Signed)

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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