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Banksy - Bird With Grenade, 2005, Spray paint and acrylic on canvas

Bird With Grenade, 2005

Spray paint and acrylic on canvas

11 7/8 x 12 in 30.3 x 30.4 cm

About this work

Banksy's Bird with Grenade is a captivating artwork that encapsulates the artist's characteristic blend of whimsy and provocation. Created in Banksy's distinctive stencil style, this piece depicts a bird - seemingly innocent and peaceful at first glance - holding a hand grenade in its beak instead of the customary twig or worm.The juxtaposition of the delicate, natural image of a bird with the destructive force of a grenade is both striking and thought-provoking. It serves as a powerful commentary on the inherent duality of nature and the human condition. The bird, typically symbolizing freedom and tranquility, becomes a harbinger of chaos and destruction through its association with the grenade.Moreover, Bird with Grenade can be interpreted as a critique of the way in which innocence and violence often intersect in contemporary society. The image challenges viewers to confront the contradictions and complexities of the world around them, where beauty and brutality coexist in uneasy harmony.As with much of Banksy's work, Bird with Grenade also carries a deeper political message. The grenade can be seen as a symbol of conflict and warfare, drawing attention to issues of violence, militarization, and the consequences of armed conflict. By placing the grenade in the beak of a bird, Banksy highlights the destructive impact of human actions on the natural world and the need for greater awareness and accountability.Furthermore, the choice of a bird as the central motif is significant. Birds are often associated with freedom and flight, but they are also vulnerable to the destructive forces of humanity, such as pollution, habitat destruction, and war. Through Bird with Grenade, Banksy invites us to reflect on our relationship with the natural world and the responsibility we bear for its protection and preservation.Overall, Bird with Grenade is a powerful and thought-provoking artwork that invites viewers to contemplate themes of innocence and violence, freedom and captivity, and the fragile balance between humanity and nature. It is a testament to Banksy's ability to use art as a medium for social commentary and critique, challenging us to confront uncomfortable truths about the world we inhabit.

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Edition & Provenance

Year
2005
Medium
Spray paint and acrylic on canvas
Edition
Unique in the format
Bird With Grenade

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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