Banksy Traffic Light Street Work, Early 2000s, Weston-super-Mare Inscription To Reverse, Custom Wooden Case
Banksy Traffic Light Street Work, Early 2000s, Weston-super-Mare Inscription To Reverse, Custom Wooden Case
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A guide for this piece: about $28,271, based on the 10% US charge on the declared value of goods made in Japan.
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- Resplendent 8.5 of 10 ·
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For the collector who wants an object that still lights up the room it stands in.
Best for: Street art collections with room for a large object
Condition notes
Kept as it left the street: weather, scratches, old fixings and paint loss are part of its history. No restoration is recorded.
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A working three lamp traffic signal whose red, amber and green lenses each carry a stencilled figure, given as an early 2000s work with Weston-super-Mare written on the back.
The Piece
The signal is a full size British road unit with its black housing and visors. Each lens has been painted so that the light shines through a small stencilled figure, red above, amber in the middle and green below, and the lamps are shown lit in the photographs. The stencilled name appears on the top of the housing. It stands in a tall, purpose built wooden case with a glazed front.
The history given dates the piece to the first years of the 2000s. The reverse carries an inscription naming Weston-super-Mare, the Somerset resort where Dismaland would later open. A maker label and the case fittings are shown in the photographs.
The Image and Its Street Life
Road signs were among the first surfaces the artist used. An altered sign works twice: once as an order from the state, and once as the joke that undoes it. Signs made for English councils carry the label of their maker on the back, and that label is part of how these pieces are read.
Details
- Work: Traffic Light
- Support: Road traffic signal, three lamps
- Medium: Spray paint and stencil on the lenses
- History: England, early 2000s
- Marks: Weston-super-Mare inscription to the reverse
- Presentation: Custom wooden case, glazed
Sizes are measured by hand; please allow a small margin.
Condition
- Kept as it left the street: weather, scratches, old fixings and paint loss are part of its history.
- No restoration is noted.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade B (good) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
This piece is offered as a street work by the artist on the strength of its recorded history, the marks it carries and the papers shown in the photographs. Pest Control, the office that speaks for the artist, does not certify works taken from the street, and no certificate from that office accompanies it. Collectors who wish to examine the history in full, or to arrange an independent opinion, are invited to write to the Desk before buying. Examined and photographed in Japan before dispatch.
Delivery from Japan
Packed by hand in Japan in a rigid case and sent insured by express freight; because of its size the delivery charge is quoted and agreed with you before purchase. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
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