Banksy Barcode 2003 Screenprint On Paper, Signed Edition Of 150, Authenticity Certificate Included
Banksy Barcode 2003 Screenprint On Paper, Signed Edition Of 150, Authenticity Certificate Included
- Dispatch
- Prepared and sent from Tokyo within 7–14 days, often sooner, or as arranged
- Arrival
- United States · usually 4–7 days after dispatch, insured and tracked Check the Shipping Flowchart here
- Import
Duties and customs · View the estimate
A guide for this piece: about $139,921, based on the 10% US charge on the declared value of goods made in Japan.
The final figure is set by US Customs and depends on where the piece was made and the kind of object it is. Many antiques over a century old carry no ordinary duty; most jewellery and leather goods add a single-digit rate.
With EMS, any charge is collected by your postal service on delivery. For pieces of significant value we can often arrange duties prepaid before dispatch.
How the estimate is reached · Ask for a figure on this piece
- Character
- Ornate 6.5 of 10 ·
- Replies
- Within one Tokyo business day · Ask the curator team
- Guarantee
- Authenticity guaranteed · How we grade
Every piece is measured by hand, in centimetres as Japan measures. Please allow 1–2 cm (about ½ inch) for the give of the material and the hand that held the tape.
Where each figure is taken · View the plate
Print, painting and frame
Condition report
Excellent
- Giftable
- Mint
- Excellent
- Very Good
- Good
- Honest Wear
- As Found
Out of the cage
For the collector building a group of the first editions.
Best for: Collections of the early prints
Condition notes
No conspicuous marks or stains are recorded. Unframed sheet.
Grades, ratings and commentary are given to the best of our ability, knowledge and experience, and condition remains partly a matter of personal perception. What we stand behind without qualification is authenticity, truthful description and provenance, to the best of our knowledge. How we grade
Freight piece: please confirm delivery before purchase
This piece travels in a crate or by freight rather than standard mail, and may need careful dismantling before it can be packed. The shipping shown at checkout is an estimate. Japonista reserves the right to determine the final handling, crating and freight cost when your order is received, according to the piece, the destination and carrier conditions at that time.
We advise requesting a delivery quote before checkout. If the final cost is higher than the amount paid, we send the difference for your approval before dispatch. Your piece is held for you until it is settled.
Questions about delivery? Write to the curator deskAcquired by private invoice
Pieces of this calibre are reserved personally rather than through online checkout. Request the piece and the curator desk confirms availability, delivery and your invoice, payable by bank transfer or Wise. The piece is held for you while your transfer arrives.
Reserve this pieceAll sales are final. Please read our refund policy before purchase.
Examined in Tokyo, one price, insured to your door. How buying from Japonista works · Join the Circle, free
Barcode, the screenprint of 2003 in which a leopard walks free of a cage made from the bars of a product code, offered signed from the edition of 150 with its certificate.
The Piece
The image is printed in black on a white sheet of 50 by 70 cm. A leopard pads away to the right, and behind it stands a barcode on wheels whose bars have been bent apart to let the animal out. The wide margins are left empty, as the artist intended. The stencilled name and a signature appear in the lower margin, shown closely in the photographs.
The certificate of authenticity is shown with personal details masked. The present keeper describes the piece as of museum quality and has set a provisional figure for it.
The Leopard and the Price Tag
Barcode began as a wall in Bristol around the turn of the century and was issued as a print by Pictures on Walls in 2003, in a signed edition of 150 and a larger unsigned one. Its meaning needs no gloss: the wild thing has escaped the system that prices everything. It is one of the earliest of the editions and among the most sought after, since so few of the signed sheets come to market.
Details
- Title: Barcode
- Year: 2003
- Medium: Screenprint on paper
- Sheet: 50 x 70 cm (19.7 x 27.6 in)
- Edition: 150
- Signature: Signed
- Papers: Certificate of authenticity
Sizes are measured by hand; please allow a small margin.
Condition
- No conspicuous marks or stains are recorded.
- Unframed sheet.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade A (excellent) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
The work is accompanied by the certificate of authenticity shown in the photographs, where personal details have been masked. The Desk will gladly arrange for the certificate to be confirmed with the issuing office before a purchase is completed. 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.
Considered offers are welcome through Send an Offer, and each one is reviewed personally.
Concierge
Looking for a particular artist, image or edition? Our Hunting Salon™ locates it across Japan's private collector circles, then inspects, documents and delivers it to you. Begin a Hunting Salon™ request.
Chosen for you