{"product_id":"banksy-paparazzi-rat-give-way-road-sign-late-1990s-weston-super-mare-maker-label-custom-framed-5964","title":"Banksy Paparazzi Rat Give Way Road Sign, Late 1990s, Weston-super-Mare Maker Label, Custom Framed","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"jp-product\" data-world=\"Japan Luxury Archive\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jp-lede\"\u003eA rectangular Give Way 50 yds plate with a rat and its camera stencilled in the lower corner, dating to the end of the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plate is white with black lettering and a black border, the kind fixed beneath a warning triangle. At the lower left a rat crouches with a camera raised, sprayed in black. The back is grey metal with two fixing rails. It is shown both loose and in a black frame with a brass plate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Ringway Signs label on the reverse gives an address in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset. The piece came from a private collector in England, and its details are said to match the versions of this rat recorded on walls at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Image and Its Street Life\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rat is the animal that made the artist famous. Hated, hunted and impossible to remove, it became the emblem of the small citizen who answers power back, and from the late nineties it appeared on kerbs, doors and street furniture across Bristol and London, usually at ankle height and usually up to no good. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDetails\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"jp-details\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paparazzi Rat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSupport:\u003c\/strong\u003e Aluminium road sign plate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Spray paint and stencil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHistory:\u003c\/strong\u003e England, late 1990s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarks:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ringway Signs label, Weston-super-Mare\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePresentation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Black frame\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSizes are measured by hand; please allow a small margin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCondition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKept as it left the street: weather, scratches, old fixings and paint loss are part of its history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo restoration is noted.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvery photograph is part of the description.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition grade \u003cstrong\u003eB (good)\u003c\/strong\u003e on the Japanese scale; see \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/japanese-condition-ranks-explained\"\u003eJapanese condition ranks, explained\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAuthenticity \u0026amp; Care\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDelivery from Japan\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePacked 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 \u003ca href=\"\/policies\/refund-policy\"\u003epublished policy\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"jp-closing\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidered offers are welcome through Send an Offer, and each one is reviewed personally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"jp-cta\" data-world=\"Japan Luxury Archive\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jp-cta-eyebrow\"\u003eConcierge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLooking for a particular artist, image or edition? 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