Urban Art Auction
Published November 25th, 2007
The 100 paintings on sale at Bonhams in London in February will include works by the Americans Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, who pioneered the genre in the 1980s, and their British counterparts such as Antony Micallef and Banksy.
“What this sale does is show how urban art has emerged from an underground sub-culture to the mainstream,” said Gareth Williams, the urban art specialist at Bonhams. â”In Britain this has only really happened in the past four or five years.”
Banksy, whose work has been bought by Brad Pitt and his girlfriend Angelina Jolie, is the best-known British urban artist.
This year Bonhams sold two works by Banksy, a self portrait fetched £198,000 and a copy of a cover he painted for the Blur album Think Tank went for £228,000.
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