{"id":2782,"date":"2025-06-05T13:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/banksy-artwork-pieces-up-for-auction\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T13:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:15:12","slug":"banksy-artwork-pieces-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/banksy-artwork-pieces-up-for-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksy artwork pieces up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-05 13:15:11<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Multiple Banksy artwork pieces may fetch over \u00a31 million in total at auction.<BR><br \/>\nJohn Brandler, who owns the Brandler Galleries in Brentwood, Essex, East of England, will be parting ways with three of the anonymous street artist&#8217;s designs when they go under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers, in Etwall, Derbyshire, East Midlands of England, on June 13.<BR><br \/>\nOne of Banksy&#8217;s earliest designs, DJ on a Cloud from 1999 &#8211; which was going to be scrapped after it had been thrown out of a shop in Bath, Somerset, South West England &#8211; is expected to go for between \u00a3350,000 and \u00a3450,000.<BR><br \/>\nThe second art piece up for grabs is 2003&#8217;s Family Target, which depicts a family of three walking hand-in-hand, with a red crosshair covering the child&#8217;s head.<BR><br \/>\nIt is thought this will be sold for between \u00a3350,000 and \u00a3450,000.<BR><br \/>\nThe final artwork on offer is 2003&#8217;s Two Rats with a Saw, which was saved from being destroyed after someone recovered and preserved it.<BR><br \/>\nThis piece is projected to fetch between \u00a3145,000 and \u00a3165,000.<BR><br \/>\nJohn, who has 13 Banksy art pieces in Brandler Galleries, is quoted by echo-news.co.uk as saying: &#8220;Banksy is the only artist I know of whose single painting inspired a stage production. <BR><br \/>\n\u201cIt shows the cultural weight his work carries &#8211; and these three pieces are no exception. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;They very nearly disappeared forever. Instead, they\u2019re now part of modern art history.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nCharles Hanson, the owner of Hansons Auctioneers, added: &#8220;These are more than artworks &#8211; they are survivors, cultural landmarks, and provocations all rolled into one. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We\u2019re proud to be offering them to a global audience. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Banksy\u2019s work continues to hold a mirror up to society in a way that\u2019s both playful and powerful &#8211; and collectors have responded to that message in extraordinary ways.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-05 13:15:11 Multiple Banksy artwork pieces may fetch over \u00a31 million in total at auction. John Brandler, who owns the Brandler Galleries in Brentwood, Essex, East of England, will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}