MORONS (LA EDITION SEPIA)

2007

Edition: 150 signed, 500 unsigned

Medium: Screenprint

Size: 56 x 76 cm

Year: 2007

Availability: Sold

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About This Work

Banksy’s *MORONS (LA EDITION SEPIA)* distils the artist’s incisive critique of the art market into a sharply composed screenprint, staged as a crowded auction room fixated on a canvas reading “I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU MORONS ACTUALLY BUY THIS SHIT.” Rendered in a warm sepia palette, the edition evokes archival reportage and Old Master tonality, heightening the work’s satire by lending historical gravitas to contemporary spectacle. Banksy’s economy of line, graphic silhouettes and deadpan text combine street-art immediacy with Pop conceptual clarity, exposing the circularity of hype, value and authorship. A key work within Banksy’s print practice, it remains culturally resonant amid today’s celebrity-driven art economy.

About the Artist

Perhaps the most famous figure in street art working today, Banksy is known for urban interventions that demonstrate irreverent wit and a biting political edge. Enhancing his mystique by maintaining an anonymous identity, the artist has modified street signs, illegally printed his own currency, and ...

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