26th Nov, 2020 11:00

Post-War & Contemporary Art

 
Lot 22
 

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BANKSY (British, b.1974)

‘Bird Grenade’ (2002) Spray paint on plaster board, created in 2002 Size: 610 mm x 640 mm (total Size:90 x 90 cm. Mounted in wooden and glazed box PROVENANCE -Sprayed by Banksy on a plaster column at the Libros Revolucion Los Angeles in 2002 - Letter of Provenance form Richard Duardo of Modern Multiples, Nov. 26, 2007 - Acquired from the above by Jamie Wood in 2007 EXHIBITIONS - Show at the Institution Vanina Holasek Gallery, New York City, NY, United States in 2007 LITERATURE BANKSY, ‘N.Y.C. show, 2007’. Catalogue, ed 1000, offset, show by Vanina Holasek Gallery NOTE This object comes with a handwritten letter from Michael Slate, host of The Michael Slate Show, a weekly public affairs show on KPFK FM, the Pacifica Network station in Los Angeles, in which he declare that he was present while Banksy created the Bird Grenade on a column at the Libros Revolucion in Los Angeles in the autumn of 2002. Also a handwritten letter from Man Matsuer of the organisation ‘The Artist Network of Refuse’ at Los Angeles, who writes. The Letter of Provenance form Richard Duardo of Modern Multiples Four videos while removing Banksy’s Bird Grenade from the Colom at the Libros Revolucion in Los Angeles.

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Sold for €212,500


 

‘Bird Grenade’ (2002) Spray paint on plaster board, created in 2002 Size: 610 mm x 640 mm (total Size:90 x 90 cm. Mounted in wooden and glazed box PROVENANCE -Sprayed by Banksy on a plaster column at the Libros Revolucion Los Angeles in 2002 - Letter of Provenance form Richard Duardo of Modern Multiples, Nov. 26, 2007 - Acquired from the above by Jamie Wood in 2007 EXHIBITIONS - Show at the Institution Vanina Holasek Gallery, New York City, NY, United States in 2007 LITERATURE BANKSY, ‘N.Y.C. show, 2007’. Catalogue, ed 1000, offset, show by Vanina Holasek Gallery NOTE This object comes with a handwritten letter from Michael Slate, host of The Michael Slate Show, a weekly public affairs show on KPFK FM, the Pacifica Network station in Los Angeles, in which he declare that he was present while Banksy created the Bird Grenade on a column at the Libros Revolucion in Los Angeles in the autumn of 2002. Also a handwritten letter from Man Matsuer of the organisation ‘The Artist Network of Refuse’ at Los Angeles, who writes. The Letter of Provenance form Richard Duardo of Modern Multiples Four videos while removing Banksy’s Bird Grenade from the Colom at the Libros Revolucion in Los Angeles.

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Auction: Post-War & Contemporary Art, 26th Nov, 2020

Hessink’s is delighted to present a fine collection of 20th-century Contemporary Art, and the second part of the JAMIE WOOD Collection, son of the famous Rolling Stones Guitarist RONNY WOOD. One of the highlights in this sale will be a work by the world famous artist Banksy, titled: Bird with Grenade.

 

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20 to 25 November 2020, from 11am-5pm.

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