![, unique in this format,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:45,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:8,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:cbdrs,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:9pqtj,text:Exhibition History,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:18,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:18,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:9r6er,text:Santa's Ghetto, Dragon Bar, London, December 2002,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:49,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:14,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:81dvn,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:41sjk,text:Auction History,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:15,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:cala6,text:Auction House: Bonhams London,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:29,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:220dv,text:Date: 16 April 2008,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:19,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:6,style:BOLD},{offset:8,length:1,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:c09me,text:Price realized: GBP 84,000 / USD 110,632,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:40,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD},{offset:16,length:24,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}}],entityMap:{}}">, unique in this format,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:45,style:{\BG\:\#NaNNaNNaN\}},{offset:0,length:8,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:62sal,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:epd8n,text:Auction History,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:15,style:{\BG\:\#NaNNaNNaN\}},{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:eotgq,text:Auction House: Christie's London,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:32,style:{\BG\:\#NaNNaNNaN\}},{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:evqvb,text:Date: 25 June 2013,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:18,style:{\BG\:\#NaNNaNNaN\}},{offset:0,length:6,style:BOLD},{offset:8,length:1,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:8tlaf,text:Price realized: GBP 40,000,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:26,style:{\BG\:\#NaNNaNNaN\}},{offset:0,length:16,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:4ic9q,text:,type:header-two,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:87p8a,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:ff6p2,text:Bomb Hugger is one of Banksy’s most daring stencils, depicting a ponytailed young girl hugging a bomb as if it were a toy. 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, unique in this format,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:45,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:8,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:cbdrs,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:9pqtj,text:Exhibition History,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:18,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:18,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:9r6er,text:Santa's Ghetto, Dragon Bar, London, December 2002,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:49,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:14,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:81dvn,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:41sjk,text:Auction History,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:15,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:cala6,text:Auction House: Bonhams London,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:29,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:220dv,text:Date: 16 April 2008,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:19,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:6,style:BOLD},{offset:8,length:1,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:c09me,text:Price realized: GBP 84,000 / USD 110,632,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:40,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD},{offset:16,length:24,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}}],entityMap:{}}">
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Bomb Love, 2002
![, April 15, 2021, Lot 20","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":125,"style":"UNDERLINE"},{"offset":0,"length":125,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":125,"key":0}],"data":{}},{"key":"et6hc","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"f8erd","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"2j0n0","text":"Love is in the Air depicts a masked man, dressed as a militant, who is about to throw a bouquet of flowers with mercurial vigor. As he aims towards a direction unknown (located outside of the viewer’s field of vision) it becomes apparent that the man himself is the object of an imminent attack, the tip of his bouquet being prey to a large orange target. ","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":19,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":28,"length":1,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{"0":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.phillips.com/detail/banksy/UK010121/20","target":"_blank","rel":"noopener"}}}}">Family Target, 2003 Spray-paint on canvas , Love is in the Air shows the figure of a young man leaning back with an arm stretched outwards, as if winding up to throw something aggressively. Yet, instead of being seized in an act of violence that one would assume involves a bomb or a grenade, Banksy’s subject carries a symbol for peace and beauty — a bouquet of flowers. Extracted from a presumably chaotic and violent context and standing alone, poetically resilient in a sea of nothingness, the man is disconcertingly removed from the situation of unrest that his movements and attire suggest. With its riotous imagery, Love is in the Air is namely redolent of Andy Warhol’s Riots series, similarly focusing on the time-lapse of violence — the pause and silence that separates a violent act from its fatal consequence. Equally, the picture’s paradoxical sense of quietude evokes Cady Noland’s striking sculptural manifestations of punctured silhouettes, which, despite indicating inherent violence, exude the similar sentiment of a deadly occurrence’s eerie aftermath. Her human silhouettes, often hoisting to the viewer’s size, suggest both the life and death of their bodies, just as Love is in the Air’s character is at once alive and inevitably obsolete, powerless against the force of the central orange target.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[{"offset":59,"length":13,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":73,"length":19,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":322,"length":6,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":652,"length":19,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":693,"length":11,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":707,"length":6,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":911,"length":11,"style":"BOLD"},{"offset":1218,"length":18,"style":"BOLD"}],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{}}">75cm x 75cm](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/ws-artlogicwebsite1680/usr/exhibitions/images/feature_panels/1953/banksy-family-target.jpeg)
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Toxic Mary, Banksy’s reinterpretation of a Renaissance Madonna, is one of the artist’s most iconic motifs, first appearing in his clandestine exhibition Turf War, held in London’s Dalston neighborhood in 2003. In the present work, he has depicted the Virgin Mary cradling baby Jesus, here shown as a double image that has been mirrored across the canvas. Both Marys feed their babies from orange hazard bottles, and, in the sky above, a ring of stars hangs as airplanes roar below; set against a gleaming white, all connotations of virtue and purity traditionally associated with the color have been purged from the canvas. The work not only satirizes the seemingly unimpeachable relationship between mother and child, but also the role of religion more broadly, which, viewed through Banksy’s sardonic eye, is presented not as sheltering force, but as a social poison. 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Brilliantly provocative and boldly witty in its appropriation of probably the most iconic image of beauty, Banksy’s Venus transforms Velazquez’s The Rokeby Venus (1647-51) into a pithy commentary on the commercialization of looks and appearance in the modern age. ,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:5,style:{FG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:6,length:357,style:{FG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:364,length:28,style:{FG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:393,length:119,style:{FG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:5,style:BOLD},{offset:47,length:8,style:BOLD},{offset:116,length:14,style:BOLD},{offset:355,length:8,style:BOLD},{offset:364,length:5,style:BOLD},{offset:381,length:11,style:BOLD},{offset:393,length:17,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{textAlignment:left}}],entityMap:{}}">, signed and dated 21 July 2006 on the reverse,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:54,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:8vvn2,text:,type:header-two,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:br2vp,text:Exhibition History,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:18,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:18,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:f8blh,text:Barely Legal, Los Angeles, 2006,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:31,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:12,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:31lh8,text:,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:9ouea,text:Auction History,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:15,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:clsrk,text:Auction House: Bonhams London,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:29,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:14,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:7d4e8,text:Date: 22 October 2020,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:21,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:5,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:bjvle,text:Price realized: GBP 855,062 / USD 1,122,369,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:43,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:43,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:6g17h,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:52v9t,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:6hqfk,text:One of the definitive artists of the new millennium, Banksy has left an indelible mark on the walls of art history as a true maverick of the genre. From his emergence as a figurehead of street art, Banksy has risen to the heights of global superstardom through a course of breakthrough exhibitions, political activism, and artistic showmanship. Oh My God was first displayed at Banksy's most significant exhibition, Barely Legal, his debut show in the United States in Los Angeles in 2006. Irreverent, playful, and littered with art historical and cultural allusions, Oh My God is a work in Banksy's quintessential stenciling style on a rare metal support, demonstrating all the panache and appeal that places this amongst his most collectible works.,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:415,style:{FG:#3d3d3b}},{offset:428,length:322,style:{FG:#3d3d3b}},{offset:53,length:6,style:BOLD},{offset:185,length:11,style:BOLD},{offset:198,length:6,style:BOLD},{offset:345,length:10,style:BOLD},{offset:378,length:8,style:BOLD},{offset:415,length:13,style:BOLD},{offset:567,length:11,style:BOLD},{offset:591,length:8,style:BOLD},{offset:415,length:13,style:{FG:#00NaNNaN}}],entityRanges:[],data:{}}],entityMap:{}}">, 100 Westbourne Grove, London, 2005,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:46,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:10,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:7roeg,text:,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:asecs,text:,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:2fhqr,text:Countryside CCTV shows a post of CCTV surveillance cameras within a bucolic landscape copied from historic oil painting. The contrast between the element of modern technology and the classical aura of the background creates an exciting tension that is at the heart of Banksy’s tongue-in-cheek style. The work belongs to Banksy’s widely celebrated series, the “Crude Oils”. In these hijacked traditional oil paintings, the artist inserts his iconic stencil figures into Old Masters paintings. In doing so, he tackles relevant issues and formulates sharp social commentary through subversive humor. ,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:597,style:{FG:#212529}},{offset:0,length:17,style:BOLD},{offset:268,length:8,style:BOLD},{offset:320,length:8,style:BOLD},{offset:359,length:14,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{textAlignment:justify}},{key:e6kj8,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{textAlignment:justify}},{key:dg2aq,text:They’re both a reference to ideas of the “readymade” and artists like Marcel Duchamp, as well as to ideas of Pop Art around mass production and appropriation. He has successfully placed these artworks into exhibitions of respected museums and art galleries around the world, including The Louvre, The Tate, The British Museum and New York's Museum of Modern Art.,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:362,style:{FG:#212529}},{offset:70,length:14,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{textAlignment:justify}}],entityMap:{}}">, Acrylic, glass,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:29,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:7,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:dbocc,text:Dimensions: 121.9x182.9x152.4 cm (47 7/8 x 72 x 60 inches),type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:58,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:11,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:9d4vb,text:Edition: Unique,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:15,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:8,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:fg1r7,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:7gt12,text:Exhibition History,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:18,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:18,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:fv2v6,text:Barely Legal, Los Angeles, 2006,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:31,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:12,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:d5gi0,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:bq10u,text:Auction History,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:15,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:11qim,text:Auction House: Phillips London,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:30,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:14,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:46tfd,text:Date: 15 October 2014,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:21,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:6,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:60l0s,text:Price realized: GBP 722,500 / USD 1,152,864,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:43,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:43,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:3rvoi,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:6pdsu,text:,type:header-two,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{textAlignment:center}},{key:attb3,text:Submerged Phone Booth, carried out in 2006, features a replica of the classically British Telecommunications phone booth. The booth in question is depicted as emerging from a cement pavement, fragmenting and splitting the surface in its endeavor. As integral to his oeuvre, in this piece Banksy questions contemporary society and events that otherwise remain overlooked or tactfully ignored.,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:391,style:{FG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:21,style:BOLD},{offset:288,length:6,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{textAlignment:left}},{key:ah7hl,text:Made available in the early 1900s, shortly after the success of the recently invented telephone, the telephone booth first appeared in London near railway stations. The boxes provided instant communication for travelers and city-dwellers, serving the needs of the masses. Phone booths once graced virtually every street corner, public office building and hotel, and became a part of the fabric of the culture. Phone booths are now seen as a symbol of London and British culture and serve more as a tourist-attraction for travelers than for any practical value. Yet the iconic constructions are beginning to disappear, falling subject to virtual and technological progression.,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:675,style:{FG:#NaNNaNNaN}}],entityRanges:[],data:{textAlignment:left}}],entityMap:{}}">, 100 Westbourne Grove, London, 2005,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:46,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:11,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:2c4un,text:Barely Legal, Los Angeles, 2006,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:31,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:12,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:16h52,text:Banksy: The unauthorized retrospective, S/2 London, curated by Steve Lazarides, 2014,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:84,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:38,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:79nke,text:,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:eljjn,text:,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:3ilir,text:Guantanamo Bay depicts a kneeling man in an orange prison uniform in handcuffs with a black bag over his head on the shore of an idyllic oil painting of a seashore. This work belongs to the celebrated Crude Oils series in which, Banksy reproduces and hijacks traditional oil paintings by Old Masters, and even succeeded at smuggling them into exhibitions at major international museums such as The Louvre and the British Museum. Banksy juxtaposes the kitschy, classic style of landscape oil painting to the eerie, photorealistic figure. The title of the painting suggests the connection of the notorious American prison facility, Guantanamo Bay to the seascape portrayed in the piece. ,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:685,style:{FG:#212529}},{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD},{offset:201,length:17,style:BOLD},{offset:229,length:6,style:BOLD},{offset:429,length:6,style:BOLD},{offset:630,length:15,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{textAlignment:justify}}],entityMap:{}}">, Los Angeles, 2006,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:12,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:cn14l,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:5tsdt,text:Auction History,type:header-three,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:1onih,text:Auction House: Sotheby's London,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:76foi,text:Date: 25 March 2021,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:5,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}},{key:f8eqd,text:Price Realized: GBP 2,677,000 / USD 3,670,000,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:15,style:BOLD},{offset:16,length:29,style:BOLD},{offset:16,length:29,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}}],entityRanges:[],data:{textAlignment:left}}],entityMap:{}}">, in 1985, an injunction to forbid a Festival led to an open-air battle between Police and New Age Travelers. In his usual humorous take, Banksy depicts several police officers in riot gears, running and playing in this very field as if they actually were the festival goers, the facts are less bucolic...,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:422,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}}],entityRanges:[],data:{dynamicStyles:{line-height:1.5,padding-top:0px,padding-bottom:0px}}},{key:buj8t,text:,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[],entityRanges:[],data:{dynamicStyles:{line-height:1.5,padding-top:0px,padding-bottom:0px}}},{key:aot2h,text:Britain was a divided country in 1985. Unemployment figures had risen to more than three million, there were riots in Birmingham and Brixton, inflation was high and the pay gap grew wider. The miners’ strike had ended in March, after a rancorous year-long dispute that signaled the end for the national coal industry. In that context, on June 1, a clash between Wiltshire Police and New Age Travelers became known as The Battle Of The Beanfield, scene of one of the biggest mass arrests in English history.,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:8,style:BOLD},{offset:118,length:11,style:BOLD},{offset:133,length:7,style:BOLD},{offset:362,length:16,style:BOLD},{offset:384,length:18,style:BOLD},{offset:419,length:27,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{dynamicStyles:{line-height:1.5,padding-top:0px,padding-bottom:0px}}}],entityMap:{}}">Gas Mask Boy, 2009 , Devolved Parliament presents the stark realization of this premonition. As Banksy wryly declared on his Instagram account upon the recent exhibition of Devolved Parliament ten years on from its execution: “Laugh now, but one day no-one will be in charge”. One can but hope the artist’s seemingly astute clairvoyance does not take us so far. Certainly, rendered on a grand scale which rivals the great History Paintings of the Neoclassical age, the present work points to the animalistic pandemonium of global politics in recent years. ,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:32,style:{FG:#353530}},{offset:52,length:132,style:{FG:#353530}},{offset:204,length:363,style:{FG:#353530}},{offset:32,length:19,style:BOLD},{offset:107,length:7,style:BOLD},{offset:184,length:20,style:BOLD},{offset:237,length:49,style:BOLD},{offset:51,length:1,style:ITALIC}],entityRanges:[],data:{}}],entityMap:{}}">, Bristol Museum, Bristol, 2009,type:unstyled,depth:0,inlineStyleRanges:[{offset:0,length:56,style:{BG:#NaNNaNNaN}},{offset:0,length:25,style:BOLD}],entityRanges:[],data:{}}],entityMap:{}}">Spray-paint and oil on wood 92.5cm x 72cm](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/ws-artlogicwebsite1680/usr/exhibitions/images/feature_panels/1960/banksy-gas-mask-boy.jpeg?focal=51,25)
