Banksy I Fought the Law Ap signed

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Year: 2004
Size: 70 x 100 cm
Signature: Hand Signed
Frame: Framed with PlexiGlass
Edition: 71
Medium: Screen Print

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I Fought the Law is an early Banksy screen print that was released in 2004 by Pictures on Walls of London as an edition of just 150 I Fought The Law signed prints and 500 unsigned prints. Banksy also created 32 artist’s proofs, eight each of the four colours: orange, pink, yellow and red.

I Fought the Law is based on actual video footage of John Hinckley’s 1981 failed assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan and is a three-colour screen print depicting five black and white stencilled figures.

In a violent struggle, one man is being pinned down by three other men, whilst a fourth onlooker watches the scene from the right. The man on the ground has dropped a paintbrush, with which he has just scrawled the words ‘I Fought The Law And I Won’ in bright orange paint on the wall behind.

The four characters on the left depict the members of President Reagan’s private security team tackling John Hinckley, a delusional schizophrenic who fired five bullets at President Reagan on 30 March 1981. But with true Banksy irony, the criminal in I Fought the Law is a graffiti artist, instead of a killer.

The text references the title of the song I Fought The Law (and The Law Won) by The Clash from 1979. A second instance of the British rock band’s influence on Banksy’s work can also be seen in his graffiti tag portraying a punk smashing an office chair, appropriating the cover artwork from their 1979 album, London Calling. Screenprint available with COA.

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The Edition of the Banksy I FOUGHT THE LAW AP

Title: Banksy Medium: Screen printDate: 2003/2004Edition: 150 signed (500 unsigned) total 650, 49AP in few diferent colours, 8 on silver colours

Dimensions: 70 x 70 cm Signaturer: Signed Unsigned and numbered bottom right some with pen some with pencil,Published by: with POW stamp but some have BANKSY red tag with number and signature

 I Fought the Law is an early Banksy screen print that was released in 2004 by Pictures on Walls of London as an edition of just 150 I Fought The Law signed prints and 500 unsigned prints. Banksy also created 32 artist’s proofs, eight each of the four colours: orange, pink, yellow and red.I Fought the Law is based on actual video footage of John Hinckley’s 1981 failed assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan and is a three-colour screen print depicting five black and white stencilled figures.In a violent struggle, one man is being pinned down by three other men, whilst a fourth onlooker watches the scene from the right. The man on the ground has dropped a paintbrush, with which he has just scrawled the words ‘I Fought The Law And I Won’ in bright orange paint on the wall behind.The four characters on the left depict the members of President Reagan’s private security team tackling John Hinckley, a delusional schizophrenic who fired five bullets at President Reagan on 30 March 1981. But with true Banksy irony, the criminal in I Fought the Law is a graffiti artist, instead of a killer.The text references the title of the song I Fought The Law (and The Law Won) by The Clash from 1979. A second instance of the British rock band’s influence on Banksy’s work can also be seen in his graffiti tag portraying a punk smashing an office chair, appropriating the cover artwork from their 1979 album, London Calling. Screenprint available with COA.

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Banksy I Fought the Law AP ed 47

total of 8 prints in diferent colours, red, yellow, orange etc

Screen-print in colors, 2005

numbered  and sigened from the edition of  47 AP

on wove paper and uncut 100 x 69,5 cm – 39.6 x 27.8 in

printed and published by Pictures on Walls, London,

with their blind stamp, with full margins,

 

Banksy created this fantastic artwork ‘I Fought the Law’ in 2004. The artwork is a limited-edition print run is comprised of 500 unsigned pieces and 150 signed pieces, all in black and white with an orange colorway for the writing in the picture.

Is an edition of 47 Artist Proofs, with 8 APs in each of 4 colors: pink, yellow, red, and red-orange, all are the same size.

‘I Fought the Law’ is a humorous anti-authoritarian artwork but the title and graffiti text in the image reference to the Clash song of the same name and is one of two Clash-related references Banksy has used throughout his career; the other being the street art graffiti of a punk smashing an office chair (a reference to the seminal Clash album ‘London Calling.)