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Barcode - Unsigned Print by Banksy 2004 - MyArtBroker

Barcode
Unsigned Print

Banksy

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50 x 70cm, Edition of 600, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 600

Year: 2004

Size: H 50cm x W 70cm

Signed: No

Format: Unsigned Print

Last Auction: June 2025

Value Trend:

-6% AAGR

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
June 2025
Karl & Faber
Germany
£10,184
£11,981
£14,977
March 2024
Tate Ward Auctions
United Kingdom
March 2024
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
February 2024
Michaan's Auctions
United States
December 2023
Bonhams Knightsbridge
United Kingdom
July 2023
Bukowskis, Stockholm
Sweden
March 2023
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
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Banksy's Barcode (2004) is a screenprint, estimated to be worth between £10,000 and £16,000. This artwork has been sold 72 times at auction since its initial sale on 5th February 2014. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £11,981, across 2 total sales. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied from £9,533 in February 2024 to £80,000 in December 2020. The average annual growth rate of this work is currently -6%. This piece is part of a limited edition of 600.

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Meaning & Analysis

Banksy often employs a monochromatic palette to emphasise his powerful message and this black and white artwork is that signature stencil-style. It shows a majestic leopard in the foreground coming forth as if it was exiting the frame towards the viewer. Behind the leopard is a cage, which resembles a barcode from which the leopard seems to have escaped, given its bent bars.

Since Banksy’s beginnings in graffiti, he has been noted for his social commentary, taking on issues from police brutality, to the refugee crisis, war and animal cruelty. Here Banksy might be commenting on the way in which humans 'use' the environment and those creatures within it for their own entertainment or amusement – the most notable example of course, being zoos or sea-parks. The motif of the barcode suggests a critique of consumerism and commercial capitalism, which puts a price tag on everything including animal and human life. Animals are among his favourite symbols, often used in subversive artworks such as rats (Love Rat, Gangsta Rat) and monkeys (Laugh Now) also as a potential metaphor for people of the working class.