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Laugh Now - Signed Print by Banksy 2003 - MyArtBroker

Laugh Now
Signed Print

Banksy

£50,000-£70,000Value Indicator

$100,000-$140,000 Value Indicator

$90,000-$130,000 Value Indicator

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€60,000-€80,000 Value Indicator

$530,000-$740,000 Value Indicator

¥9,940,000-¥13,920,000 Value Indicator

$70,000-$90,000 Value Indicator

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70 x 50cm, Edition of 150, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 150

Year: 2003

Size: H 70cm x W 50cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: December 2024

Value Trend:

-3% AAGR

AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

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Auction Results

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Location
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December 2024
Tradart Deauville
France
N/A
N/A
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September 2024
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
September 2024
Christie's London
United Kingdom
September 2023
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
August 2023
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
April 2023
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
August 2022
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
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Banksy's Laugh Now (signed), a screenprint from 2003, is estimated to be valued between £50,000 and £70,000. This artwork has shown consistent popularity, having been sold 44 times at auction since its initial sale in April 2008. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £45,625, across a total of 4 sales. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £40,000 in September 2024 to £120,960 in March 2021. The current average annual growth rate is -3%. This is a limited edition artwork, with only 150 prints in existence.

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Meaning & Analysis

‘Laugh now, but one day we’ll be in charge’, reads the sandwich board worn by the eerie monkey in this 2003 Banksy signed print. Much like with Banksy’s visual vocabulary in general, there can be various interpretations for the monkey figure in this work. It can be viewed as a representation of the oppressed, who walk the streets until they’re exhausted in order to spread their message. Or perhaps it is simply a monkey, by which Banksy is commenting on how man has enslaved animals for centuries, including his primate cousins, much like he does in the work Barcode with a leopard, or it could be a symbol for the common man, the average Joe who is downtrodden by class wars and enslaved by capitalism, themes that Banksy regularly revisits through different characters such as a rat in other famous prints like Love Rat and Gangsta Rat.

Laugh Now was a commission before being released as a print, it appeared in a nightclub in Brighton and eventually went on to be sold for almost half a million dollars.