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This summer, Julien’s Auctions will be raising the gavels up in STREET ART INVASION, a showcase of today’s most subversive and revolutionary visual works by the radical art movement’s biggest visionaries, Banksy, Invader and Shepard Fairey, heading directly from the urban spaces they occupied to the auction podium Thursday, July 11^th, 2024 live and online at Julien’s Auctions.

BANKSY’S FAMOUS RATS 

Leading the pack is an infestation of Banksy’s famous Rats, the elusive British street art superstar’s satiric symbols of the potential uprising of the masses against capitalistic society.

Placard RatA black aerosol stencil painting on a newsagents board on Grays Inn Road, London, circa early 2004, which would be a motif used in a number of locations around London for the public to write their own message on the placard. Documented in a 2004 issue of Elle Decoration magazine. Board: 28 x 19 inches; Acrylic Case: 32.25 x 23.25 inches  Estimate: US$40,000-50,000/ HK$312,000-390,000	Gangsta Rat A black aerosol stencil painting with a boombox which was executed on the side of a British street bollard, circa 2009.  35.5 x 14.5 x 14.5 inches Estimate: US$30,000-50,000/ HK$234,000-390,000	Umbrella RatA black aerosol stencil painting of a white-collared rat, wearing a bowler hat and tie, parachuting with an umbrella executed on a heavy steel door located below an S-Bahn railway arch in the Mitte borough of Berlin, Germany, circa 2004. 83 x 48 inches  Estimate: US$30,000-50,000/ HK$234,000-390,000

INVADER ORIGINAL MOSAIC ARTWORKS

Original mosaic artworks from street artist, Invader, whose world-famous “Invasions” in international cities have become legendary and depictions of pixelated video game aliens from Space Invaders to Pac-Man and Super Mario Bros. have become pop culture phenomenon will join the revolution. 

	(picture left) HK_91A “money bag” mosaic originally affixed to the side of a building on Wyndham Street in Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong in 2015  Framed: 39.5 x 23.5 inches; Mosaic: 21.5 x 15.75 inches Estimate: US$10,000-20,000/ HK$78,000-156,000
PA_041A very rare early example of Invader’s earliest works to come to market. Originally executed in circa 1998 on the side of a railway overpass on Boulevard Macdonald in Paris, France. 9.25 x 10.75 inches Estimate: US$6,000-8,000/ HK$46,800-62,400	Mia-72Originally executed in 2012 on the side of a parking garage in Miami, Florida. Contains unusual reflective tiles for the eyes.  Framed: 9.5 x 12.75 inches; Sight: 6.5 x 9.5 inches Estimate: US$4,000-6,000/ HK$31,200-46,800

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

Shepard Fairey Hand of Doom – Sound of MusicWorks from activist, DJ and skateboarder Shepard Fairey, famed for his limited-edition prints and iconic Barack Obama “Hope” poster, will surface such as his 2016 signed original aerosol stencil artwork “Hand of Doom – Sound of Music” executed on a discarded record album sleeve – originally the soundtrack for The Sound of Music  Framed: 23.25 x 23.25 inches; Artwork: 12.25 x 12.25 inches Estimate: US$3,000-5,000/ HK$23,400-39,000

DcypherElevatedPainted live by Dcypher in 2013 during the “Style Wars” event at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  Aerosol on plywood 96 x 96 x 4 inches Estimate: US$2,000-4,000/ HK$15,600-31,200

“Julien’s has put together an unrivalled collection of the most fearless and stirring underground works of rebellion from the streets’ most legendary guerrilla art warriors,” said David Goodman, CEO of Julien’s Auctions. “From Banksy’s signature Rats to Invader’s beloved Aliens to Shepard Fairey’s Hand of Doom, their defining works represent the street art movement’s most powerful and provocative statements of all time.”

*Cover Photo/Thumbnail Photo from Julien’s Auction