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Created in 2006 as part of a tiny edition of just five examples, the work sees Banksy reinterpreting one of the most iconic images in Pop Art history. Replacing Andy Warhol’s celebrated Campbell’s Soup Cans with Tesco Value Tomato Soup, Banksy swaps the glamour of American consumer culture for a distinctly British symbol of everyday life.

Executed as a screenprint with metallic gold detailing set against a deep black background, the work possesses a striking visual presence. The luxurious gold finish contrasts sharply with the budget supermarket branding, creating a tension between value and wealth, aspiration and reality — themes that Banksy has explored throughout his career.

Whilst humorous on first glance, the piece also serves as a commentary on class, consumerism and the changing nature of modern culture. As with many of Banksy’s strongest works, familiar imagery is used to challenge perceptions and encourage closer examination.

Produced in an edition of only five, examples from this series are rarely seen on the market and remain among the most elusive works from this period of the artist’s print output.

Banksy
4 Soup Cans – Gold on Black
2006
Screenprint in colours with metallic gold
70 x 50 cm
Edition of 5 (this example 2/5)
Signed

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Created by Banksy in 2011 in direct response to the Stokes Croft riots in Bristol, the work emerged during a period of intense local opposition to the opening of a new Tesco Express in the area. What began as a protest over corporate expansion quickly escalated into some of the most widely publicised civil unrest seen in the city for years.

In Banksy’s typically provocative style, a supermarket-branded petrol bomb became a powerful symbol of resistance, consumer culture, and the growing tension between local communities and large corporations. The image perfectly demonstrates the artist’s ability to distil complex social and political issues into a single, instantly recognisable visual statement.

Shortly after its creation, the image was reproduced as a large edition of Petrol Bomb lithographs, which were sold at the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair to raise funds for the legal defence of those arrested during the disturbances. As a result, the work occupies a unique position within Banksy’s oeuvre, existing not only as an artwork but also as an active tool for fundraising and protest.

This original, unique painting was acquired by TGB in 2018 and was subsequently placed into an important European collection, where it remains today.

Banksy
Tesco Petrol Bomb
2011
Acrylic, spray paint and emulsion on board, within a burnt wooden frame
90 × 74 cm
Unique
Signed

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Few Banksy originals encapsulate the artist’s social commentary quite as effectively as Trolley Hunters.

Created in 2018, the work depicts three hunter-gatherers advancing across an open landscape, armed with primitive tools and focused not on wild animals, but on abandoned supermarket trolleys. With characteristic wit, Banksy draws a direct comparison between modern consumer culture and humanity’s earliest instincts for survival, questioning whether our priorities have evolved as much as we might like to believe.

Executed in acrylic and spray paint on canvas, the composition is striking in its simplicity. The vast expanse of negative space amplifies the isolation of the figures, while the subtle use of colour on the trolley handles draws the viewer’s attention to the true subject of the hunt. As with many of Banksy’s strongest works, humour and irony serve as the entry point for a much deeper commentary on consumption, value and modern society.

We were delighted to place the work into a prestigious European collection in early 2021, where it remains today.

One of the most intelligent and visually elegant Banksy originals we have had the privilege to handle.

Banksy
Trolley Hunters
2018
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
76 x 102 cm
Unique in format
Signed on front

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Banksy
Turf War
2003
Screen print on paper
50 x 35cm
From the unsigned edition of 600

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In early 2020 TGB placed this exceptional and museum-exhibited Banksy original. At over 2.3 metres tall, Bacchus At The Seaside remains one of the largest and most ambitious vandalised oil paintings we have handled, requiring considerable planning and logistics to install ahead of the client’s viewing.

Created for Banksy’s landmark Banksy vs Bristol Museum exhibition in 2009, the work perfectly demonstrates the artist’s fascination with reclaiming traditional art history and disrupting it with contemporary interventions. Taking a classical seaside scene and transforming it through the addition of a traffic cone and two carefully cut viewing apertures, Banksy turns an otherwise conventional painting into something playful, interactive and distinctly his own.

The face cut-outs invite the viewer to become part of the artwork itself, encouraging participation in a way that challenges the passive relationship traditionally associated with museum paintings. The humour is unmistakably British, evoking the seaside postcard tradition and fairground photo boards, whilst simultaneously questioning ideas of authorship, value and authenticity.

One of the most fascinating details becomes apparent when viewed up close. The traffic cone, which at first glance appears painted directly onto the canvas, is actually a later collaged addition applied over the original painted surface. Details such as this reveal the layered construction of the work and the thought process behind Banksy’s transformation of the underlying oil painting.

As with many of the strongest examples from the vandalised oil series, the work balances humour, technical skill and social observation in equal measure. The result is an artwork that feels both irreverent and historically aware — a hallmark of Banksy’s most celebrated originals.

Needless to say, we couldn’t resist taking a few photographs through the cut-out faces during installation. Some archive images are perhaps best saved for another day…

Banksy
Bacchus At The Seaside
2009
Vandalised oil painting on canvas
230.5 × 206 cm
Unique
Frame integral, complete with stand
Exhibited in Banksy vs Bristol Museum, 2009

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Banksy
Stop and Search
2007
Screen print on paper
76 x 56cm
From the signed edition of 500

For further info please email [email protected]

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Some works manage to distil Banksy’s visual language down to its absolute essentials, and Radar Rat is one of the finest examples.

Created in 2002, this small canvas belongs to the artist’s celebrated rat series, a body of work that helped establish the rat as one of Banksy’s most enduring motifs. Inspired by the idea that rats exist on the fringes of society yet continue to thrive despite attempts to control them, Banksy often used the animal as a stand-in for the overlooked, the rebellious and the anti-establishment.

In this particular composition, the rat stands before a striking red radar target, creating an image that feels both playful and ominous. The target transforms the work from a simple character study into a commentary on surveillance, authority and those who find themselves perpetually under scrutiny. As with many of Banksy’s strongest images, the message is delivered with remarkable economy — a few stencilled elements conveying an idea far larger than the canvas itself.

TGB placed this work into a prominent European collection in 2020.

Banksy
Radar Rat
2002
Spray paint on canvas
25.5 × 25.5 cm
From a series
Unsigned. Right facing rat. Tagged on right hand overlap

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Banksy
Flying Copper
2003
Screen print on paper
100 x 70cm
From the unsigned edition of 600

For further info please email [email protected]

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Love it or hate it, Sid Vicious remains one of the most divisive works from Banksy’s early Bristol period.

Created in 2000, the work draws on the instantly recognisable image of S*x Pistols frontman Sid Vicious, presented in a repeated grid format that echoes the language of Pop Art while simultaneously reflecting the DIY attitude and anti-establishment spirit of punk culture. The vivid pink background and stark stencil ex*****on place the work firmly within Banksy’s formative years, a period when he was experimenting with many of the visual devices and cultural references that would later become synonymous with his practice.

Unlike the highly polished editions and canvases that followed, these early works possess a rawness that collectors often find particularly appealing. The overspray, imperfections and hand-executed nature of the stencil work serve as a reminder that Banksy was still operating from Bristol’s underground scene, producing works in small numbers long before international recognition arrived.

This particular canvas was sourced by TGB for a US collector in late 2020 and remains one of our favourite examples from this period. Beyond the artwork itself, its provenance is especially interesting, having appeared in the window of Alterior Clothing in Bristol in 2000 alongside several other now-iconic early Banksy images. Photographs of that display provide a fascinating snapshot of a moment in time before Banksy became a global phenomenon.

Works such as Sid Vicious offer an important glimpse into the artist’s development, revealing the influences of music, subculture and rebellion that would continue to underpin much of his work throughout the following decades.

Banksy
Sid Vicious
2000
Spray paint and emulsion on canvas
91.7 × 91.7 cm
From a varied series
Unsigned, tagged lower right corner

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