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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 600
Year: 2003
Size: H 70cm x W 50cm
Signed: No
Format: Unsigned Print
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Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
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December 2024 | Great Western Auctions | United Kingdom | |||
November 2024 | Julien's Auctions | United States | |||
September 2024 | Sotheby's London | United Kingdom | |||
April 2024 | Forum Auctions London | United Kingdom | |||
April 2024 | Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers | United Kingdom | |||
September 2023 | Lama | United States | |||
September 2023 | Sotheby's London | United Kingdom |
Laugh Now is a Banksy screen print from 2003, released in an unsigned edition of 600. Featuring a monkey wearing a sandwich board that reads "Laugh Now But One Day We'll Be In Charge". The original artwork first appeared in a Brighton nightclub.
‘Laugh Now But One Day We’ll Be In Charge’, reads the sandwich board worn by the slightly ominous monkey replicated against a striking red background in this 1998 Banksy original, which first appeared in a Brighton nightclub in 2002 before going onto being released as a print the following year.
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. Such sandwich boards are usually associated with “prophets of doom”, preaching the looming apocalypse on the streets. Or perhaps it is simply a monkey, by which Banksy is commenting on how man has enslaved animals for centuries, including our distant primate relatives, much like he does in the work Barcode with a leopard. It could also be a symbol for the common man of the working class, who is exploited, exhausted and enslaved by capitalism, themes that Banksy regularly revisits through a range of various characters such as a rat in other famous prints like Love Rat and Gangsta Rat.
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