"It is becoming clear that Banksy is probably one of the most consequential artists of our time. It's hard since within the art world, you're not supposed to like Banksy because the art world didn't make him-he's the only artist who made himself."
"The work emerged from the British street artist's seminal 'Crude Oils' series, started in the early 2000s. First unveiled in a small storefront in London, the series saw Banksy disrupting romanticized landscapes, some of them Old Master reproductions, with symbols of present-day decay."
"In Girl and Balloon, one of the artist's most iconic motifs is seen on the bank of a gauzily rendered river with a mountain rising in the distance, the buoyant red balloon providing the vista's only pop of color. Gouzer called it 'a compressed distillation of Banksy in one work.'"
A previously unseen Banksy work titled Girl and Balloon from the artist's seminal 'Crude Oils' series is being sold at auction on May 20, 2012, with an estimated value of $13-18 million. The painting features one of Banksy's most iconic motifs against a romanticized landscape backdrop. The 'Crude Oils' series, which began in the early 2000s, disrupted idealized landscapes and Old Master reproductions with symbols of contemporary decay and social commentary. Fair Warning founder Loïc Gouzer, a former Christie's executive, believes Banksy's trajectory parallels Jean-Michel Basquiat's, positioning the street artist as one of the most consequential artists of our time despite traditional art world resistance.
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