NOLA (Green Rain)

Name: BANKSY
Brand: NOLA (Green Rain)
Price: 120000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 151,200

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NOLA (Green Rain)

Price Realised GBP 151,200

BANKSY
NOLA (Green Rain)
screenprint in colours, 2007, on wove paper, signed in pencil, numbered 17/31, published by Pictures on Walls, London, with the artist's blindstamp

This lot is offered with the new Certificate of Authenticity from Pest Control.
Image 636 x 438 mm.
Sheet 749 x 547 mm.

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.

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Lot Essay

NOLA (Green Rain) (also sometimes referred to as 'Yellow Rain') employs a fluorescent greenish-yellow pigment and is one of the most desirable variations of this iconic motif, having been published in a small edition size of 31. The other published editions of NOLA were: White Rain (edition of 289); Grey Rain (edition of 63) and Orange Rain (edition of 32). There were also a total of 66 Artist's Proofs issued in a variety of transitional colours, including NOLA (Green to Blue Rain) sold at Christie's London in July 2021.

The title 'NOLA' is an abbreviation for New Orleans, Louisiana (LA), the city where Banksy's first version of this subject appeared as a stenciled graffiti work in 2008. The image of a girl being drenched by rain that is falling from inside of her umbrella is in reference to the devastating events of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which had been amplified by failure of the flood defences that had been designed to protect the citizens from such a disaster.