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Banksy - Choose Your Weapon Olive, 2010, Screen print

Choose Your Weapon Olive, 2010

Screen print

27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in 70 x 70 cm

Edition

Edition of 25

About this work

Choose Your Weapon Olive is a screen print created by Banksy in 2010, produced in a limited edition of 25. One of four distinct colorways released as part of the Choose Your Weapon series — alongside Silver, Red, and Soft Yellow — each edition of 25 was released as a discrete variation, making the full set of colorways a formal investigation into how tonal context shapes meaning. The olive colorway lends the composition a subdued, military-green register that deepens the work's engagement with questions of threat, resistance, and social power. The Choose Your Weapon series deploys Banksy's characteristic strategy of subversive juxtaposition — through image, composition, and title, he invites the viewer to reconsider the nature of perceived threat and the social construction of danger. The word 'weapon' carries obvious connotations of violence, yet the work's visual language complicates any simple reading, playing on the gap between fear and reality. The screen print medium — with its flat, bold areas of color and high-contrast graphic clarity — is the natural vehicle for Banksy's work, which draws on graffiti traditions, political poster art, and the vernacular of mass communication to reach a broad audience. The olive colorway gives the print a distinctive tonality that sets it apart from the other variants in the series. Banksy is the pseudonymous British street artist and activist whose work has achieved extraordinary cultural reach and critical recognition while maintaining the anonymity and anti-institutional stance that defines his practice. Working across public walls, gallery spaces, and through carefully produced limited editions, his works engage consistently with political, economic, and social questions through wit, visual intelligence, and the strategic deployment of surprise. Choose Your Weapon Olive, as one of 25 prints in this colorway, represents an important and collectible edition from a significant period in Banksy's output, and from an artist whose work continues to be widely celebrated and highly sought after by collectors internationally.

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Auction History

Banksy - Choose your Weapon (VIP Gold)

Choose your Weapon (VIP Gold) · Banksy · Christie's · 2022-03 · $313,046

Banksy - Choose Your Weapon - Bright Pink

Choose Your Weapon - Bright Pink · Banksy · Phillips · 2021-06 · $260,005

Banksy - Choose Your Weapon - Lemon

Choose Your Weapon - Lemon · Banksy · Phillips · 2020-12 · $243,746

Banksy - Choose Your Weapon - Bright Pink

Choose Your Weapon - Bright Pink · Banksy · Sotheby's · 2021-09 · $243,430

Banksy - Choose Your Weapon (Bright Purple)

Choose Your Weapon (Bright Purple) · Banksy · Bonhams · 2021-06 · $242,399

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About Banksy

Banksy prints for sale at Guy Hepner include authenticated signed and unsigned editions: Girl with Balloon, Choose Your Weapon, Tesco Soup Cans, Fragile, Laugh Now, and Flower Thrower. Buy Banksy prints in New York through our gallery at 177 Tenth Avenue — all works sourced with full provenance and authentication documentation. We also buy Banksy art and offer free valuations for sellers.

Banksy is the world’s most celebrated anonymous street artist — a figure whose identity remains unknown but whose visual language is instantly recognisable across continents. Emerging from the Bristol graffiti scene in the early 1990s, Banksy developed a stencil-based technique that allowed rapid, precise execution on walls, bridges, and public surfaces from London and New York to Gaza and the West Bank. His work fuses dark humour, political provocation, and formal rigour in a way that has made him equally at home on the street and in the auction room. Today, Banksy art for sale represents one of the most dynamic and hotly contested segments of the contemporary secondary market.

Banksy Art For Sale

Banksy art for sale encompasses original spray-painted canvases, unique works on board, signed and unsigned print editions, and — on rare occasions — documented wall works sold with photographic authentication. The breadth of subjects he has addressed is remarkable: consumer capitalism (Tesco Soup Cans, Trolley Hunters), celebrity culture (Kate Moss, Andy Warhol), surveillance and control (Radar Rat, CCTV Watching), and hope and fragility (Girl with Balloon, Fragile).

The benchmark auction event in Banksy’s market history remains the October 2018 Sotheby’s London sale, when Girl with Balloon — having just sold for £1.04 million — was partially shredded by a device concealed in the frame, becoming Love is in the Bin. The reconstituted work subsequently sold in October 2021 for £18.5 million, underscoring the extraordinary commercial power of Banksy’s interventions and the appetite of the global collector base for his most iconic imagery.

Banksy Paintings For Sale

Banksy paintings for sale — unique spray-painted works on canvas or board — are the rarest and most valuable category of his output. These works, typically produced in small numbers for specific shows or commissions, carry full documentation from Pest Control and have appeared at auction with results ranging from six to eight figures. Choose Your Weapon, Monkey Parliament, and large-format stencil canvases from his early 2000s output represent the apex of private collector demand.

Provenance is paramount for Banksy paintings. Unbroken ownership history from first sale through to the present day, combined with a current Pest Control certificate, is the minimum standard for any serious acquisition. Works without this documentation carry substantial authentication risk regardless of visual appearance.

Banksy Prints: Signed vs Unsigned

Banksy print editions form the most accessible and widely traded category of his market. Published through his own distribution channels and in very limited numbers, these screenprints exist in signed and unsigned variants — a distinction that has a significant impact on value. Signed editions — with Banksy’s hand signature — command multiples of two to five times comparable unsigned editions in the same print run.

Key print series sought by collectors include: Girl with Balloon (multiple colourways), Choose Your Weapon, Kate Moss, Tesco Soup Cans, Fragile, Radar Rat, Flower Thrower, and Di-Faced Tenners. Edition sizes vary from as few as 150 to several hundred, and sell-through rates at auction confirm strong secondary demand across all major series.

Banksy Authentication: Pest Control

Pest Control is Banksy’s official authentication body and the only organisation authorised to certify works as genuine. When you buy Banksy prints or original art, a current Pest Control Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is the non-negotiable standard. The COA features a torn currency note — half retained by Pest Control, half with the work — as a security measure, and is registered against a specific edition and owner.

At Guy Hepner Gallery, every Banksy work offered for sale is accompanied by Pest Control documentation. We do not offer works without verified authentication, and our team is available to guide collectors through the acquisition process, including condition reporting, framing recommendations, and insurance valuation.

Ready to buy Banksy art? Contact Guy Hepner to explore our current inventory of authenticated Banksy prints and original works.

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