Festival, 2006
Editions: 150 signed, 500 unsigned (100 printed)
Festival, also known as Destroy Capitalism, depicts a group of people at a music festival queuing up to buy t-shirts. They are clearly portrayed as punks, goths and hippies attending some sort of music festival with clothes, haircuts and attitudes representative of those subcultures. They represent what society might consider as anti-capitalists or “outsiders.” However, they queue up to buy a $30 t-shirt, just like the rest of society – illustrating the power that capitalism holds even for its most fervent opponents.

Edition: 33 signed AP
RELEASE HISTORY


DESCRIPTION
Festival, Destroy Capitalism
Editions
AUCTION RESULTS
1. Festival (unsigned)
Festival (unsigned) did not sell at auction in 2024.
Festival (unsigned) sold once at auction in 2023, at Christie’s online, on 14 March 2023, for GBP 15,120 (USD 18,958).
Festival (unsigned) sold 3 times at auction in 2022, at an average price of GBP 24,835 (USD 29,388). It sold at Sotheby’s online on 26 April 2022 for GBP 32,760 (USD 41,278), its highest price in 2022.
2025 Auction Results
Christie’s online: 1 April 2025
Estimated: GBP 12,000 – 18,000
GBP 17,640 / USD 22,791
BANKSY
Festival (Destroy Capitalism) (unsigned), 2006
Screenprint in colours on Arches wove paper
Numbered 52/500 in pencil
2023 Auction Results
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 15,120 / USD 18,598

Festival (Destroy Capitalism) (LA Edition), 2006
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Numbered 76/500 in pencil, lower right
2022 Auction Results
Estimated: GBP 12,000 – 18,000
GBP 14,025 / USD 15,890
BANKSY
Festival (LA Edition), 2006
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove
Numbered 113/500 in pencil, lower right
Phillips London: 15 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 20,000 – 30,000
GBP 27,720 / USD 30,996
BANKSY
Festival (unsigned), 2006
Screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Numbered 43/500 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left
Sotheby’s online: 26 April 2022
Estimated: GBP 12,000 – 18,000
GBP 32,760 / USD 41,278
Festival (LA Edition), 2006
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Numbered 62/500 in pencil, lower right

Festival (unsigned), 2006
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
2. Festival (signed)
Estimated: GBP 30,000 – 50,000

Festival (Color AP), 2006
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Tate Ward Auctions: 24 June 2020

Festival (Brown AP), 2006
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Estimated: GBP 20,000 – 30,000
GBP 60,000 / USD 78,755

Festival (Destroy Capitalism) (signed), from Barely Legal, 2006
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
Signed, dated and numbered ‘3/6 P/P’ in pencil
A printers proof, there was a signed edition of 150, an unsigned edition of 500, and 17 artist’s proofs