LOVE PLANE, 2011

Auction History

Catalogue Note

Love Plane was painted in 2011 by Banksy onto the side of Norwich House, which backs onto Rumford Street car park, opposite the Liverpool War Museum. The piece originally formed part of a more substantial artwork, which depicted the intricately detailed biplane, with a long plume of heart shaped white smoke behind it. Another rendering of the stencil, featuring the plane with a red plume of smoke behind it, had appeared in Wapping, London a short while before, but was painted out almost immediately by the owners of the building on which it had appeared.

In 2016, the piece was removed from its location by the building’s freeholders who wished to preserve it prior to commencing extensive building works and the piece was sent off for restoration in preparation for its proposed display, along with a number of other Banksy pieces from the area, at a street art museum in Berry House, Baltic Triangle, but the proposed display was never realized.