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Sale Ends, 2006-2017

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Sale Ends (Version 2), 2017
Edition: 500 signed

Sale Ends (LA Edition) portrays a group of four cloaked individuals starkly outlined in Banksy’s signature black-and-white stenciled style on a white background. The individuals are in various states of praying and worshipping the sign and are dressed in clothing reminiscent of the lamenting figures typically seen at the base of the crucifixion in Renaissance paintings. The bold red sign reading “SALE ENDS TODAY” evokes typical shop signs designed to catch attention and encourage people to purchase products they would not necessarily need, in an obvious critique of our materialistic society.

Sale Ends (LA Edition), 2017
Editions: 150 signed, 100 unsigned
Through this work, Banksy points at the near-religious fervor with which contemporary society regards consumerism. The image can be interpreted as an ironic statement on the glorified, hegemonic status of capitalism and the market, commenting on the nearly religious nature of sales and of consumer goods worshipped by the masses.
With its careful balance of satire and tradition, this work shows Banksy at the height of his creative talent. The people in Sale Ends seem to be mourning the last day of the sale while simultaneously worshipping capitalism, making this an important piece of criticism as well as a striking work of art.

RELEASE HISTORY

Sale Ends was first created in 2006 for Barely Legal, Banksy‘s seminal US exhibition which took place in a warehouse in Los Angeles in September 2006. Banksy presented the work as a large size original on canvas as well as a series of prints.
Part of the Barely Legal Set, Sale Ends was originally printed as an edition of 100 unsigned prints and sold at the show for $500. The other prints in the series were Festival, Grannies, Applause, Trolleys and Morons. The print was originally intended to be a run of 500, but only 100 were printed by Modern Multiples, yet they are numbered /500.
Sale Ends Today, 2006
Oil on canvas
213.4 x 426.7 cm (84×168 inches)
Christie’s Hong-Kong: 24 May 2021
USD 6,060,000
Sale Ends (Version 2), a reworking of the original 2006 version, was released 11 years later. Pictures On Walls announced in 2017 they had ‘been taken over by venture anti-capitalists and will cease trading from 31st December 2017’. At that occasion, they held a closing down sale, during which they released a few remaining print editions as well as 500 prints of Sale Ends (Version 2). Version 2 added a fifth individual to the glorification and mourning of the ending of the sale, and although they’re posed differently – the message is the same.

DESCRIPTION

Sale Ends (Version 2)

Year: 2017
Medium: Screen-print in colors on Arches wove paper
Size: 56×76 cm (22×30 inches)
Publisher: Pictures on Walls

Edition: 500 signed

Sale Ends (LA Edition)

Year: 2006
LA Edition: 100 unsigned, 6 signed Printer’s Proofs (PP)
Numbered /500 even though only 100 were printed
Signed Edition: 150 signed

AUCTION RESULTS

1. Sale Ends (version 2)

Sale Ends (V.2) sold once at auction in 2024, at Forum Auctions on 29 October 2024 for GBP 22,780 (USD 29,568).

Sale Ends (V.2) sold 5 times at auction in 2023 for a total turnover of GBP 129,225 (USD 159,655) at an average price of GBP 25,845 (USD 31,933). It sold for its highest price of 2023 at Forum Auctions on 31 January 2023 for GBP 37,520 (USD 46,150).

Sale Ends (V.2) sold 3 times at auction in 2022 for a total turnover of GBP 100,043 (USD 118,836) at an average price of GBP 33,348 (USD 39,612). It sold at Forum Auctions on 1 September 2022 for GBP 45,560 (USD 52,548), its highest price for 2022.

Sale Ends (V.2) sold 6 times at auction in 2021 for a total turnover of GBP 293,564 (USD 406,837) at an average price of GBP 48,927 (USD 67,806). It sold at Tate Ward Auctions on 24 March 2021 for GBP 56,250 (USD 78,188), its highest price for 2021, its world auction record.

2025 Auction Results

Christie’s online: 1 April 2025
Estimated: GBP 15,000 – 25,000
GBP 20,160 / USD 26,047

BANKSY
Sale Ends (v.2), 2017
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed and numbered 160/500 in pencil, with the artist’s blindstamp

2024 Auction Results

Sale Ends (V.2) sold once at auction in 2024, at Forum Auctions on 29 October 2024 for GBP 22,780 (USD 29,568).

Forum Auctions: 29 October 2024
Estimated: GBP 8,000 – 12,000
Hammer: GBP 17,000
GBP 22,780 / USD 29,568

BANKSY (b.1974)
Sale Ends ‘V.2.’ (signed), 2017
Screenprint in red and black on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 500 with the publisher’s blindstamp

2023 Auction Results

Sale Ends (V.2) sold 5 times at auction in 2023 for a total turnover of GBP 129,225 (USD 159,655) at an average price of GBP 25,845 (USD 31,933). It sold for its highest price of 2023 at Forum Auctions on 31 January 2023 for GBP 37,520 (USD 46,150).


Christie’s online: 28 September 2023
Estimated: GBP 18,000 – 25,000
GBP 23,940 / USD 29,255

BANKSY
Sale Ends (v.2), 2017
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed and numbered 18/500 in pencil

Artnet Auctions: 29 June 2023
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 30,000
USD 25,000

BANKSY
Sale Ends (v.2), 2017
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed and numbered 477/500 in pencil

Tate Ward Auctions: 29 March 2023
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 22,700 / USD 27,945

BANKSY
Sale Ends (V.2), 2017
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed and numbered from the edition of 500

Forum Auctions: 31 January 2023
Estimated: GBP 28,000 – 35,000
Hammer: GBP 28,000
GBP 37,520/ USD 46,150
HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR SALE ENDS (V2) IN 2023

BANKSY
Sale Ends (V.2), 2017
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered from the edition of 500

2022 Auction Results

Sale Ends (V.2) sold 3 times at auction in 2022 for a total turnover of GBP 100,043 (USD 118,836) at an average price of GBP 33,348 (USD 39,612). It sold at Forum Auctions on 1 September 2022 for GBP 45,560 (USD 52,548), its highest price for 2022.

 

Artnet Auctions: 15 December 2022
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 30,000
USD 30,000

BANKSY
Sale Ends (v.2), 2017
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed and numbered 238/500 in pencil

Christie’s online: 21 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 30,240 / USD 36,288

BANKSY
Sale Ends (v.2), 2017
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered 121/500 with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left

Forum Auctions: 1 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 35,000 – 50,000
Hammer: GBP 34,000
GBP 45,560/ USD 52,548
HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR SALE ENDS (V2) IN 2022

BANKSY (b.1974)
Sale Ends ‘V.2.’ (Signed), 2017
Screenprint in red and black on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 500, with the publisher’s blindstamp

2021 Auction Results

Sale Ends (V.2) sold 6 times at auction in 2021 for a total turnover of GBP 293,564 (USD 406,837) at an average price of GBP 48,927 (USD 67,806). It sold at Tate Ward Auctions on 24 March 2021 for GBP 56,250 (USD 78,188), its highest price for 2021, its world auction record.

Christie’s online: 23 September 2021
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 40,000 / USD 55,600
BANKSY
Sale Ends (v.2), 2017
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed in pencil, numbered 432/500, with the publisher’s blindstamp

Sotheby’s Hong-Kong: 20 April 2021
Estimated: HKD 250,000 – 450,000
HKD 478,800 / USD 61,700 / GBP 44,388

BANKSY (b. 1974)
Sale Ends (V.2), 2017
Screenprint
Signed, numbered 340/500 and marked with publisher’s blindstamp

Tate Ward Auctions: 24 March 2021
Estimated: GBP 30,000 – 40,000
GBP 56,250 / USD 78,188
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR SALE ENDS (V2)

BANKSY (British 1974-)
Sale Ends (V2), 2017
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed and numbered from an edition of 500 in pencil

2. Sale Ends (LA Edition)

Sale Ends (LA Edition) last sold at Christie’s online on 14 March 2023, for GBP 16,380 (USD 20,147). It sold twice at auction in 2022 and twice in 2021.

Christies’ online: 14 March 2023
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 16,380 / USD 20,147

BANKSY
Sale Ends (LA Edition), 2006
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Numbered 76/500 in pencil, lower right

Sotheby’s online, 26 April 2022
Estimated: GBP 12,000 – 18,000
GBP 22,680 / USD 28,577

BANKSY
Sale Ends (LA Edition), 2006
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Numbered 51/500 in pencil, lower right
Artnet Auctions: 9 February 2022
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 25,000
USD 37,500
BANKSY
Sale Ends (LA Edition), 2006
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Numbered 120/500 in pencil, lower right

Sotheby’s online: 17 September 2021
Estimated: GBP 12,000 – 18,000
GBP 27,720 / USD 38,531

BANKSY
Sale Ends (LA Edition), 2006
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Numbered 51/500 in pencil, lower right

 

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