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Stop and Search, 2007

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Stop and Search, 2007
Edition: 500 signed

‘Banksy would doubtless have you believe this print is an ironic comment on the paranoid nature of our security-minded times.
But seriously, how much is this guy courting the pink pound?
It’s got a man in uniform, latex, and Dorothy herself all in one spanky package.’

Stop and Search was released in 2007 as an edition of 500 signed prints. This work portrays, in monochrome, a storyline with Dorothy (the central character from the Wizard of Oz), her dog, Toto, and a splash of blue in the police officer’s latex gloves. The police officer is searching through Dorothy’s basket and appears to be questioning her about something he has found in her basket.

This print relates to the plot of The Wizard of Oz and suggests that Dorothy and Toto are being prevented from getting home. The purity and naivety associated with the protagonist in the film is embedded within the artwork and only accentuates the absurdity of the search itself. Dorothy is a character representing innocence and freedom, and yet even she is not free from the menacing influence of the state.

Stop and Search, Jerusalem, 2007

Stop and Search illustrates a theme dear to Banksy: defiance towards authority and law enforcement, a topic he revisits in many of his works. For example, a mural by the same name appeared in Palestine in 2013 except that. in this work, it is the school age girl in a pink dress searching the soldier. This is a classic, humoristic twist employed by the artist whereby the roles are reversed to further highlight how unfair, absurd, and excessive he feels the state’s reach has become.

Stop and Search, Glastonbury, 2007

Stop and Search Original

DESCRIPTION


Stop and Search

Year: 2007
Medium: Screen-print in colors on Arches wove paper
Size: 76×56 cm (30×22 inches)
Publisher: Pictures on Walls

Editions

Edition: 500 signed

Numbering and Signature

Signed in blue crayon, lower right
Numbered /500 in pencil, with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left

AUCTION RESULTS


Updated as of 10 March 2023

 

Auction Results (2020/2022)

Stop and Search, 2007
Signed in blue crayon, lower right
Numbered 378/500 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left
Sotheby’s online: 17 August 2022
GBP 50,400 / USD 60,480

Stop and Search, 2007
Signed in blue crayon, lower right
Numbered 235/500 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left
Heritage Auctions: 28 July 2022
USD 62,500

Stop and Search, 2007
Signed in blue crayon, lower right
Numbered 334/500 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left
Sotheby’s London: 30 June 2022

GBP 50,400 / USD 61,992

Stop and Search, 2007
Signed in blue crayon, lower right
Numbered 222/500 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left
Phillips London: 15 June 2022

GBP 69,300 / USD 85,239

Stop and Search, 2007
Signed in blue crayon, lower right
Numbered 98/500 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left
Sotheby’s online: 26 April 2022

GBP 63,000 / USD 79,380

Stop and Search, 2007
Signed in blue crayon, lower right
Numbered XXX/500 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left
Tate Ward Auctions: 29 September 2021
GBP 81,250 / USD 112,938
Stop and Search, 2007
Signed in blue crayon, lower right
Numbered 210/500 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left
Christie’s online: 23 September 2021
GBP 87,500 / USD 121,625
Stop and Search, 2007
Signed in blue crayon, lower right
Numbered 467/500 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left
Sotheby’s online: 17 September 2021
GBP 75,600 / USD 105,084