MISSING ORIGINAL
Vandalized Oil Painting #31
Year: 2005
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unknown
Edition: Unique
Exhibition History
Santa’s Ghetto, London, 2005
The work belongs to Banksy’s widely celebrated series, the “Crude Oils”. In these hijacked traditional oil paintings, the artist inserts his iconic stencil figures into Old Masters works. In doing so, he tackles relevant issues and formulates sharp social commentary through subversive humor. They’re both a reference to ideas of the “readymade” and artists like Marcel Duchamp, as well as to ideas of Pop Art around mass production and appropriation. Banksy has successfully placed these artworks into exhibitions of respected museums and art galleries around the world, including The Louvre, The Tate, The British Museum and New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
