Lot 296

Ben Eine (b.1970) ‘SCANDAL’ signed & dated in coloured pencil 'BEN EINE-2009' numbered 44/50

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18 Feb 2024 · Urban Art | Banksy, Andy Warhol, Connor Brothers & more | Limited Edition Prints, Posters & Collectables | Collective Auction | Closes for Entries 29/01/24

Description

Images may say more than words. Rare and an opportunity.

'Scandal' it is a raw political statement capturing emotion and outrage.

Detail and popping colour draw your attention to the bowler hatted banker. A homage to Nick Walkers Vandal.

Signed, dated, numbered and blind stamped by the artist from a 2009 edition.

Artist : Ben Eine

Title : 'Scandal'

Medium : Hand pulled Screenprint in 6 colours on heavy wove paper,

Signed : and dated BEN EINE

Year : 2009

Blind Stamp : Poodle Publishers

Limited Edition : numbered '44/50' in pencil, with poodle blind stamp l.l.

Dimensions : Sheet 70 x 70cm,

Unframed

Condition Report : stored flat, No issues to printed area. See images as these are part of the description.

About The ART and the ARTIST

'Scandal' is a raw political statement capturing the emotion and outrage that encapsulates the public when governmental policy or banking and commerce forces uninvited decision and consequence. This politically colour popping image from early in Eines career where only images could convey Eines sentiments and be more viscerally expressive and angry than his typography.

Ben Eine has built an exuberant street art practice around intricate, colourful typography.

In the wake of the 2008 UK financial meltdown Eine made an incendiary attack on bankers and the establishment. Scandal is a raw Graf art concept reacting to all the things which the public were enduring from the fallout of

This silk screen print on wove paper is a part of an Edition of 50 that Eine produced in 2009, which went on to be modified in a smaller second edition size in 2013. The subjects are all politically fuelled from events from the past from which the style is heavily influenced by Gilbert and Georges panel paintings.

In 2013 Eine released ‘Fight’ in which the subject remained the same but removed the banker and reduced the Grid ratio to represent angst in a 2013 context.

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