Banksy | Di-Faced Tenner Modern Equestrian Painting

Banksy | Di-Faced Tenner Modern Equestrian PaintingBanksy (b. c. 1974) Di Faced Tenner Offset lithograph 2004 In 2004, Banksy printed one million pounds' worth of fake ten pound notes substituting Princess Diana's face for the Queen's, and the words "Banksy of England" for "Bank of England." He distributed them at the Notting Hill Carnival. Some were spent in shops. The Bank of England noted that while the notes were clearly not legal tender, no prosecutions were pursued. The Di Faced Tenner is

Trained at the Fine Art Academy in Florence

The pink variant of Future Leader brings its own political resonances — pink as the colour historically excluded from the leader category

Her work sits in a tradition that includes Damien Hirst's medicine cabinet pieces and the broader YBA engagement with pharmaceutical and medical imagery

the two works in dialogue as much as in individual statement

more melancholy

this work has been elevated into a fine-art screenprint that challenges boundaries with wit and style

The hand embellishment ensures each canvas is unique within the edition

ordinary life and extreme violence coexisting in the same breath — loses none of its force at this price point

This is not a painting about banking

engineering

Signed limited edition silkscreen | Sold out edition

Bradley Theodore was born in the Turks and Caicos Islands and trained at the Jamaica School of Art before moving to New York