Banksy prices and valuation
Request pricing for an outright purchase. What comparable prints have actually made, what an auction estimate should be and which sale date to aim at, and when a private sale is the better route.
Where a number here is an average, an estimate or a modelling assumption, it says so — because most price guides in this market do not, and that is precisely how people end up disappointed.
- Signed average
- ≈£35,000
- Reported 2026 auction average across signed editions.
- Unsigned average
- ≈£12,000
- Reported 2026 auction average across unsigned editions.
- Signed premium
- ≈2.9×
- The ratio between the two averages above. Arithmetic, not a survey.
- Market peak
- 2021
- Values reset sharply afterwards and the market has been selective since.
How much is a Banksy worth?
Asked about Banksy in general, the honest answer is a range so wide it is no use to anybody — a few hundred pounds and several million are both correct, depending entirely on which object is in front of you. Banksy art prices are not one market but several sitting under one name: unique works, signed editions, unsigned editions, and the screenprints that were bought for very little and are now the bulk of what changes hands. A signed and an unsigned impression of the same image are catalogued separately and bought by different people.
So the question only becomes answerable once the image is named, and it becomes answerable quite precisely. The figures below are the market-wide picture, the estimator narrows it to a single title and edition, and photographs of your own sheet close the rest of the distance. None of that costs anything.
A rough range, before we speak
Choose your print and whether it is signed. What comes back is a published figure for that title and that edition — not an average across everything the artist has printed. Condition, edition type and paperwork sit under it because they are what we look at when we value a specific sheet, and a faded or creased print is worth a great deal less than a clean one; they deliberately do not move the range shown here, because a published figure belongs to a market rather than to your print. Send photographs and we will place yours against it, condition included.
Indicative range
£140,000 – £160,000
If you have lost, misplaced or never had your Pest Control certificate, please tell us — we can usually help expedite the process.
Price estimates: Auction vs Private sale?
We can provide you with both price options, usually on the same day. No charge and no obligation.
Banksy prices: signed against unsigned
The gap between the two averages is the single most important thing on this page. Signed editions are far smaller than unsigned ones, and the premium follows the scarcity rather than the ink. Quoted as a single figure, Banksy prices average two markets that barely overlap.
- Signed£35,000
- Unsigned£12,000
Disparity across print titles
Two individual prints landing at five and three times the signed average is not an anomaly — it is the normal spread of this market. Anyone quoting you “the price of a Banksy print” without naming the image is guessing.
- Kate Moss AP£179,200
- Gangsta Rat£116,100
- Signed average£35,000
Figures we can point at
The estimator at the head of this page answers from published per-title figures rather than from an average multiplied by assumptions — sixty-six prints, signed and unsigned held apart. Below are the few we hold directly rather than derive: a saleroom’s own estimate, and our assessment of a print we are asked about more than any other.
| Figure | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| Girl with BalloonUnsigned, edition of 600 | £60,000 – £80,000Auction estimate | Listed via ArtsySeptember 2026 |
| Girl with BalloonSigned, edition of 150 | £140,000 – £160,000Our assessment | Whitebank Fine Art, current market assessmentSeptember 2026 |
An estimate is what a saleroom expects before a sale; a result is what was paid; an assessment is our own view of where a work sits today, informed by the market rather than drawn from a single sale. The column says which, because they are not the same thing and an assessment should never be read as a saleroom figure. A print absent from this list shows nothing here rather than a guess — send photographs and we will tell you what yours is against.
What sets the value
Signed or unsigned
The single largest division in the print market. Signed and unsigned editions of the same image are traded as two different things by two different sets of buyers, and are catalogued separately. It is the first question any auction house will ask you.
Edition and format
Which edition a print belongs to, its size, and whether it is a numbered impression, an artist's proof or one of the other designations outside the main run. Each sits differently in the market, and the distinction is not always obvious from the sheet alone.
Pest Control paperwork
Pest Control is the artist's own authentication body, and the certificate it issues is what the major salerooms expect to see. Whether a work has one, and whether that paperwork is intact and matches the work, changes both what it is worth and where it can realistically be sold.
Which image it is
Two prints from the same year, the same edition size and the same condition can sit a long way apart because one image is wanted and the other is not. Demand attaches to subjects, and it is neither uniform across the catalogue nor stable over time. This is why a figure quoted for “a Banksy print” without naming the image is not a valuation.
Hand-finishing, proofs and special editions
Anything outside the standard numbered run behaves differently: hand-finished impressions where the artist has worked on the sheet after printing, artist's and printer's proofs, and the colourways and variants released alongside a main edition. These are scarcer than the edition they sit beside, and they are also where misdescription is most common — a sheet marked as a proof is not always one.
Condition
These are works on paper, and they mark. Fading from display, handling creases, tape and hinge damage from earlier framing, and trimming all read through to the estimate. Condition is judged against what the edition normally looks like, not against perfection.
Blind stamps, paper and the physical details
The sheet itself carries evidence: the publisher's blind stamp and where it sits, the paper and its weight, the margins and whether they have been cut, and how the printing looks at the edges of the image. These are the details a specialist checks first when something about a print does not sit right, and they are the ones photographs most often miss — which is why we ask for the corners and the reverse, not just the picture.
Provenance
Where the work has been since it left the artist. A clean chain of ownership with paperwork behind it removes questions a specialist would otherwise have to raise, and questions raised late in a consignment cost time and estimate.
Recorded results, and where they come from
These are publicly reported figures, not our own transactions. Every row carries its source so you can go and check it.
| Work | Result | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keep It SpotlessHousehold gloss and spray paint on canvas, 2007 | $1.87m | February 2008 | Sotheby's, as widely reported |
| Devolved ParliamentOil on canvas, 2009 | £9.9m | 3 October 2019 | Sotheby's, as widely reported |
| Girl With BalloonSpray paint and acrylic on canvas, 2006 | £1.04m | 5 October 2018 | Sotheby's, as widely reported |
| Love is in the BinThe same canvas, retitled after the shredding | £18.6m | 14 October 2021 | Sotheby's, as widely reported |
| Game ChangerOil on canvas, 2020, sold for NHS charities | £16.8m | 23 March 2021 | Christie's, as widely reported |
| Girl With BalloonGold artist's proof, print | £1.1m | 2021 | Publicly reported |
| Kate MossDual-signed artist's proof | £179,200 | June 2026 | Publicly reported |
| Gangsta RatDark grey variant | £116,100 | June 2026 | Publicly reported |
How the market got here
Prices ran hard into 2021 and reset sharply afterwards. What replaced the peak is more selective rather than simply lower: strong images, small editions, signed examples and clean condition still find committed buyers, while common unsigned images in average condition move slowly. Which group a print falls into matters far more than the month it is offered.
What we do with it
We are specialists in Pest Control documentation, Banksy valuations and shipping through the artist's preferred courier, and we have negotiated original and print sales at the major houses with significant reductions in seller's fees. If you own a work and want to know what it is and what it would do at auction, that is a conversation worth having before you approach anyone.
A valuation is only useful if it leads somewhere. We compare what the work is likely to achieve across the international and regional salerooms, weigh sale dates and settlement periods against each other, and negotiate the seller's terms rather than accept a published rate card. All paperwork and remittance stays in your name. Selling a Banksy compares the three routes to market, and what selling at auction actually costs sets out every fee that comes off the hammer price.
Common questions
Does a Banksy need Pest Control paperwork to sell?
Not always, but it changes your options. Pest Control is the artist's own authentication body, and its certificate is what the major auction houses expect to see. Without it a work can still be sold, though the route and the likely result are different — worth establishing before you approach a saleroom.
What is the difference between a signed and an unsigned Banksy print?
They are effectively two separate markets for the same image, catalogued and valued separately, with different buyers. Establishing which you hold is the first step in any valuation.
How do I get a Banksy valued?
Images of the work — including the signature area and the reverse — along with any paperwork that came with it are enough to begin. There is no charge, and a valuation carries no obligation to proceed.
What does it cost to sell a Banksy at auction?
Seller's commission, insurance, cataloguing and — if the work does not sell — an unsold fee. We set out how each of those works on our selling at auction page, and we negotiate them on your behalf rather than accepting a published rate card.
Much of what is written here holds for the rest of the field — selling street art sets out what changes when the artist has no Pest Control to write to, which is most of them.
Figures on this page are third-party reported and are included for context. They are not a valuation of any individual work, and averages in particular describe a market rather than a print. Results described as reported are reported rather than independently confirmed. Whitebank Fine Art is an art advisory and gallery, not an auction house, and is not affiliated with Banksy, Pest Control, Pictures on Walls or any auction house. Nothing here is investment advice.
An average is not your print. Send images and any paperwork to info@whitebankfineart.co.uk, or start below, and we will look at the one you actually have.