Stash valuation
New York subway writer turned streetwear founder, and one of the links between graffiti and the sneaker.
Stash is Josh Franklin, a New York graffiti writer who came up in the subway era of the 1980s alongside the generation that included Futura and Haze, and who went on to become one of the figures who carried graffiti into streetwear and product design. The collaborations — with Nike in particular — are a substantial part of why the name is known outside the art world, and the studio paintings carry the same vocabulary of spray, arrows and tags in a more controlled register.
Unique canvases lead, with editions, works on paper and a considerable body of collaborative product below them. The product is the part that most often arrives described as art, and the distinction matters commercially: a signed canvas and a limited sneaker are different markets with different buyers. Provenance from the original release or gallery is the thing to locate, particularly for work from the 1990s and 2000s when documentation was inconsistent.
What a work by Stash is worth
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