Mostre-me o Monet (Show Me the Monet) - Banksy

 

Mostre-me o Monet (Show Me the Monet) - Banksy

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OST - 2005

The painting features Monet’s signature lilly pond littered with empty shopping carts and a floating traffic cone. It’s part of Banksy’s “Crude Oils” series, which saw the artist “remix” canonical works by artists including Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper, and Andy Warhol, among others. The series was first displayed to the public 15 years ago at an abandoned storefront, and was notable not only for the press attention it garnered for the mysterious street artist, but also for the inclusion of 164 live rats within the gallery space.
Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s European head of contemporary art, said in a statement:
Banksy has taken Monet’s iconic depiction of the Japanese bridge in the Impressionist master’s famous garden at Giverny and transformed it into a modern-day fly-tipping spot. More canal than idyllic lily pond, Banksy litters Monet’s composition with discarded shopping trollies and a fluorescent orange traffic cone. Ever prescient as a voice of protest and social dissent, here Banksy shines a light on society’s disregard for the environment in favour of the wasteful excesses of consumerism. Recent years have seen seminal Banksys come to auction, but this is one of his strongest, and most iconic, to appear yet.