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# Over 50 Works by Graffiti and Street Art Greats Being Auctioned on artnet
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/over-50-works-by-graffiti-and-street-art-greats-being-auctioned-on-artnet/
- Published: 2013-01-30T00:30:13.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:35:46.000Z
- Description: Over 50 works by leading street and graffiti artists are included in artnet Auctions [http://nectr.me/c0]'s Tag Sale: Graffiti and Street Art [http://nectr.me/p0], which is live online through February 5, 2013.[http://awe.sm/bD5mM]
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- Tags: Announcement, Artnet, Graffiti, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

![Futura 2000 Blueboy, 2013 Aerosol on canvas 54 x 54 in. Est. $40,000-$50,000](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/01/futura_oas-640.jpg)

Futura 2000, “Blueboy” (2013), aerosol on canvas, 54 x 54 in., Est. $40,000-$50,000

Over 50 works by leading street and graffiti artists are included in [***artnet* *Auctions***](http://nectr.me/c0?ref=hyperallergic.com)‘s [***Tag Sale: Graffiti and Street Art***](http://nectr.me/p0?ref=hyperallergic.com), which is live online through February 5, 2013.

Featuring works by Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, JR, Chris Johanson, Stephen Powers, and others, the art includes works from the 1980s until today, and provides a good overview of much of the art being made by some of the best-known talents in the field. Estimates for the work ranges from US$1,500 to 120,000.

Among the unique works featured in the sale is “Blueboy” (2013), a major new painting by legendary graffiti artist Futura 2000\. “Blueboy” belongs to the *Wrinkle Finish* series that debuted in *Future Shock*, Futura’s large one-man exhibition in New York last year.

![Banksy, "Barely Legal / LA Set" (Portfolio of 6 Prints) (2006), screenprint on Arches paper, 22 x 29.9 in., Est. US$90,000-120,000](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/01/barely_legal_la_set-640.jpg)

Banksy, “Barely Legal / LA Set” (Portfolio of 6 Prints) (2006), screenprint on Arches paper, 22 x 29.9 in., Est. US$90,000-120,000

Another highlight of [*Tag Sale*](http://nectr.me/p0?ref=hyperallergic.com)is a selection of signed and authenticated works by world-renowned street artist Banksy, including “Applause”(2006), “Toxic Mary”(2003), and “Barely Legal/LA Set”(2006), the remarkable six-print portfolio.

Also featured in the sale is a diverse group of paintings by Richard Hambleton, including “Shadowman”(1986), estimated at US$8,000 to 10,000, which dates from the heyday of 1980s New York graffiti scene. This work belongs to the iconic *Shadowman* series, for which Hambleton is best known. The black-splattered figures in this series adorned street corners and walls from Berlin to New York in the 1980s.

[***Tag Sale: Graffiti and Street Art***](http://nectr.me/p0?ref=hyperallergic.com) is live on *artnet Auctions* through February 5, 2013.

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