NOLA (Green Rain)

Name: BANKSY
Brand: NOLA (Green Rain)
Price: 65000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 81,900

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GBP 70,000 - GBP 100,000

Closed: 1 Apr 2025

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BANKSY

NOLA (Green Rain)

Price Realised GBP 81,900

Closed: 1 Apr 2025

Price Realised GBP 81,900

Closed: 1 Apr 2025

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BANKSY
NOLA (Green Rain)
screenprint in colours, 2008, on wove paper, signed and numbered 13/31 in pencil, published by Pictures on Walls, London, with the artist's blindstamp

This lot is offered with the new Certificate of Authenticity from Pest Control.
Image 638 x 439 mm.
Sheet 754 x 549 mm.

Please note the new Certificate of Authenticity for this lot is now in-hand.

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Lot Essay

(also sometimes referred to as 'Yellow Rain') employs a fluorescent greenish-yellow pigment and is one of the most desirable variations of this iconic motif, having been published in a small edition size of 31. The other published editions of NOLA were: White Rain (edition of 289); Grey Rain (edition of 63) and Orange Rain (edition of 32). There were also a total of 66 Artist's Proofs issued in a variety of transitional colours, including sold at Christie's London in July 2021.

The title 'NOLA' is an abbreviation for New Orleans, Louisiana (LA), the city where Banksy's first version of this subject appeared as a stenciled graffiti work in 2008. The image of a girl being drenched by rain that is falling from inside of her umbrella is in reference to the devastating events of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which had been amplified by failure of the flood defences that had been designed to protect the citizens from such a disaster.