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The edition
Artist
Banksy
Title
Gangsta Rat
Year
2004
Publisher
Pictures on Walls
Medium
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Edition size
Signed (red) edition of 150; unsigned edition of 350; further colorway editions in blue, orange and grey (61 each), pink (46), green (20) and mint green (8); 61 artist's proofs across colors.
Totals
150 signed · 350 unsigned
Sheet
sheet approx. 19 3/4 × 13 3/4 in
Paper
wove paper
Signature
The signed red edition is signed and numbered in pencil with the POW blindstamp. Unsigned sheets are numbered in pencil only. Each colorway and the APs are signed and numbered separately from the main runs.
Printer
Pictures on Walls
Catalogue
Gangsta Rat — Pest Control
About
A rat in a baseball cap and chain, boombox at its feet, under the tag "iPOW," a dig at the publisher's own initials dressed up as consumer electronics branding. The wall version appeared in Farringdon the same year. Banksy has been open about the debt to Blek le Rat, who was stenciling rats in Paris in the early 1980s. The colorway structure is the most complex of any Banksy edition; identify precisely which one you are looking at.
