Weston Super Mare

Medium: Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Year: 2003
Sheet: 35×100 cm (13 3/4 x 39 inches)
Edition: 750 (150 signed)
Artist’s Proofs:
Lime Green: 18 signed AP

Weston Super Mare features a senior citizen sitting on a bench, his hands folded across his lap, his cane resting next to him, blissfully unaware of the danger that is approaching him in the form of a circular saw cutting its way through the promenade. The artwork suggests that we are all constantly accompanied by the shadow of death at every turn. Obviously, it also offers a healthy reminder to make the most of every moment, to stop and take in the view once in a while.

Weston Super Mare, in Somerset, is where Banksy created Dismaland, a “family theme park unsuitable for children”.  The artist presented new works and funded the construction of the exhibition himself. The show featured 58 artists of the 60 Banksy originally invited to participate. 4,000 tickets were available for purchase per day, priced at £3 each.

Banksy’s best works always have at their heart his distinctive, often brutal sense of humor. So much of his early work focuses on that peculiarly British characteristic that celebrates the mundane and the ordinary, here memorializing a town synonymous with drabness and faded glamour and building the composition on the image of a lonely figure sitting on a bench.

Bonhams London: 22 October 2020
Estimated: GBP 400,000 – 600,000
GBP 747,062 / USD 976,803

Bonhams : Banksy (British, b. 1975) Weston Super Mare 1999

Weston Super Mare (Lime Green AP)

Weston Super Mare can therefore be seen as a work of searing honesty and self-revelation; a very personal painting that gives a clear, if very rare, insight into the artist’s background and personality. Executed in 1999, this work is one of the earliest and most significant canvases by the artist to come to auction.

WSM (unsigned)

Weston Super Mare (unsigned) sold 6 times at auction in 2024 at an average price of GBP 10,124 (USD 12,825). It sold for its highest price of GBP 13,460 for 2024 at SBI Art Auction in Tokyo on 27 January 2024.

Weston Super Mare (unsigned) sold 6 times in 2023, for a total turnover of GBP 73,340 (USD 90,200), at an average price of GBP 14,668 (USD 18,040). Its highest price of GBP 19,050 (USD 23,714) for 2023 was achieved at Sotheby’s online on 20 April 2023.

Weston Super Mare (unsigned) sold 7 times in 2022 at an average price of GBP 17,472 (USD 21,859). It sold at Roseberys in London on 8 March 2022 for GBP 22,780 (USD 30,980), its highest price for 2022.

Weston Super Mare (unsigned) sold 10 times in 2021 at an average price of GBP 26,264 (USD 36,614). It sold at Forum Auctions in London on 5 March 2021 for GBP 37,520 (USD 52,155), its highest price for 2021.

2025 Auction Results

Tate Ward Auctions: 19 March 2025
Estimated: GBP 7,000 – 9,000
GBP 9,375 / USD 12,085

BANKSY (British 1974-)
‘Weston Super Mare’ (unsigned), 2003
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Numbered from an edition of 750 in pencil

2024 Auction Results

Christie’s online: 26 March 2024
Estimated: GBP 8,000 – 12,000
GBP 7,560 / USD 9,588

BANKSY
Weston Super Mare (unsigned), 2003
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Numbered 483/750 in pencil (only the first 150 were signed)

SBI Art Auction: 27 January 2024
Estimated: JPY 1,000,000 – 1,500,000
JPY 2,530,000 / USD 17,070

BANKSY
Weston Super Mare (unsigned), 2003
Screenprint
Numbered on the lower right
From the edition of 750

Phillips London: 17 January 2024
Estimated: GBP 8,000 – 12,000
GBP 12,065 / USD 15,301

2023 Auction Results

Weston Super Mare (unsigned) sold 5 times in 2023, for a total turnover of GBP 73,340 (USD 90,200), at an average price of GBP 14,668 (USD 18,040). Its highest price of GBP 19,050 (USD 23,714) for 2023 was achieved at Sotheby’s online on 20 April 2023.

Sotheby’s online: 20 April 2023
Estimated: GBP 8,000 – 12,000
GBP 19,050 / USD 23,714

BANKSY (b. 1974)
Weston Super Mare (unsigned), 2023
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Numbered 453/750

Christie’s online: 14 March 2023
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 12,600 / USD 15,498

BANKSY
Weston Super Mare (unsigned), 2003
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Numbered 235/750 in pencil (only the first 150 were signed)

Phillips London: 17 January 2023
Estimated: GBP 8,000 – 12,000
GBP 15,120 / USD 18,598

2022 Auction Results

Weston Super Mare (unsigned) sold 7 times in 2022 at an average price of GBP 17,472 (USD 21,859). It sold at Roseberys in London on 8 March 2022 for GBP 22,780 (USD 30,980), its highest price for 2022.

BANKSY
Weston Super Mare (unsigned), 2003
Screenprint in colors on wove paper

Numbered 373/750 in pencil lower right

WSM (signed)

Weston Super Mare (signed) has not sold at auction in 2024.

Weston Super Mare (signed) has sold twice at auction in 2023, at Tate Ward Auctions on 29 March 2023 for GBP 21,600 (USD 26,591), and at Forum Auctions on 22 February 2023 for GBP 25,460 (USD 31,316).

Weston Super Mare (signed) sold once at auction in 2022, at Christie’s online on 15 March 2022 for GBP 30,240 (USD 39,540).

Weston Super Mare (signed) sold 6 times in 2021 at an average price of GBP 44,983 (USD 62,236). It sold at Forum Auctions in London on 27 January 2021 for GBP 76,380 (USD 104,640), its all-time record price, it was an aside print with a unique colorway.

Forum Auctions: 5 March 2025
Estimated: GBP 12,000 – 15,000
GBP 10,000 (Hammer)
GBP 13,120 / USD 16,910

BANKSY (b.1974)
Weston Super Mare (signed), 2003
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed and dated in black ink
Numbered from the edition of 750 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp

2023 Auction Results

Tate Ward: 29 March 2023
Estimated: GBP 15,000 – 25,000
GBP 21,600 / USD 26,591

BANKSY (British 1974-)
Weston Super Mare (signed), 2003
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed and dated in black ink, numbered from an edition of 750 in pencil

Forum Auctions: 22 February 2023
Estimated: GBP 20,000 – 30,000
GBP 25,460 / USD 31,316

BANKSY (b.1974)
Weston Super Mare (Signed), 2023
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in black ink, inscribed ‘DN’ and numbered from the edition of 750 in pencil

2022 Auction Results

Weston Super Mare (signed) sold once at auction in 2022, at Christie’s online on 15 March 2022 for GBP 30,240 (USD 39,540).

Christie’s online: 15 March 2022
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 30,240 / USD 39,540

BANKSY
Weston Super Mare (signed), 2003
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed and dated in black ink
Numbered 109/750 in pencil (only the first 150 were signed)

Weston Super Mare (signed) sold 6 times in 2021 at an average price of GBP 44,983 (USD 62,236). It sold at Forum Auctions in London on 27 January 2021 for GBP 76,380 (USD 104,640), its all-time record price, it was an aside print with a unique colorway.