Silkscreen lithograph. Featuring a subverted composition of the Iwo Jima photograph, with soldiers holding up the McDonald sign instead of the American flag, done in black and contrasted red colors placed on heavy natural colored paper. Signed Banksy on the lower right corner. Inscribed on the lower right corner, 5/300. Stamped with gallery seal with notation 794 in pencil on verso. 21 x 29 cm (8.3 x 11.4 inches).

Whether plastering cities with his trademark parachuting rat, painting imagined openings in the West Bank barrier in Israel, or stenciling “We’re bored of fish” above a penguins’ zoo enclosure, Banksy creates street art with an irreverent wit and an international reputation that precedes his anonymous identity.  Banksy has gained his notoriety through a range of urban interventions, from modifying street signs and printing his own currency to illegally hanging his own works in institutions such as the Louvre and the Museum of Modern Art. PROVENANCE: Private estate (Toronto, ON)

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