Grannies (2006)

Artist: Banksy (British, born 1974)
Title: Grannies
Year: 2006
Medium: Screenprint in colours on vélin d'Arches
Sheet Size: 47.5 × 68 cm
Signature: Signed and dated in pencil
Edition: Edition of 500
Publisher: Pictures on Walls (P.O.W.), London — blindstamp
Type of work: Limited edition screenprint
Certificate: Accompanied by a newly issued Pest Control Office COA

Description

Grannies (2006) is one of Banksy's most beloved and enduringly funny prints — a work of perfect comic construction and genuine social wit. Two elderly women sit in matching armchairs on either side of a standard lamp, knitting with the serene concentration of a Sunday afternoon. The blankets growing in their laps read "PUNKS NOT DEAD" and "THUG FOR LIFE." The pink ground — domestic, cheerful, almost saccharine — makes the punchline land with maximum force.

The image operates on multiple levels simultaneously, as the best Banksy always does. On the surface it is a joke — the incongruity of subcultural slogans in the hands of grandmothers — but underneath it is something more generous and more interesting: a suggestion that the women knitting these blankets may have lived those slogans, that rebellion does not expire, that the punk and the thug and the grandmother are not mutually exclusive categories. The lamp, the side table, the framed photograph — the whole apparatus of domestic respectability — becomes not a contrast to the slogans but their context, the life that continued after the leather jacket was hung up. Or perhaps never was.

Produced as a screenprint in colours on vélin d'Arches — one of the finest papers used in fine art printmaking, associated with the highest standards of French print production — and published by Pictures on Walls (POW), Banksy's own London-based publishing imprint, in an edition of 500. The POW blindstamp is present. Grannies has appeared regularly at the major auction houses and consistently achieves strong results — it is among the most recognisable and sought-after images in Banksy's print catalogue.

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FAQ 

Is this an original Banksy print? Yes — an original screenprint in colours on vélin d'Arches, published by Pictures on Walls (POW) with their blindstamp, from an edition of 500.

What is Pictures on Walls? Pictures on Walls (POW) is Banksy's own London-based publishing imprint — the official publisher of his limited edition prints. Works bearing the POW blindstamp carry the full authority of Banksy's own publishing programme.

What is the edition size? 500 impressions.

What is vélin d'Arches? A premium French fine art paper produced by the Arches mill — one of the most respected papers in fine art printmaking, prized for its weight, surface quality, and archival stability.

Is the work signed? Banksy works are characteristically unsigned — the POW blindstamp serves as the official authentication mark for this edition.

Is the work framed? Please contact us for framing options.

Do you ship internationally? Yes — worldwide, with museum-grade flat packaging, full insurance, and shipment tracking.