Mr Brainwash – Mona Keep Smiling

Mona Keep Smiling, 2019

• Artist: Mr Brainwash (Thierry Guetta, French, born 1966)
• Medium: Colour screenprint
• Dimensions: 69 × 50.5 cm
• Edition: Edition of 50
• Signature: Signed and editioned on margin — "Mr Brainwash"
• Certificate: Certificate of authenticity
• Provenance: The Great Dane Collection, USA; Darryn Lyons Collection, Geelong 

Mona Keep Smiling is a colour screenprint executed in 2019 by Mr Brainwash — the French-born Los Angeles-based artist whose meteoric rise to international prominence, documented in Banksy's Oscar-nominated film Exit Through the Gift Shop, made him one of the most widely discussed and commercially active figures in contemporary street art — signed and editioned on the margin from the edition of 50, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, and coming from two distinguished private collections: The Great Dane Collection, USA, and the Darryn Lyons Collection, Geelong.

Mr Brainwash — born Thierry Guetta in Paris in 1966 — has built a practice rooted in the appropriation and exuberant recontextualization of the most iconic images in art history and popular culture, combining the visual languages of Pop Art, street art, and mass media into compositions of immediate chromatic impact and popular appeal. His work engages with the icons of Western visual culture — from Leonardo and Warhol to Chaplin and Einstein — with a characteristic energy, humor, and irreverence that has attracted a wide and devoted international collector base.

If you are drawn to Mr Brainwash's pop cultural wit and chromatic energy, you may also be interested in Tomato Pop Blue (2023), a bold and vibrant recent work extending his engagement with Pop Art iconography, or Handle With Care (2003), an early and historically significant work from the very beginnings of his career — both available now at Lynart Gallery.

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FAQ

Is this an original work by Mr Brainwash?
Yes — an authentic colour screenprint, signed and editioned on the margin from the edition of 50, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, from The Great Dane Collection and the Darryn Lyons Collection.

What is the edition size?
Edition of 50 — signed and editioned on the margin by the artist.

What is the provenance?
The Great Dane Collection, USA (accompanied by a certificate of authenticity) → Darryn Lyons Collection, Geelong — a fully documented two-collection provenance of exceptional clarity.

What is the significance of the Mona Lisa subject?
Mona Keep Smiling places Mr Brainwash's intervention within a long tradition of artistic engagement with Leonardo's Mona Lisa as a vehicle for cultural commentary — from Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q. to Warhol's colored screenprints — simultaneously affirmative and subversive in its pop cultural overlay.

What are the dimensions?
69 × 50.5 cm

What is the condition?
Very good condition. Full condition report available upon request.

Is this artwork a good investment?
Mr Brainwash is one of the most commercially active and widely collected figures in the contemporary street art market. Signed editions of 50 with distinguished private collection provenance and certificate of authenticity represent a compelling acquisition for serious collectors.

Is worldwide shipping available?
Yes — secure worldwide shipping from France with professional packaging, tracking, and insurance.

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