Image: Georgetown Frame Shoppe, Washington
Georgetown Frame Shoppe in Washington is featuring Banksy’s 'Weston Super Mare', a 2003 screenprint in colors from an edition of 750. The gallery’s listing identifies the work as unsigned and notes that it is accompanied by a Pest Control Certificate of Authenticity. The piece is shown as a framed work with an 18 1/2-by-43 1/2-inch frame size and a 13 3/4-by-39 1/4-inch sheet size.
The work appears in one of the gallery’s email promotions for modern and contemporary art, alongside prints and editions by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Alex Katz, Marc Chagall, Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Sultan and Salvador Dalí. Georgetown Frame Shoppe describes the selection as offering first access to new arrivals and exclusive pricing on featured works. The Banksy listing is presented as a current available work rather than part of a broader exhibition.
The gallery’s website places the print in its collections of available works and lists the gallery reference number BNKSYWSM455. It also repeats the work’s basic catalogue information: artist Banksy, title 'Weston Super Mare', medium screenprint in colors, date 2003, edition 455/750, and unsigned signature status. The artwork is priced upon request.
Banksy’s own biography on the gallery site frames the print within the artist’s wider practice of satirical street art and stencil-based imagery. The text describes Banksy as an English-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director whose real identity is unknown, and says his works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls and bridges around the world. It also notes that his practice grew out of the Bristol underground scene and that he settled on his distinctive stencil approach during that period.
The biography supplied by the gallery further links Banksy’s rise to the early 2000s, when he relocated to London and began gaining notoriety. It cites his July 2003 exhibition 'Turf War' as a breakthrough show staged in a former warehouse in Hackney. That presentation is described as featuring a live heifer painted with a portrait of Andy Warhol and a version of Queen Elizabeth II depicted as a chimpanzee.
The same source also references Banksy’s work on the Bethlehem Wall in the West Bank and his later move into canvas, conceptual sculpture and film. The gallery text mentions 'Exit Through the Gift Shop', which debuted at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the UK on 5 March 2010. Within that context, 'Weston Super Mare' is positioned as an early-2000s edition print available through the Washington dealer’s online inventory.
