Banksy Toxic Mary – Limited Edition Screen Print

Our Banksy prints are produced using the exact methods as Banksy’s early works. Each piece masterfully silk screen printed by hand to the correct colour specification and dimensions, onto the original 300gsm untreated cartridge paper used by Pictures on Walls.

Details:

Artist: Banksy
Title: Toxic Mary
Medium: Screen print on 300gsm untreated cartridge paper
Format: Limited edition replica
Year of original: 2003
Size: H 70cm x W 50cm
Framing details: Not framed
Edition size: 500
Signed: No
Condition: New
Provenance: banksyprints.online COA

The print will be despatched rolled in an oversized strong art postal tube with acid-free tissue and heavy kraft paper via courier, insurance to full value.

International collectors welcome.

Why is Toxic Mary so Iconic?

Toxic Mary’s first appearance was as a painting at Banksy’s first exhibition ‘Turf War’ in 2003, staged in a warehouse on Kingsland Road in London’s East End.  Toxic Mary is a screen print completed in Banksy’s characteristic stencilled style, depicting a woman cloaked in drapery feeding her infant son the painting draws heavy inspiration from Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and Child.  Toxic Mary is a controversial and bold piece of artwork that, at times has been cited as blasphemous. However, this representation of the Madonna and Child breaks from conformity and tradition by showing the Virgin Mary feeding her child with a bottle marked with the ancient symbol for poison – the skull and crossbones.

Banksy breaks from his usual style of clean lines and instead adds what looks like dripping paint which runs past the frame of the image giving a prominent trompe l’oeil effect.  In 2004 Banksy used this effect again with the work Christ with Shopping Bags which, once again uses religious iconography to denunciate mass consumerism and capitalism, highlighting the perversion of Christian values, with particular aim taken at the celebration of Christmas.

The almost monochrome colour scheme of the main painting is brought into relief by the yellow of the toxic bottle along with the drips falling out of the frame shows a scene that melts before the views eyes.  This is, without doubt, one of Banksy’s darker yet most striking works, where the humour that he usually employs whilst making statements about society and consumerism appear to be absent.