
His American gallery debut took place at Subliminal Projects Gallery in Los Angeles in 2008.

He participated in the Cans Festival in 2008, which featured outdoor street stencil painting in Waterloo, London by many of street art's biggest names. exhibition in London at the Leonard Street Gallery. In October 2006, Blek le Rat had his first solo U.K. In 2006 he began his series of images representing the homeless, which depict them standing, sitting, or lying on sidewalks, in attempts to bring attention to what he regards as a global problem. From that point on, he has worked exclusively with pre-stenciled posters, citing the speedier application of the medium to walls, as well as lessened punishment should he be caught in the act. His oldest preserved street art graffito is a 1991 replica of Caravaggio's Madonna di Loreta, which was rediscovered behind posters on a house wall in Leipzig, Germany, in 2012.īlek was arrested in 1991 while he was stencilling a replica of Caravaggio's Madonna and Child. In 1983 Blek began to paint life-size stencils, which alongside his rats, have become his trademark and have influenced generations of street artists around the world.īlek worked consistently through the 1990s and 2000s. His name originates from the comic book Blek le Roc, using "rat" as an anagram for "art".

Silver has shown an even slower increase, on average 1.20% between 20 and an overall decline of 1.42% within the timeframe of 2010-2020.Blek began his artwork in 1981, painting stencils of rats on the walls of Paris streets. A classic case of low-risk low-return investment, the gold market promises a much slower growth than the stunning rate at which Banksy’s rats jumped to ten times their 2008 prices by 2020. Investment returns on gold have picked up between 20 by 8.26%, but looking at the bigger picture, growth between 20 has progressed at a much slower rate, 2.50%, with some fluctuations between 20. The prices of Banksy’s works, on the other hand has shown a steady increase and will progress to do so due to the artist’s regular output and rapidly growing popularity on the art market.

Between 20 it dropped by 6.24% and is continuously fluctuating, influenced by various unpredictable geopolitical factors. Oil might be one of the most conventional modes of investment, however, figures by S&P GSCI between 2010 to 2020 show the average annual return on crude oil dropping by 10.48%.
