Created in 2005, Kate Moss is an exceptionally rare screenprint on canvas through which Banksy engages directly with the history of Pop Art and the visual construction of celebrity. The work places the British model within the compositional framework of Andy Warhol’s celebrated portraits of Marilyn Monroe, combining Moss’s features with Monroe’s distinctive coiffure, beauty spot and areas of heightened colour. In doing so, Banksy replaces one era’s defining celebrity with an equally recognisable figure from contemporary fashion and popular culture. The closely cropped face fills the square canvas, confronting the viewer with an image that is both immediately familiar and visibly manufactured. Areas of photographic greyscale are overlaid with flat passages of colour, while the deliberate separation between tonal detail and coloured screenprint layers recalls Warhol’s commercial printing methods. Moss’s individual identity is consequently transformed into a reproducible surface: an image designed to circulate, attract attention and acquire cultural value through repetition. Warhol based his portraits of Monroe upon a publicity photograph produced for the 1953 film Niagara. Created following the actress’s death in 1962, his paintings and subsequent 1967 print portfolio examined the relationship between glamour, tragedy and the mass reproduction of celebrity imagery. Banksy reworks this established iconography for the media environment of the early twenty-first century, when fashion photography, magazines and advertising had made Moss’s face one of the most widely disseminated images of her generation. The canvas edition was produced in an edition of only five and belongs to Banksy’s limited experimentation with screenprinting directly onto canvas. The composition was associated with the period of his landmark 2005 exhibition Crude Oils: A Gallery of Re-Mixed Masterpieces, Vandalism and Vermin, in which he altered and reinterpreted familiar works from Western art history. Combining the physical presence of a painting with the reproductive language of printmaking, Kate Moss operates simultaneously as an homage to Warhol and a critique of the mechanisms through which individuals are converted into consumable cultural icons. A detailed condition report is available upon request.