Doodle Invades ,” which according to the art-market website the Value generated prices between $6,400 and $25,640 per piece. In December 2018, Sotheby’s Hong Kong offered 52 lots in an exhibition called “ Mr. In March 2021, Artnet News examined Cox’s career trajectory, which by then had resulted in nearly $4.7 million in sales across three continents in a little more than nine months. His career has skyrocketed of late, particularly at auction. His style, which is reminiscent of fellow graffiti artist Keith Haring, is decidedly more playful than political, however.Īnd the artist’s attention to his craft has clearly payed off. Mr Doodle’s method has proven incredibly successful, and even led to collaborations with major brands like MTV Europe (for which he designed an award), Puma, and Wembley Park shopping center. Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images. īritish artist Sam Cox, aka Mr Doodle, with his wife Alena, reveals the Doodle House, a 12-room mansion at Tenterden, in Kent, which has been covered, inside and out, in the artist’s trademark hand-drawn doodles. The ambitious endeavor used 900 liters of white paint, 401 cans of black spray paint for the exterior, 286 bottles of black paint for the inside walls, and 2,296 pen nibs, the artist told media. The makeover of the £1.35 million ($1.54 million) mansion, located in Tenterden, near Kent, in England, took the artist two years to complete. “They told me whatever you do, please don’t doodle,” he said. He also revealed in an interview with the Evening Standard, that the original owners of the house had initially pleaded with him to not cover it in his signature cartoon-like graffiti.
Doodle, whose real name is Sam Cox, announced that he had doodled his home in a now-viral Twitter post that included a 2-minute stop-motion video of the painting process.
This time, with the completion of his largest project to date: a 12-room mansion, which he bought in 2020, and has covered entirely in his own black-and-white squiggles, embellishing even the toilet and the oven.
Doodle, who has skyrocketed to viral internet fame and auction stardom over the past two years, has done it again.
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