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Graffiti drawings by Banksy
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Graffiti Drawings By Banksy

The Banksy effect (2006–2007)
After Christina Aguilera bought an original Queen Victoria as a lesbian and two prints for £25,000, on 19 October 2006 a set Kate Moss paintings sold in Sotheby's London for £50,400, setting an auction record for Banksy's work. The six silk-screen prints, featuring the model painted in the style Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pictures, sold for five times their estimated value. His stencil a green Mona Lisa with real paint dripping from her eyes sold for £57,600 at the same auction. In December, journalist Max Foster coined the phrase, "the Banksy effect", to illustrate how interest in other street artists was growing on the back Banksy's success.
On 21 February 2007, Sotheby's auction house in London auctioned three works, reaching the highest ever price for a Banksy work at auction: over £102,000 for his Bombing Middle England. Two his other graffiti works, Balloon Girl and Bomb Hugger, sold for £37,200 and £31,200 respectively, which were well above their estimated prices. The following day's auction saw a further three Banksy works reach soaring prices: Ballerina With Action Man Parts reached £96,000; Glory sold for £72,000; Untitled (2004) sold for £33,600; all significantly above estimated values. To coincide with the second day auctions, Banksy updated his website with a new image an auction house scene showing people bidding on a picture that said, "I Can't Believe You Morons Actually Buy This Shit." In February 2007, the owners a house with a Banksy mural on the side in Bristol decided to sell the house through Red Propeller art gallery after fers fell through because the prospective buyers wanted to remove the mural. It is listed as a mural that comes with a house attached.

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