Graffiti Drawings By Banksy

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.
In April 2007, Transport for London painted over Banksy's iconic image a scene from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, with Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta clutching bananas instead guns. Although the image was very popular, Transport for London claimed that the "graffiti" created "a general atmosphere neglect and social decay which in turn encourages crime" and their staff are "pressional cleaners not pressional art critics". Banksy tagged the same site again (pictured at right). This time the actors were portrayed as holding real guns instead bananas, but they were adorned with banana costumes. Banksy made a tribute art piece over this second Pulp Fiction piece. The tribute was for 19-year-old British graffiti artist Ozone who, along with fellow artist Wants, was hit by an underground train in Barking, East London on 12 January 2007. The piece was an angel wearing a bullet-pro vest holding a skull. He also wrote a note on his website saying:
The last time I hit this spot I painted a crap picture two men in banana costumes waving hand guns. A few weeks later a writer called Ozone completely dogged it and then wrote 'If it's better next time I'll leave it' in the bottom corner. When we lost Ozone we lost a fearless graffiti writer and as it turns out a pretty perceptive art critic. Ozone – rest in peace.