Graffiti Drawings By Banksy

On 27 April 2007 a new record high for the sale Banksy's work was set with the auction the work Space Girl & Bird fetching £288,000 (US$576,000) around 20 times the estimate at Bonhams London. On 21 May 2007 Banksy gained the award for Art's Greatest living Briton. Banksy, as expected, did not turn up to collect his award and continued with his notoriously anonymous status. On 4 June 2007, it was reported that Banksy's The Drinker had been stolen. In October 2007, most his works fered for sale at Bonhams auction house in London sold for more than twice their reserve price.
Banksy has published a "manifesto" on his website. The text the manifesto is credited as the diary entry one Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin, DSO, which is exhibited in the Imperial War Museum. It describes how a shipment lipstick to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after its liberation at the end World War II helped the internees regain their humanity. However, as 18 January 2008, Banksy's Manifesto has been substituted with Graffiti Heroes #03 that describes Peter Chappell's graffiti quest the 1970s that worked to free George Davis his imprisonment. By 12 August 2009 he was relying on Emo Phillips' "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness." A small number Banksy's works can be seen in the movie Children Men, including a stenciled image two policemen kissing and another stencil a child looking down a shop.
Banksy, who deals mostly with Lazarides Gallery in London, claims that the exhibition at Vanina Holasek Gallery in New York (his first major exhibition in that city) is unauthorised. The exhibition featured 62 his paintings and prints.