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Graffiti Drawings By Banksy
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Banksy held an exhibition called Barely Legal, billed as a "three day vandalised warehouse extravaganza" in Los Angeles, on the weekend 16 September. The exhibition featured a live "elephant in a room", painted in a pink and gold floral wallpaper pattern.
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.
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