Graffiti Drawings By Banksy

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.
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.