TOP TEN PRICES PAID FOR BANKSY ART
1 KEEP IT SPOTLESS (£1.3million)
A Los Angeles hotel maid pulling up a defaced original Damien Hirst painting so as to sweep underneath it (left).
2 SUBMERGED PHONE BOOTH (£722,500)
An old red phone box emerging from the ground and surrounded by pieces of pavement stone.
3 SIMPLE INTELLIGENCE TESTING (£636,500)
Canvas pictures of a chimp cracking safes to find bananas and escaping a testing laboratory (left).
4 HAPPY SHOPPER (£506,500)
Sculpture of a shopper laden with bags and studying a price tag.
5 GIRL WITH RED BALLOON (£500,000)
This piece of artwork had been on a wall in Shoreditch, East London, for a decade and chain-sawed off by the wall’s owner and sold (below right).
6 REMBRANDT (£398,500)
Reinterpretation of a Rembrandt self-portrait with a pair of stick-on googly eyes.
7 THINK TANK (£397,000)
Original artwork for the 2003 Blur album Think Tank.
8 VANDALISED PHONE BOX (£361,900)
A phone box with a pickaxe in its side, seeping blood (right).
9 KISSING COPPERS (£350,000)
Created in 2004 on the side of the Prince Albert pub in Brighton. Vandalised and removed. Sold in 2014.
10 THE RUDE LORD RD (£320,900)
A portrait of the English painter Thomas Beach – with a rude hand gesture (left).