The Mail on Sunday

TOP TEN PRICES PAID FOR BANKSY ART

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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).

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