Banksy's Kate Moss prints net record price

The graffiti artist Banksy has set a new auction record for his work after a bidding frenzy at Sotheby’s in London.



A series of Kate Moss pictures, in which the supermodel is depicted in the style of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe prints, fetched £50,400, while his stencil of the Mona Lisa, sprayed green and with paint dripping from her eyes, sold for £57,600. Both were more than double his previous record price of £21,000.

The Moss pictures, which were bought by a private collector, had been estimated to fetch between £10,000 and £15,000.