THE MARKET/Banksy Originals 2021 Auction Results

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Banksy Originals 2021 Auction Results

Updated August 2026

Total

USD 146,489,840

#Lots sold

38 Lots

Sell-Through Rate

88%

38 lots sold at auction in 2021 for a total turnover of $146,353,205. This is the highest total ever achieved at auction by Banksy in any calendar year. With 5 lots failing to sell, the sell-through rate is 88%.

The Top 3 Lots generated a total of $63,103,755, representing 43.7% of the total for 2021.

22 lots sold for more than $1 million, generating a total turnover of $136,550,955, representing 94.6% of the total for 2021.

Love Is In the Air (2005), a version on canvas of Banksy’s iconic visual sold at Sotheby’s New-York on 12 May 2021 for $12,903,000. Another version on canvas, Love Is In the Air (2006), this time in an edition of 15, sold at Sotheby’s New-York on 18 November 2021 for $8,077,200. 5 works from the series sold at auction in 2021 for a total of $24,260,070.

Barely Legal, held in Los Angeles in 2006, was the most important show of Banksy in the US, as it substantially increased the artist’s notoriety globally. 4 paintings exhibited at Barely Legal sold at auction in 2021 for a total value of $19,802,180, led by Trolley Hunters, that sold at Sotheby’s, in New-York, on 18 November 2021, for $6,698,400.

Monkeys remain a collector’s favorite, with 7 lots featuring a monkey sold at auction in 2021 for a total of $14,099,405, led by Laugh Now, a work on metal, dated 2006, that was also exhibited at Barely Legal, that sold at Sotheby’s, in London, on 29 June 2021, for GBP 2,435,000 ($3,371,975).

6 Editions sold in 2021 for a total turnover of USD 16,489,475, led by an iteration of Love Is In The Air on canvas, in edition of 15, that sold at Sotheby’s in New-York, on 18 November 2021 for USD 8,077,200.

Furthermore, 7 Street Works sold at auction in 2021, generating a total turnover of USD 2,613,405, led by The Whitehouse Rat, that sold at Hessink’s in the Netherlands, on 26 May 2021 for EUR 593,750 (USD 726,420).

Auction Results

Love Is In The Bin

NEW AUCTION RECORD FOR BANKSY AT AUCTION

Sotheby’s London · 14 October 2021

GBP 18,582,000 / USD 25,457,340

Catalogue entry

BANKSY

Love Is In The Bin

Spray paint and acrylic on canvas mounted on board, framed by the artist

Decommissioned, remote controlled shredding mechanism remains in the frame.

142x78x18 cm (60 x 30.9 x 7 inches)

Sotheby’s London

14 October 2021

Est. GBP 4,000,000 – 6,000,000

Price realized

GBP 18,582,000 / USD 25,457,340

Banksy Originals 2021 Auction Results

Auction Results

Love Is In The Bin

Game Changer, 2020

Sunflowers from Petrol Station, 2005

Love Is In The Air

Love Is In The Air, 2006

Trolley Hunters

Subject to Availability, 2009

Sale Ends Today, 2006

Girl with Balloon (Diptych), 2005

Original Concept for Barely Legal Poster (After Demi Moore), 2006

Laugh Now, 2006

Laugh Now Panel A, 2002

Gas Mask Boy

Girl And Balloon, 2003

Laugh Now But One Day We’ll Be In Charge

Monkey Detonator

Laugh Now But One Day We’ll Be In Charge, 2002

Hummingbird, 2015

Girl with Ice Cream on Palette, 2004

Flower Chucker

Keep It Real, 2000

Laugh Now

Love Is In The Air (LA version)

Lenin in Sight

Bomb Love

Lost Children’s Sign from Glastonbury Festival (Sketch)

Keep It Real, 2002-2003

Love Is In the Air

Gangsta Rat Peace

Riot Cop

Bird with Grenade

People Who Enjoy Waving Flags Don’t Deserve To Have One, 2003

Bad Meaning Good

Heavy Weaponry, 2003-2004

Radar Rat

Bunch of Flowers, 2020

Banksy and Simon Munnery: The Commandments, 2005

Precision Bombing, 2000

Lots Passed

Bad Meaning Good

Lenin on Rollerblades (Who Put the Revolution on Ice?), 2003

Kate Moss, 2005

Tortoise Helmet

Fallen Angel, 2004

Lots Withdrawn

Girl with Ice Cream on Palette

London New York Bristol (Monkey)

Love Is In The Air (with Stars)

Street Works

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