He confirmed it went to an unidentified New Zealand buyer. International Art Centre director Richard Thomson said inquiries about Have A Nice Day had come from around the world. The sale price was the most ever paid for a print of Have A Nice Day, of which there was a limited issue of authentic copies. To the auction house's delight, a bout of spirited bidding saw the buyer, an unidentified New Zealander, shell out $126,000 for the military-themed work which was created nearly 20 years ago. The work, Have A Nice Day, was expected to fetch $60,000 at a sale of collectable art at the International Art Centre, in Parnell. The artist's work has sold for more than $1 million at auction and fans had covered some of his Paris works with Plexiglass to protect them.īut one of a migrant girl was defaced with blue spray paint shortly after news of its discovery spread on social media.World record price paid for Banksy at IAC auctionĪ Banksy artwork set a world record earlier this month at International Art Centre, fetching a whopping $126,000 - twice what is was predicted to reach. He took on the rat as his avatar - a symbol of the vilified and downtrodden - in homage to the Paris street artist Blek le Rat, who started out in 1968 when a general strike by students and workers brought France to a halt.
The most dramatic was a pastiche of Jacques-Louis David's "Napoleon Crossing the Alps", with Bonaparte wrapped in a red niqab, which appeared on a wall in an ethnically-mixed district of northern Paris.īanksy had earlier hailed the French capital as "the birthplace of modern stencil art". The two other suspects arrested on Tuesday were later released.īanksy appeared to authenticate eight of the Paris works on his Instagram account shortly after his trip. It featured a businessman in a suit offering a dog a bone having sawed the animal's leg off.Ī source close to the investigation told AFP that they were trying to establish if the recovered artworks were original Banksys or copies. Another anti-capitalist mural attributed to the secretive street art star disappeared shortly after Banksy's whirlwind trip, which the highly political artist said was to mark the 50th anniversary of the Paris student uprising of 1968.
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