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The top lot at Julien's Street and Contemporary Art Auction
is Banksy's 2002 work "Happy Choppers," an original aerosol
stencil of military helicopters decked out with a pink bow
created in central London, that is expected to sell for about
$150,000.
The artist's "Boy Painting Pink Heart," featuring a boy painting
a heart on the wall of a London house in 2005, is expected to
fetch up to $120,000.
Other Banksy works include "Nola," a 2009 Hurricane Katrina
image of a girl holding an umbrella with rain falling inside of
it, and "Bomb Love" and "Crazy Horse Car Door" from an
installation he created during his spell in New York in 2013.
The highest price for a work of art by Banksy was struck in 2008
when "Keep It Spotless" was sold for $1.8 million at Sotheby's
in New York.
The auction will take place at Julien's Auctions in West
Hollywood on April 29, and will also include works by Shepard
Fairey, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol.
(Corrects name of artwork to "Boy Painting Pink Heart" from "I
Heart Boy" in paragraph 3.)
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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