Loïc Gouzer's auction platform Fair Warning will sell Banksy's *Girl and Balloon on Found Landscape* from the 'Crude Oils' series in an invitation-only live auction at Tiffany & Co.'s Fifth Avenue flagship store on May 20. The work, which carries a $13 to $18 million estimate, modifies a thrifted landscape painting with the artist's signature red heart-shaped balloon. It will be publicly viewable in the store before the sale.
Gouzer argues that Banksy is the most consequential artist of our time, comparing his outsider trajectory to Jean-Michel Basquiat's, whose *Untitled* (1982) sold for $110.5 million in 2017. He claims the art world is afraid of Banksy and that no major state museum has the courage to show him, predicting regret and eventual $100 million prices. The sale underscores tensions between street art legitimacy, institutional validation, and the luxury market.