Banksy's painting *Girl and Balloon on Found Landscape* sold for $18 million (£13.3 million) at a Fair Warning auction held at Tiffany & Co.'s Landmark store in New York. The 2012 work, which reimagines a traditional pastoral landscape with the artist's iconic balloon motif, was purchased by an anonymous US bidder after a phone battle. The result places it among the three highest auction prices ever achieved for a Banksy artwork, surpassing *Sunflowers From Petrol Station* and trailing only *Game Changer* and *Love Is in the Bin*.
This sale reinforces Banksy's position at the highest end of the contemporary art market, where his rarest works now command prices once reserved for blue-chip modern masters. The auction also reshapes the ranking of Banksy's top results, highlighting the enduring global resonance of the *Girl with Balloon* motif, which first appeared on a London wall in 2002 and has since become one of the most recognizable images in contemporary art.