Banksy works to fetch up to $200k in Beverly Hills auction

A selection of works by elusive British graffiti artist Banksy, including the Mariachi Player and his Rat stencils, are going on sale in June, a Beverly Hills auction house said yesterday.

The Mariachi Player — a mural of a musician playing a guitar and bearing the artist’s signature — was stencilled with black aerosol paint on a wall in Mexico by the artist in 2001, Julien’s Auctions said.

It said it expects the piece to fetch between $150,000 and $200,000, (€108,400 to €144,540) the highest valuation of the five works up for auction.