''Space Girl and Bird'' is a painting by graffiti artist

Banksy Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams ...

. The spray painted on steel work was commissioned by Blur to serve as

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for their album ''

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''. In 2007, it was sold at auction to an American bidder for £288,000, twenty times its estimate value.

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{{Banksy Works by Banksy Blur (band)

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