By . Ryan Gorman . PUBLISHED: . 00:55 EST, 7 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:38 EST, 8 December 2013 . A Banksy mural that was originally on the wall of a Hollywood gas station sold this week for more than $200,000 at auction. An anonymous bidder scooped up the massive slab of street art from Julien’s Auctions, in Beverly Hills, with a winning bid of $209,000 in the first-ever US auction of a Banksy piece. The mural is on a nine-by-eight-foot slab of beige brick wall and weighs almost four tons, according to Reuters. On the move: Banksy painted 'Flower Girl' on the side of a Los Angeles gas station in 2008 - it sold Thursday at auction . The piece was completed in 2008 using Banksy’s trademark stencil-style, according to an auction house statement. It shows a young girl wearing a dress and carrying a basket of flowers while looking up at a camera sitting at the top of a taller-than-life flower stem – it is named ‘Flower Girl.’ ‘In ‘Flower Girl,’ the artist poignantly juxtaposes the innocence of a young girl picking flowers with the curious and questioning gaze of someone not yet willing to back down,’ said the statement. As it originally appeared: 'Flower Girl' before it was removed from a Hollywood Chevron station . Where it all began: This gas station, now a Chevron, is where the Banksy mural was resided before being removed . Workers removed it from a Hollywood Chevron station so it could be sold at Thursday’s auction. Four other Banksy pieces were sold Thursday for a total of $248,000, Reuters noted. Among them was ‘TV Girl,’ which sold for $137,000. ‘Flower Girl’ was sold as part of an auction featuring only street art, and was among a collection of 92 total pieces put up for sale. The pieces pulled in a small fortune, but they were not the highest-selling Banksy works of all-time. That distinction goes to a piece known as ‘Slave Labour,’ according to Reuters. ‘Slave Labour,’ which shows a young child making Union Jack patches on an industrial sewing machine, sold for $1.1million at a recent London auction. More Banksy pieces will sell later this month in Miami, Reuters noted.
The mural, named 'Flower Girl,' was first painted in 2008 .
This was the first US auction of a Banksy piece .
It was one of five sold at Thursday's auction .
By . Ryan Gorman . PUBLISHED: . 00:55 EST, 7 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:38 EST, 8 December 2013 . A Banksy mural that was originally on the wall of a Hollywood gas station sold this week for more than $200,000 at auction. An anonymous bidder scooped up the massive slab of street art from Julien’s Auctions, in Beverly Hills, with a winning bid of $209,000 in the first-ever US auction of a Banksy piece. The mural is on a nine-by-eight-foot slab of beige brick wall and weighs almost four tons, according to Reuters. On the move: Banksy painted 'Flower Girl' on the side of a Los Angeles gas station in 2008 - it sold Thursday at auction . The piece was completed in 2008 using Banksy’s trademark stencil-style, according to an auction house statement. It shows a young girl wearing a dress and carrying a basket of flowers while looking up at a camera sitting at the top of a taller-than-life flower stem – it is named ‘Flower Girl.’ ‘In ‘Flower Girl,’ the artist poignantly juxtaposes the innocence of a young girl picking flowers with the curious and questioning gaze of someone not yet willing to back down,’ said the statement. As it originally appeared: 'Flower Girl' before it was removed from a Hollywood Chevron station . Where it all began: This gas station, now a Chevron, is where the Banksy mural was resided before being removed . Workers removed it from a Hollywood Chevron station so it could be sold at Thursday’s auction. Four other Banksy pieces were sold Thursday for a total of $248,000, Reuters noted. Among them was ‘TV Girl,’ which sold for $137,000. ‘Flower Girl’ was sold as part of an auction featuring only street art, and was among a collection of 92 total pieces put up for sale. The pieces pulled in a small fortune, but they were not the highest-selling Banksy works of all-time. That distinction goes to a piece known as ‘Slave Labour,’ according to Reuters. ‘Slave Labour,’ which shows a young child making Union Jack patches on an industrial sewing machine, sold for $1.1million at a recent London auction. More Banksy pieces will sell later this month in Miami, Reuters noted.
first-ever US auction of a Banksy piece. The was completed in 2008 using Banksy’s trademark ‘Flower Girl.’ ‘In ‘Flower Girl,’ the artist station so it could be sold at Thursday’s