Nola 

Medium: Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Year: 2008
Size: 76×56 cm (30×22 inches)
Editions:
Nola (White Rain): 289 signed
Nola (Grey Rain): 63 signed
Nola (Orange Rain): 32 signed
Nola (Yellow Rain): 31 signed
Artist’s Proofs:
66 signed AP (6 different colorways)
Publisher: Pictures on Walls, London

 

Nola portrays a young girl in black and white, in a dress beneath a black umbrella, holding one hand out and feeling the rain that is pouring down. The background is a block grey as white rain falls from the umbrella.
Rendered in Banksy’s classic graffiti-spray-stencil style, this artwork that originally appeared as a mural on a wall in New Orleans.
This striking image of a girl being drenched by rain from inside of her umbrella is in reference to the devastating event of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which have been amplified by failure of the flood defenses that had been designed to protect the citizens from such a disaster. Naturally, an umbrella is designed to keep the individual using it dry and protected from the elements. The fact that the rain is falling not from the sky but instead from the inside of the umbrella is Banksy’s way of suggesting to the viewer that very things (or institutions) that were created and designed to protect us can, at times, do quite the opposite – a scathing indictment of FEMA and the government’s response to protect and help the people directly affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Nola (Grey Rain), 2008
Edition: 63 signed
Nola was released in late 2008 as a limited edition of 289 prints with White Rain. The edition size of 289 relates to the age of the city of New Orleans where this visual first appeared. During the initial on sale – they experienced technical difficulties whereby Pictures on Walls accidentally oversold the edition – leaving them with not enough prints to fill the orders they accepted. Shortly after the mishap, they created a Grey Rain edition of 63 prints, and offered the right of first refusal to those customers who didn’t get a White Rain edition due to the oversell.
Nola (Orange Rain), 2008
Edition: 32 signed
Two colorways have appeared since the print was originally released: 32 in Orange Rain and 31 in Yellow Rain, neither of which were offered to the public for sale. Banksy also released a rare set of Nola Artist’s Proof editions of 66 that came in 6 unique variations of Multicolor Rain, reserved for VIP collectors. All Nola prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Nola (Yellow Rain), 2008
Edition: 31 signed

 

 

Auction Market Overview

Nola (White Rain)

2025 Sold Once
Top Price: GBP 39,100 (USD 52,275) @ Tate Ward on 10 December 2025
2024 Sold Once
Top Price: GBP 60,300 (USD 76,883) @ Forum Auctions on 11 June 2024
2023 No Sale at Auction in 2023
2022 Sold Twice
Average Price: GBP 102,390 (USD 134,100)
Top Price: GBP 116,580 (USD 159,715) @ Forum Auctions on 3 February 2022
2021 Sold 4 Times
Average Price: GBP 136,564 (USD 188,465)
Record Auction Price: GBP 154,100 (USD 211,117) @ Forum Auctions on 5 March 2021
2020 Sold Twice
Average Price: GBP 89,375 (USD 117,975)
Top Price: GBP 118,750 (USD 156,750) @ Christie’s online on 23 September 2020

 

2025 Auction Results

#1. Nola (Yellow Rain), 2008

Christie’s online: 1 April 2025
Estimated: GBP 70,000 – 100,000
GBP 81,900 / USD 105,815

BANKSY
NOLA (Green Rain), 2007
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed and numbered 13/31 in pencil, with the artist’s blindstamp

#2. Nola (White Rain), 2008

Tate Ward: 10 December 2025
Estimated: GBP 30,000 – 40,000
GBP 39,100 / USD 52,275


BANKSY (British b.1974)
NOLA (White Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on paper
Signed and numbered from an edition of 289 in pencil
Published by Pictures On Walls

2024 Auction Results

Nola (White Rain), 2008

Forum Auctions: 11 June 2024
Estimated: GBP 45,000 – 55,000
GBP 45,000 (Hammer)
GBP 60,300 / USD 76,883

BANKSY (b.1974)
Nola (White Rain) (signed), 2008
Screenprint in grey and black on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 289 with the publisher’s blindstamp

 

 

2023 Auction Results

#1. Nola (Orange Rain), 2008

Forum Auctions: 22 February 2023
Estimated: GBP 110,000 – 150,000
GBP 136,680 / USD 168,116

BANKSY
Nola (Orange Rain), 2008
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered /32 in pencil, lower left with the publisher’s blindstamp

#2. Nola (Orange Rain), 2008

Sotheby’s online: 20 April 2023
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 107,950 / USD 134,380

BANKSY
Nola (Orange Rain), 2008
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered 14/32 in pencil, lower left

 

 

2022 Auction Results

#1. Nola (Orange Rain), 2008

Sotheby’s online, 26 April 2022
Estimated: GBP 150,000 – 200,000
GBP 189,000 / USD 238,140

BANKSY
Nola (Orange Rain), 2008
Signed in pencil, lower right
Inscribed ‘Thanks Josie ❤X’ in pencil, lower left
Aside from the numbered edition of 32

#2. Nola (Green Rain AP), 2008

Sotheby’s London: 30 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 163,800 / USD 201,474

BANKSY
Nola (Green Rain AP), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right
Inscribed AP/05 in pencil, lower left
One of 66 Artist’s Proofs printed in various colorways

#3. Nola (Green/Blue Rain AP), 2008

Forum Auctions: 13 December 2022
Estimated: GBP 115,000 – 150,000
GBP 147,400 / USD 182,400

BANKSY
Nola (Green/Blue Rain AP), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right
Inscribed AP in pencil, lower left
One of 66 Artist’s Proofs printed in various colorways

#4. Nola (White Rain), 2008

Forum Auctions: 3 February 2022
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 116,580 / USD 159,715

BANKSY
Nola (White Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered in pencil from the edition of 289

#5. Nola (Grey Rain), 2008

Sotheby’s online: 26 April 2022
Estimated: GBP 70,000 – 100,000
EUR 88,200 / USD 111,132

BANKSY
Nola (Grey Rain), 2008
Aside from the numbered edition of 63
Signed in pencil, lower right
Inscribed ‘M’ with a heart and peace symbol, lower left

#6. Nola (White Rain), 2008

Sotheby’s London, 30 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 70,000 – 90,000
GBP 88,200 / USD 108,486

BANKSY
Nola (White Rain), 2008
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered 94/289 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left

 

2021 Auction Results

#1. Nola (Yellow Rain), 2008

Christie’s online: 1 April 2021
Estimated: GBP 200,000 – 300,000
GBP 375,000 / USD 517,500
AUCTION RECORD FOR NOLA
BANKSY
Nola (Yellow Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors with a hand-applied red sticker on wove paper
Signed in red pen, inscribed with a heart, a cross with four dots, and a peace sign
A unique proof outside of the edition
This hand-finished proof, with a red circular sticker applied to the girl’s ear, is a unique variant aside from the editions of NOLA. The work was donated by the artist to the Urban Art Auction in aid of Great Ormond Street Cochlear Implant Unit and CICS, organized by the artist Inkie, in April 2009.

#2. Nola (Orange Rain), 2008

Tate Ward Auction: 7 December 2021
Estimated: GBP 180,000 – 220,000
GBP 228,000 / USD 301,815

BANKSY
Nola (Orange Rain), 2008
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered 12/32 in pencil, lower left

#3. Nola (Blue to Green Rain), 2008

Christie’s London: 2 July 2021
Estimated: GBP 200,000 – 300,000
GBP 218,750 / USD 303,000

BANKSY
Nola (Blue to Green Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered AP/26 in pencil, lower left

#4. Nola (Yellow Rain), 2008

Tate Ward Auction: 7 December 2021
Estimated: GBP 180,000 – 220,000
GBP 216,000 / USD 289,440

BANKSY
Nola (Yellow Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered 23/31 in pencil, lower left

#5. Nola (Grey Rain), 2008

Forum Auctions: 5 March 2021
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 174,200 / USD 242,138

BANKSY (b. 1974)
Nola (Grey rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed and numbered 58/63 with the publisher’s blindstamp

#6. Nola (White Rain), 2008

Forum Auctions: 5 March 2021
Estimated: GBP 90,000 – 120,000
GBP 154,100 / USD 211,117
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR NOLA (WHITE RAIN)

BANKSY (B. 1974)
NOLA (White), 2008
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed in pencil, numbered 57/289 with the publisher’s blindstamp

#7. Nola (White Rain), 2008

Christie’s online: 1 April 2021
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 150,000 / USD 207,000

BANKSY (B. 1974)
NOLA (White), 2008
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed in pencil, numbered 54/289 with the publisher’s blindstamp

#8. Nola (White Rain), 2008

Bonhams online: 29 June 2021
Estimated: GBP 70,000 – 100,000
GBP 125,250 / USD 173,241 

BANKSY (BORN 1974)
Nola (White), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed and numbered 176/289 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp

#9. Nola (White Rain), 2008

Heritage Auctions: 22 April 2021
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 150,000
USD 162,500
BANKSY (BORN 1974)
Nola (White Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed and numbered 238/289 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp

#10. Nola (Grey Rain), 2008

Sotheby’s Milan: 15 December 2021
Estimated: EUR 90,000 – 130,000
EUR 119,700 / USD 134,766

BANKSY (b. 1974)
Nola (Grey rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors
Signed and numbered 48/63 with the publisher’s blindstamp

 

 

Nola (White Rain)

Nola (White Rain) sold once at auction in 2024, at Forum Auctions, on 11 June 2024, for GBP 60,300 (USD 76,883).

Nola (White Rain) did not sell at auction in 2023.

Nola (White Rain) sold twice at auction in 2022, at Forum Auctions on 3 February 2022 for GBP 116,580 (USD 159,715), and at Sotheby’s in London, on 30 June 2022, for GBP 88,200 (USD 108,486).

Nola (White Rain) sold 4 times at auction in 2021, at an average price of GBP 136,564 (USD 188,465). The highest price ever paid at auction for Nola (White Rain) is GBP 154,100 (USD 211,117), achieved at Forum Auctions on 5 March 2021.

Tate Ward: 10 December 2025
Estimated: GBP 30,000 – 40,000
GBP 39,100 / USD 52,275


BANKSY (British b.1974)
NOLA (White Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on paper
Signed and numbered from an edition of 289 in pencil
Published by Pictures On Walls

Forum Auctions: 11 June 2024
Estimated: GBP 45,000 – 55,000
GBP 45,000 (Hammer)
GBP 60,300 / USD 76,883

BANKSY (b.1974)
Nola (White Rain) (signed), 2008
Screenprint in grey and black on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 289 with the publisher’s blindstamp

Sotheby’s London, 30 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 70,000 – 90,000
GBP 88,200 / USD 108,486

BANKSY
Nola (White Rain), 2008
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered 94/289 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left

Forum Auctions: 3 February 2022
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 116,580 / USD 159,715

BANKSY
Nola (White Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered in pencil from the edition of 289

Bonhams online: 29 June 2021
Estimated: GBP 70,000 – 100,000
GBP 125,250 / USD 173,241 

BANKSY (BORN 1974)
Nola (White), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed and numbered 176/289 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp
Heritage Auctions: 22 April 2021
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 150,000
USD 162,500
BANKSY (BORN 1974)
Nola (White Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed and numbered 238/289 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp
Christie’s online: 1 April 2021
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 150,000 / USD 207,000

BANKSY (B. 1974)
NOLA (White), 2008
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed in pencil, numbered 54/289 with the publisher’s blindstamp

Forum Auctions: 5 March 2021
Estimated: GBP 90,000 – 120,000
GBP 154,100 / USD 211,117
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR NOLA (WHITE RAIN)

BANKSY (B. 1974)
NOLA (White), 2008
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed in pencil, numbered 57/289 with the publisher’s blindstamp

 

Nola (Grey Rain)

Nola (Grey Rain) is the second largest edition of Nola Prints, made of 63 signed prints. It only sold 5 times at auction since 2008, including once in 2022, and twice in 2021. Nola (Grey Rain) last sold at auction on 26 April 2022, at Sotheby’s online for EUR 88,200 (USD 111,132).

Sotheby’s online: 26 April 2022
Estimated: GBP 70,000 – 100,000
EUR 88,200 / USD 111,132

BANKSY
Nola (Grey Rain), 2008
Aside from the numbered edition of 63
Signed in pencil, lower right
Inscribed ‘M’ with a heart and peace symbol, lower left

Sotheby’s Milan: 15 December 2021
Estimated: EUR 90,000 – 130,000
EUR 119,700 / USD 134,766

BANKSY (b. 1974)
Nola (Grey rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors
Signed and numbered 48/63 with the publisher’s blindstamp

Forum Auctions: 5 March 2021
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 174,200 / USD 242,138

BANKSY (b. 1974)
Nola (Grey rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on Arches 88 wove paper
Signed and numbered 58/63 with the publisher’s blindstamp

Sotheby’s London: 19 September 2019
Estimated: GBP 35,000 – 45,000
GBP 68,750 / USD 84,450

BANKSY (b.1974)
NOLA (GREY), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, numbered 31/63

 

Nola (Orange Rain)

Sotheby’s online: 20 April 2023
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 107,950 / USD 134,380

BANKSY
Nola (Orange Rain), 2008
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered 14/32 in pencil, lower left

Forum Auctions: 22 February 2023
Estimated: GBP 110,000 – 150,000
GBP 136,680 / USD 168,116

BANKSY
Nola (Orange Rain), 2008
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered /32 in pencil, lower left with the publisher’s blindstamp

Sotheby’s online, 26 April 2022
Estimated: GBP 150,000 – 200,000
GBP 189,000 / USD 238,140

BANKSY
Nola (Orange Rain), 2008
Signed in pencil, lower right
Inscribed ‘Thanks Josie ❤X’ in pencil, lower left
Aside from the numbered edition of 32

Tate Ward Auction: 7 December 2021
Estimated: GBP 180,000 – 220,000
GBP 228,000 / USD 301,815

BANKSY
Nola (Orange Rain), 2008
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered 12/32 in pencil, lower left

 

Nola (Yellow Rain)

Nola (Yellow Rain) was released in 2008 as an edition of 31 signed prints. Nola (Yellow Rain), a print aside from the edition, sold at Christie’s online for the highest price ever paid at auction for a Nola print at GBP 375,000 (USD 517,500) on 1 April 2021.

Christie’s online: 1 April 2025
Estimated: GBP 70,000 – 100,000
GBP 81,900 / USD 105,815

BANKSY
NOLA (Green Rain), 2007
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed and numbered 13/31 in pencil, with the artist’s blindstamp

Christie’s Online: 14 March 2023
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 151,200 / USD 185,976

BANKSY
NOLA (Green Rain), 2007
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil lower right
Numbered 17/31 in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp, lower left

Tate Ward Auction: 7 December 2021
Estimated: GBP 180,000 – 220,000
GBP 216,000 / USD 289,440

BANKSY
Nola (Yellow Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered 23/31 in pencil, lower left

Christie’s online: 1 April 2021
Estimated: GBP 200,000 – 300,000
GBP 375,000 / USD 517,500
BANKSY
Nola (Yellow Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors with a hand-applied red sticker on wove paper
Signed in red pen, inscribed with a heart, a cross with four dots, and a peace sign
A unique proof outside of the edition
This hand-finished proof, with a red circular sticker applied to the girl’s ear, is a unique variant aside from the editions of NOLA. The work was donated by the artist to the Urban Art Auction in aid of Great Ormond Street Cochlear Implant Unit and CICS, organized by the artist Inkie, in April 2009.
Sotheby’s online: 19 September 2020
Estimated: GBP 50,000 – 70,000
GBP 226,800 / USD 294,840

BANKSY
Nola (Yellow Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right

Numbered 30/31 in pencil, lower left

 

Nola (Signed AP)

Only 6 Nola Prints from this very rare edition of 66 signed APs in varying colorways of multi-color rain sold at auction since 2008.

Forum Auctions: 13 December 2022
Estimated: GBP 115,000 – 150,000
GBP 147,400 / USD 182,400

BANKSY
Nola (Green/Blue Rain AP), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right
Inscribed AP in pencil, lower left
One of 66 Artist’s Proofs printed in various colorways

Sotheby’s London: 30 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 163,800 / USD 201,474

BANKSY
Nola (Green Rain AP), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right
Inscribed AP/05 in pencil, lower left
One of 66 Artist’s Proofs printed in various colorways

Christie’s London: 2 July 2021
Estimated: GBP 200,000 – 300,000
GBP 218,750 / USD 303,000

BANKSY
Nola (Blue to Green Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right
Numbered AP/26 in pencil, lower left

Bonhams London: 18 December 2017
Estimated: GBP 40,000 – 60,000
GBP 75,000 / USD 100,342

BANKSY (British, born 1975)
Nola (Blue and Green Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed and inscribed with a heart AP/01 in blue crayon
A unique unpublished color variant

Christie’s London: 20 September 2017
Estimated: GBP 40,000 – 60,000
GBP 90,000 / USD 121,581

BANKSY (B. 1974)
NOLA (Pink and Yellow Rain), 2008
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed in pencil, inscribed with a peace symbol and a heart, dedicated to JM
A very rare, unpublished color variant