A big Banksy artwork spray-painted on the side of a truck has sold in Paris for 625,400 euros ($A898,434), an auction house says. That's more than double the $400,000 price tag that auction house Digard was hoping for.

The 10-metre wide painting, made in 1998 and titled Silent Majority, was done on the side of a truck's trailer during the Glastonbury Festival in England by the mysterious 40-year-old British street artist with the help of a colleague named Inkie.

Look nice above the mantlepiece? ... The 1998 Banksy work that sold for almost $900,000. Credit:Jacques Brinon

It shows what looks like commandos landing on a beach in an inflatable dinghy fitted with music speakers and was commissioned for £200 pounds (about $A300 at the time).