They weren’t.”Ī spokesperson for Sotheby’s has also maintained ignorance, telling CNN in a recent statement that the auction house “had no prior knowledge of this event and were not in any way involved. “Some people think the auction house were in on it. It did,” Banksy posted on Instagram days after the sale. “Some people think it didn’t really shred. REUTERSĪrt experts are still befuddled at the idea that Sotheby’s handlers wouldn’t have detected the shredding device. Banksy’s half-shredded “Girl With Balloon” is returning to Sotheby’s with a valuation of over $8 million - six times the winning bid in 2018, when it was, albeit briefly, an intact painting. The canvas stopped about halfway through the tearing. Yet as soon as the winning bid - $1.4 million - was called, the canvas was quietly prompted to move through what art experts later realized was a shredder installed in the bottom of the frame. Nevertheless, the artwork - now called “Love Is in the Bin” - is expected to fetch $8.3 million, six times its previous price.Īt that Sotheby’s sale, the buyer purchased a fully intact, framed artwork by the notoriously covert street artist, of a girl illustrated in black and white reaching out for a red balloon. Was Banksy selling artwork for $60 each at an NYC subway station?īanksy art ripped out of building wall by UK landlordīanksy’s notorious “Girl With Balloon,” which shocked spectators in 2018 when it immediately self-shredded upon sale, is on the auction block once again - effectively half the painting it was just before the gavel hit three years ago.
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It “still remains unclear how the shredder was activated”, says the BBC and it is also not clear if the auction house was aware that the painting contained a shredder with a spokesperson only saying the destruction was a “surprise”.Ī video posted on social media by Banksy stated that the device was secretly built into the painting “a few years ago… in case it was ever put up for auction”, while his agent said last week that the artist was unlikely to have cooperated with Sotheby’s, since he would not collude with an institution.Banksy painting sprayed in West Bank resurfaces in Tel Avivįlorida art dealer allegedly sold bogus Banksys, Basquiats to rich buyers "Girl With Balloon," which depicts a small child reaching up toward a heart-shaped red balloon, “was originally stenciled on a wall in east London and has been endlessly reproduced, becoming one of Banksy's best-known images”, reports the Daily Telegraph. The European woman who bought the piece, who does not want to be named, said: “At first I was shocked, but I realised I would end up with my own piece of art history.”
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'/> weather radar brasil strathmore house apartments bending plywood. Although the process stopped halfway, it left spectators in complete shock. As soon as it was announced sold, the spray paint on canvas began slipping from its frame in shreds. “Following his surprise intervention on the night, we are pleased to confirm the sale of the artist's newly-titled Love Is In The Bin, the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction.”
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The art world “was left stunned when around half of Girl With Balloon, one of the street artist’s most famous stencil drawings, was reduced to ribbons by a shredder built into the frame after the hammer went down at Sotheby’s in London on 5 October”, says The Guardian.
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