Going, Going, Gone ….. Sotheby’s ‘Banksy-ed’, 5 October 2018
GIRL WITH BALLOON sold for just over £1m. at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction… shredded moments later
“With its striking simplicity and raw immediacy, Girl with Balloon, 2006, is one of the most widely recognisable images by the anonymous and world renowned artist Banksy. Unlike the other editioned iterations of this famous motif, the present work is a rare unique painting that was given to the present owner by Banksy in 2006 …. voted the nation’s favourite artwork in a 2017 poll; a resounding affirmation of the broad and wide reaching popularity of this undeniably iconic and culturally formidable image.” (Sotheby’s catalogue note).
The partly shredded work has since been re-named “Love is in the Bin“.
Watch the sales room response – which includes a brief glimpse of a video recorder suspected to be Banksy himself – here!
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