![]() The piece was a copy of one of the artist’s most famous works, an image of a girl. It is to be offered in the contemporary art evening auction on October 14 with an estimate of £4-6 million. Banksy’s Love is in the bin, a painting shredded by the artist in Sotheby’s London auction room in 2018. ![]() "In rehearsals it worked every time," Banksy wrote in the video, which indeed showed "Girl With Balloon" taking an impressive one-way ticket to Shredtown U.S.A. Watch on On Friday, auction house Sotheby’s sold a painting by British graffiti artist Banksy for 1.4 million. EMBARGOED till noon 03 September 2021 London, UK. Ugh, is there anything worse for the ego than only reaching 70 percent shred capacity when at least 98 percent could've been hit? Gauche much? That's because, while the artwork was successfully shredded into large chunks by a hidden device within the ornate frame, it didn't shred enough of the artwork. Banksy Explains His Self-Destructing Painting Was Supposed to Be Shredded Entirely. In a new video that documents the behind-the-scenes process of preparing his "Girl With Balloon" for self-destruction at Sotheby's earlier this month, Banksy-don't worry, his anonymity remains in the video, for all you art purists out there who don't want to do a simple Google search and ruin that postmodern magic-implies that his plan actually failed in the grander scheme of what he wanted to accomplish. A Banksy painting that famously began to self-destruct just after it was sold at auction is again going on auction this time at five times its original price. A painting by mysterious British artist Banksy shred itself into pieces at the moment it sold for more than 1 million pounds at a London auction on Friday. The framed Girl With Balloon, one of the. Well, we guess this gives new meaning to the term "director's cut." Banksy has released a video showing how he secretly built a shredder into one of his paintings that self-destructed after it was sold for more than 1m. The nearly 3-minute long video is titled, Shred the Love, the Director’s cut.
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