Banksy?s ?Love is in the Bin? is His Most Expensive Work
Banksy caused a major shock three years ago when one of his paintings were sold in an auction, as he instantly transformed it into another work of art. Now, that artwork is his most expensive work to date.
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Image: Sotheby’s
Banksy?s ?Love is in the Bin? is now Banksy?s most expensive work, selling for US$25.4 million in an auction in London. This makes it his most expensive artwork. This piece of art had beat out his previous painting ?Game Changer? which sold for US$23 million.
The original artwork, ?Girl With Balloon? was sold for US$1.4 million three years ago in the same salesroom, and promptly destroyed itself with a shredder hidden inside the frame slicing the photo in half. A shocking moment in the art world, and also the first time an artwork was created at an auction.
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Image: Sotheby’s
Banksy took ownership of the stunt and revealed it was supposed to shred itself entirely, but the shredder had malfunctioned halfway through the process. He issued the artwork a new certificate of authenticity and renamed it ?Love is in the Bin?.
?It appears we just got Banksy-ed,? Alex Branczik, Sotheby?s head of contemporary art in Europe, said in a statement at the time. Banksy confirmed as much in an Instagram post, in which he stated that some people in Sotheby?s were ...
The post Banksy’s “Love is in the Bin” is His Most Expensive Work appeared first on LUXUO.
Image: Sotheby’s
Banksy?s ?Love is in the Bin? is now Banksy?s most expensive work, selling for US$25.4 million in an auction in London. This makes it his most expensive artwork. This piece of art had beat out his previous painting ?Game Changer? which sold for US$23 million.
The original artwork, ?Girl With Balloon? was sold for US$1.4 million three years ago in the same salesroom, and promptly destroyed itself with a shredder hidden inside the frame slicing the photo in half. A shocking moment in the art world, and also the first time an artwork was created at an auction.
READ MORE: A Previously Unseen Van Gogh Drawing Goes on Display
Image: Sotheby’s
Banksy took ownership of the stunt and revealed it was supposed to shred itself entirely, but the shredder had malfunctioned halfway through the process. He issued the artwork a new certificate of authenticity and renamed it ?Love is in the Bin?.
?It appears we just got Banksy-ed,? Alex Branczik, Sotheby?s head of contemporary art in Europe, said in a statement at the time. Banksy confirmed as much in an Instagram post, in which he stated that some people in Sotheby?s were ...
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