“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge,” is a quote by the artist Mikhail Bakunin, but in an Instagram video shared by Banksy along with the video, the artist misattributes it to Picasso. Banksy has posted a video to his website in which he implies the shredding of his million-pound artwork Girl with Balloon at a Sothebys auction in London was supposed to have been complete.The. “This is now part of Art History in its shredded state and we’d estimate Banksy has added at a minimum 50 percent to it’s value, possibly as high as being worth £2m+.” “Given the media attention this stunt has received, the lucky buyer would see a great return on the £1.02M they paid last night,” Joey Syer of told the media Saturday. One art world observer says the work’s value would likely increase, despite it being sliced up. The auction price was the highest-ever for a Bansky work.ĭespite the shredded work, Sotheby’s told the press on Friday they were in conversation with the winning bidder about what to do next.
The anonymous street artist posted a video on. A version of the work was auctioned off in 2007 as well, and it’s one of the artist’s most recognizable works and was repurposed to support the Syrian people caught in the middle of a civil war in 2014. Banksy has revealed how he secretly built a shredder into a painting so it would self-destruct moments after being sold for more than 1m. The framed Girl With Balloon, one of the. “Balloon Girl” originally appeared in 2002 as a graffiti work in the United Kingdom. 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. “It appears we just got Banksy-ed,” Sotheby’s senior director Alex Branczik said in a statement that described the incident as “the first time in auction history that a work of art automatically shredded itself after coming under the hammer.” It wasn’t immediately clear if the half-shred was intentional or a malfunction.
See also: Did a Bunch of Math Nerds Find Out Banksy’s Real Identity? (2016)Īs the video shows, the shredder only appears to cut half of the painting into ribbons, leaving the little red heart balloon intact. The video shows dozens of blades being placed inside the frame. On Friday, Banksy’s painting, Girl with Red Balloon, sold for a record £860,000 at auction and then began to self-destruct, being shredded by the frame.
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