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Review: Episode 2 of Landscape Artist of the Year.Awards - Society of Wildlife Artists Annual Exhibi.Review: Society of Wildlife Artists 55th Annual Ex.Review: Episode 3 of Landscape Artist of the Year.He has previously pulled stunts in the Louvre, Tate Britain, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Natural History Museum.Īuction house Sotheby’s has now joined that impressive list. ‘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.’ A history of high-profile pranksīanksy is no stranger to pranking art establishments. She commented: ‘When the hammer came down and the work was shredded, I was at first a bit shocked, but gradually I began to realise that I would end up in my own piece of art history.’īranczik added: ‘Banksy didn’t destroy an artwork in the auction, he created one. Since then, the buyer-a female European collector-has revealed she will be proceeding with the purchase at the same price as was achieved on 5 October. See also: Stan Douglas Video Installation ‘Doppelgänger’ to be Exhibited at Victoria Miro London A worthy purchase
After the sale, Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s head of contemporary art in Europe, said, ‘It appears we got Banksy-ed.’ The artwork-which was initially estimated to fetch £200,000-300,000-self-destructed immediately after it went under the hammer for a whopping £1.04 million. See the entire video below:Īt one of the most high-profile auctions to date, Banksy’s Girl With Balloon was offered by Sotheby’s during its Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 5 October in London. It ends with the words: ‘In rehearsals it worked every time…’ with a replica of the piece in complete shreds. The clip also features recordings from the auction itself-including clips of the moment the mechanism was activated as well as the partial destruction.
In the video, Banksy himself is shown constructing the shredding mechanism. Shred the Love (the director’s cut), which was posted on Tuesday 17 October, implies the stunt pulled at the Sotheby’s auction should have ended with the artwork being completely destroyed. Anonymous street artist Banksy released a video on his official website showing a ‘practice run’ shredding of his famous million-pound Girl With Balloon (2006).