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Banksy’s most expensive painting is perhaps also his most characteristic. “Girl with Balloon” originally sold for $1.4 million in 2018 at Sotheby’s in London.
Banksy chronicled the surprise sale in a video posted to his website noting, "Yesterday I set up a stall in the park selling 100% authentic original signed Banksy canvases. For $60 each." [ 129 ] [ 130 ] [ 131 ] Two of the canvasses sold at a July 2014 auction for $214,000.
LONDON (AP) — Banksy’s playful take on a famous Impressionist painting has sold at auction for 7.6 million pounds ($9.8 million), the second-highest price ever paid for a work by the British ...
Titled “Show Me the Monet,” Banksy's take on a famous impressionist painting by Claude Monet sold to an unidentified bidder at Sotheby's in London on Wednesday night for about $9.8 million ...
The original paintings consist of a 19th-century seascape that bears similarities to Romantic-era paintings. [13] [1] Although Banksy did not create the original oil paintings, [1] the ‘found’ art pieces served as a platform to continue the artist’s contemporary messaging and public expression through existing spaces. Banksy is a self ...
Show Me the Monet is a part of the series and exhibition Crude Oils, a rare segment of Banksy's body of work, as the canvas is entirely hand painted by him. The work was created during a period when Banksy had to remain indoors, in which he began oil painting, then adding his traditional environmental disruption learnt through his pre-existing practice of graffiti. [3]
A Banksy painting is expected to command a king's ransom. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Devolved Parliament is a 2009 oil-on-canvas painting by Banksy, replacing British politicians debating in the House of Commons with chimpanzees.In 2019, the artwork became Banksy's most costly to date, selling for £9.9 million ($12.2 million) at Sotheby's in London on October 3, 2019.