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Love is in the Bin is a 2018 art intervention by Banksy at Sotheby's London. According to Sotheby's, it is "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction." [1] His 2006 painting of Girl with Balloon unexpectedly self-destructed immediately after it was sold at auction. The damaged painting was later renamed Love is in ...
Only the lower half shredded. Banksy released an image of the shredding on Instagram with the words "Going, going gone..". [26] Sotheby's said, "We have not experienced this situation in the past where a painting spontaneously shredded", [24] leading some market watchers to speculate the remains of the painting will be worth even more. [27]
A work of art by the elusive street artist known as Banksy shredded seconds after it was sold at auction in London Friday. Banksy painting self-destructs after million dollar sale Skip to main content
The gallery version of Banksy's Girl With Balloon suddenly shredded itself after selling for £1 million at Sotheby's.
Campaign to save building home to early Banksy art Banksy's Girl with Balloon print sells for £80,000 Each time Banksy arrived at the youth club, he was greeted by dozens of eager kids.
[156] [157] Banksy has since released a video on how the shredder was installed into the frame and the shredding of the picture, explaining that he had surreptitiously fitted the painting with the shredder a few years previously, in case it ever went up for auction. To explain his rationale for destroying his own artwork, Banksy quoted Picasso ...
In 1970, John Baldessari and five other artists burned all the paintings Baldessari had created between 1953 and 1966 in a bonfire. The 2018 artwork Love is in the Bin by Banksy was designed with a shredder hidden in the frame, activated upon the painting's sale at auction to destroy the lower half of the artwork. [1]
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