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The painting is an adaptation of Banksy's 2002 mural Girl with Balloon, rare as a unique work rather than a print. It was given by Banksy to a friend shortly after the "Barely Legal" exhibition in 2006. [5] Banksy has said he prepared the self-destruct mechanism at this time in case the work was ever put up for auction. [6]
Immediately after the auction ended, a mechanism hidden in the frame was triggered by remote control and partially shredded the piece. [68] Banksy later explained that he had built the shredder into the painting several years before it went up for auction, [69] and named the new artwork created by the shredding Love is in the Bin.
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]
The gallery version of Banksy's Girl With Balloon suddenly shredded itself after selling for £1 million at Sotheby's.
The bottom half of the canvas of "Girl With Balloon,” arguably Banksy’s best known work, shredded itself after its original 2018 sale. Banksy's self-destructing painting sells for over $25 ...
The painting in question, of a girl with a red balloon, shredded itself moments after selling at auction for $1.4 million. CNN’s Lianne Kolirin, Zeena Saifi, Nadeem Muaddi and Alex Rees ...
On the night of 22 June 2009, 10 days into the Banksy Versus Bristol exhibition at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery just up the road, the mural was defaced by seven [5] blue paintballs fired at the mural with a paintball gun. [13] [14] The perpetrator was never identified, although one suspect was King Robbo, due to his rivalry with Banksy ...
A Banksy picture which was half sliced by a shredder concealed in its frame when it was sold at auction fetched 18.6 million pounds ($25.4 million) when it went back under the hammer in the same ...