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    Painting Self-Destructs Immediately After Being Sold For $1.4 Million

    -Someone purchased an iconic Banksy painting for $1.4 million on Friday, only to watch it immediately turn to shreds.

    Moments after the gavel came down on the sale of the enigmatic artist's "Girl With Balloon" painting at Sotheby's auction house in London, the painting passed through a shredder that had apparently been hidden in the frame. The painting only went partially through the shredder. leaving half a painting intact and half shredded at the bottom, according to The Associated Press.

    The artwork, spray paint and acrylic on canvas, showed one of the artist's most well-known images ― a young girl reaching her hand toward a red, heart-shaped balloon.

    "It appears we just got Banksy-ed," Alex Branczik, Sotheby's senior director, said in a press release from the auction house.

    Banksy, the world-famous artist whose identity is still a mystery, posted a photo of the shocking moment on Instagram, captioning the image, "Going, going, gone..."

    He also posted a video confirming that he had secretly built a shredder into the painting, "in case it was ever put up for auction." He captioned the post, "'The urge to destroy is also a creative urge' - Picasso...

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b028e1fe3de9ca

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    Well alrighty then.

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    It wasn’t clear how the shredder was triggered.

    That's what I was gonna ask.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    It wasn’t clear how the shredder was triggered.

    That's what I was gonna ask.
    I read something that said they think it was remote controlled. From what I read they don't know what Banksy looks like, so he very well could have been at the auction, and clicked on the remote control when the gavel struck.

    Apparently he just sold a painting that said something similar: I can't believe you people buy this crap. And it SOLD!

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    When reading this yesterday on Fox, my wife and I just laughed.

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    Well, it looks like the painting's value has increased!

    The website MyArtBroker.com, which resells Banksy pieces, said Girl with Balloon had enjoyed annual increases in value of about 20% in recent years. “Prices now are regularly exceeding £115,000 for signed authenticated prints,” said its co-founder Joey Syer.

    “The auction result will only propel this further and given the media attention this stunt has received, the lucky buyer would see a great return on the £1.02m they paid last night.

    “This is now part of art history in its shredded state and we’d estimate Banksy has added at a minimum 50% to its value, possibly as high as being worth £2m plus.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...l-with-balloon


    An example of people with too much spare money on their hands.

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    Quote Originally Posted by njtom View Post


    An example of people with too much spare money on their hands.
    My exact thought. Incredible vanity.

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    And we thought cocaine was God's way of telling people they had too much money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    And we thought cocaine was God's way of telling people they had too much money.

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