Banksy painting £1M, Sotheby's :mysteriously shreds after its sale.
 

Clever trick
Frame had a shredder with battery's hidden.

https://e3.365dm.com/18/10/1096x616/...20181006073455


[A Banksy painting has "self-destructed" just moments after selling for more than £1m.
Girl With Red Balloon was one of the star attractions at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Sale on Friday evening.
Depicting a girl reaching towards a bright red heart-shaped balloon, the spray paint and acrylic on canvas is one of Banksy's best-known images.
The auction house said the painting was signed and dedicated and that the vendor had acquired it from the artist in 2006.
The winning bid of £860,000 (£1,042,000 including buyer's premium) was given by phone at around 9pm, well over the pre-auction estimate of between £200-300,000.]

https://news.sky.com/story/banksy-pa...hebys-11518809




Sign Of The Times

Good ole Banksy

Bloody brilliant social commentary

The irony is it's probably increased its value

Iconic. I always found it really funny how his artwork is very anti-greed and radically anti-establishment, and yet rich art snobs can afford to pay millions for it while there are people who cannot even afford food or heating.

how did a battery from 2006 work?

just a silly stunt for idiot art people

Lithium battery's last longer.
Or the frame was changed more recent
some reports have said it was done by remote control, once it was sold
like "Banksy" in there with a clever face mask etc.

Also Sotheby's London refusing to say who bought it?

Maybe it was Banksy buying it?

its a stunt

no way would the auction house not realise in fact its an insult to say they did not know

Yes a stunt hoax

Yes he's done it again ! totally on purpose probably , someone prob bid for him, clever or what !
He bought a painting back from a mate of mine for 80,000 (that he gave to settle a debt) saying it was sentimental ! then sold for for god knows what !

After he became famous of course.

Yes confirmed on Ch4HD news

I for one do believe that the auction house didn't realise that there was a shredder hidden in the frame of something they sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds. I mean, who has time to actually look at the things they're selling?

Yes Banksy
works alone.
Be great if he was in that hall
with a remote control in his pocket

It would be difficult to not notice an unusual distribution of weight towards the bottom of the frame.. shredders have a lot of metal in them, so unless it's evenly distributed, it's going to be heavier on one side... a wireless receiver wouldn't be that heavy... but maybe they distributed the weight enough that the frame felt heavy--i.e. heavier wood variety... that's the real story in itself, if anyone noticed or not...

The effect of the prank itself is predictably lackluster given the venue.

[Banksy reveals he meant to shred entire £1m Girl With Balloon painting
"In rehearsals it worked every time." A new Banksy video shows the
artist's headline-grabbing stunt did not go entirely to plan.]



No wonder its worth more
as it was half destroyed, at Sotheby's


https://e3.365dm.com/18/10/1096x616/...20181018100425
His own Testing

https://news.sky.com/story/banksy-re...nting-11528598