It’s been two weeks now that in London a work by the Graffiti Artist Banksy in a picture frame built-in shredder destroyed itself. Not only in the art world, this created an uproar, because the buyer paid-in seconds before to around 1.2 million Euro for the piece. Images of Bristol – born, anonymous artist be sold today, Wednesday, evening again, this time in Paris.
The rush is supposed to be after the shredding action at Sotheby’s in the UK are particularly strong, said the auction house, Artcurial, in whose premises the auction is about to expire.
For 1.2 million euros, Shredded Banksy acquired image now has a new name, and the buyer wants it. AFP, not “
keep the Paris auction house:” Banksy is repeated, The Paris auction house feared Betxlarge although no similar action, with the voltage on the auction Should something happen, then surely something else, said auctioneer Arnaud Oliveux multiple media. Because Banksy does not repeat itself. At the auction, around 100 works from a private collection under the Hammer. Banksy three silk-screen prints, and two objects are auctioned.
The estimated value of “Stop and Search”, on which a police officer is the basket of a girl by looking, between 30,000 and 35,000 euros. The image of the “Queen Vic”, it’s Queen Victoria on a half-naked woman, is estimated to be 3500 to 4000 Euro. The auction house closes, to achieve the destruction of action higher sales prices. The Sotheby’s zerschredderte image, in which the lower part is now hanging in thin strips, should now be worth Double.
Behind the action in London, the artist himself, the criticism of the commercialization of the art market put. Who hides behind the Pseudonym, is unknown.
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