Author: By Neringa / Source: Bored Panda
Banksy’s painting Girl With Balloon is one of the best-known works of Banksy. The painting (made with spray and acrylic paint) is a reproduction of the original image that was painted on a building in East London back in 2002. According to the website MyArtBroker.
com, which resells Banksy artwork, the worth of the re-painted and framed version of Girl with Baloon grew by 20% each year. Finally, this Friday, the painting was sold for a staggering amount of a little bit more than 1 million dollars.Moments later after the Girl With Balloon was pronounced as sold, a shredder that was hidden inside the frame of the artwork started destroying the painting into little pieces. According to some sources, the shredding mechanism was triggered by a remote control.
Later Banksy himself posted an image on Instagram with the crowd of the auction in shock and with the caption below “Going, going, gone…” The following day on the same instagram account, he posted a video in which installation of the secret shredder was filmed. The short film opened with the caption: “A few years ago, I secretly built a shredder into a painting.” The video shows how someone is putting the finishing touches upon the painting frame and later on the text appears: “In…
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