Author: Jessica Vacco-Bolanos / Source: Us Weekly
No change of heart! The purchaser of the $1.4 million Banksy Girl with Balloon painting has decided to keep the artwork despite the fact that it shredded itself moments after the woman won the bid.
Sotheby’s — the auction house where Girl with Balloon was sold — announced on Thursday, October 11, that “The buyer, a female European collector and a long-standing client of Sotheby’s, is proceeding with the purchase at the same price as was achieved in the room on the night.”
The buyer told Sotheby’s: “When the hammer came down last week and the work was shredded, I was at first shocked,…
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