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Girl With Balloon (unsigned), 2004 It opened with the caption: A few years ago, I secretly built a shredder into a painting., The clip shows a hooded figure putting the finishing touches on the device, before text appears on the screen saying: In case it was ever put up for auction.. The damaged painting was later renamed Love is in the Bin. Banksy confirmed that he was responsible for the shredding and gave the altered piece a new name, Love is in the Bin. That's all homes for sale in Meylan, France we have matching your search today. Performance & security by Cloudflare. And its still there. [3][4], The painting is an adaptation of Banksy's 2002 mural Girl with Balloon, rare as a unique work rather than a print. On Saturday evening, Banksy posted a video on his Instagram page which showed a shredder being fitted to the frame of the painting. Girl with Balloon - Wikipedia The spray-painted canvas "Girl With Balloon" went under the hammer at Sotheby's in London, fetching more than three times its pre-sale estimate and equaling a record price for the artist. Banksy's "Love is in the Bin" (2018) is installed at Sotheby's on Sept. 3, in London. In 2005, he hung an image of a spear-toting ancient human pushing a shopping cart in the British Museum, where it remained for several days before being discovered. Girl with Balloon (Diptych), 2005 Girl with Balloon, 2004 - Banksy Explained Sothebys said in a statement to the Financial Times: We have talked with the successful purchaser who was surprised by the story. The piece consists of a half-shredded canvas in an ornate frame bearing a spray-painted image of a girl reaching for a heart-shaped red balloon. Despite the physical graffiti versions being removed by the authorities, the iconic artwork lives on in many different iterations. Obviously, prints which are not in excellent condition do not sell at a premium. A year later, for instance, Sothebys sold the artists Devolved Parliament, 2009, depicting monkeys in the role of British parliamentarians, for 9.9 million at a London auction. The shredder stopped when the canvas was about half-way through; Banksy has said this stop was unplanned and that he intended to shred it completely. Screenprint in colours, 2004, numbered 572/600, with the publisher's blindstamp, Pictures on Walls, London, on wove paper, framed. It claims the event shocked the art world, and "certainly marks the first time in auction history that a work of art automatically shredded itself after coming under the hammer.". Twelve million five hundred thousand. Banksy. Proceeds from the auction, which had a presale estimate range between 2.5 million and 3.5 million, were used to support the hospital and health organizations across the U.K. A video posted after the 2018 sale of Love is in the Bin, Banksy shows how the shredding mechanism was installed in the painting in case it was ever put up for auction.. All rights reserved. Leading up to the sale, the artwork, which the auctioneer Oliver Barker, chairman of Sothebys Europe, termed this great iconic Banksy, had been exhibited old master-style in a sepulchrally lit gallery of its own, not unlike the darkened chamber in which Christies had exhibited the $450.3 million Salvator Mundi in New York in 2017.