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Proves the point,more money than sense.🙄 Be worth 3 million nowīanksy shredding video reveals how £1m Girl With Balloon stunt was pulled offHere's how Banksy managed to achieve one of the greatest stunts in art history, shredding his famous creation after a £1m sale. The irony of this is, is that he's probably just made the painting infinity more desirable. Everyone's a critic That is some Batman villain shit! 😀 wirth double amount nowīanksy shreds his own Girl With Balloon print - after it sells for £1mIt was typical Banksy, leaving the audience wondering whether he was making a serious point about the impermanence of supposedly timeless works of art or just poking fun at the people who buy such pieces. New video suggests Banksy's Girl With Balloon shredding stunt didn't go to planThe artwork was bought for £1.04 million at auction - but almost as soon as the hammer fell, the canvas was passed through a secret shredder hidden in the frame Good enough for me to see the point.cheers 😊īanksy painting Girl With Red Balloon 'self-destructs' after £1m sale at Sotheby'sGirl With Red Balloon, one of Banksy's best-known images, is shredded moments after being sold at auction in London. 'In rehearsals it worked every time ’: Banksy on incomplete shredding of Girl With Balloon – videoBanksy has posted a video showing he intended for the entire Girl With Balloon work to be destroyed karolcummins oh look.Banksy again. Yawns Pest Control, Banksy's authentication body 😁 Well, the joke is on him then given the buyer apparently doubled her money straight away. ’ BANKSY must have been gutted, not only did the full shred not work but it promptly increased in value, don't think he meant that to happen.īanksy 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. How about giving the cash to someone to change a life ffs?īanksy video shows plan to shred entire Girl With Balloon artworkArtist’s video depicts practice run in which piece is entirely destroyed, alongside words ‘In rehearsals it worked every time. Prime Minister Liz Truss has led tributes to the Queen following her death saying she was 'the rock on which modern Britain was built'. The buyer, who is known only as a female European collector and longtime client of the auction house, said: ‘When the hammer came down last week and the work was shredded, I was at first shocked, but gradually I began to realize that I would end up with my own piece of art history.’ The artwork has been granted a new certificate of authentication by the artist’s studio.'God save The King': Queen was 'the rock on which modern Britain was built', PM Liz Truss says Sotheby’s said last week that the buyer had decided to keep the partially shredded artwork, now renamed Love is in the Bin (2018).

‘Pest Control said very clearly: the frame is integral to the artwork, which it was, just not in the sort of way that we thought,’ Branczik said. Branczik said that the auction house asked the artist’s studio Pest Control if the frame could be removed, but the request was refused. Sotheby’s head of contemporary art in Europe Alex Branczik said that the sale of the work included stipulations that it be placed in the evening sale, and hung in the room. In an interview with The Art Newspaper, Sotheby’s staffers maintained that they had not been in on the stunt. And it also includes footage from the evening of the auction, with the button pressed on a remote control, triggering the concealed shredder. But now the artist says that the entire artwork was supposed to shred.Ī video titled ‘Shred the Love (the director’s cut)’ released by the enigmatic street artist shows a ‘test run’ with the artwork fully destroyed, accompanied by the caption, ‘In rehearsals, it worked every time.’ The film shows the rigged frame, with a secret shredder embedded inside, being constructed in Banksy’s studio. Girl with Balloon (2006) appeared to drop from its faux-gilt frame, shredding over half of itself into ribbons, just after selling for GBP£860,000. The partial self-destruction of a Banksy painting at a Sotheby’s auction in London last week was the result of a misfire, the artist has claimed.