Sotheby's has confirmed that the buyer, a long-standing female client, still wants to take the work for the agreed price.ĭepicting a girl reaching towards a bright red heart-shaped balloon, the spray paint and acrylic on canvas Girl With Balloon is one of Banksy's best-known images. The new half-shredded artwork has been renamed Love Is In The Bin after being granted certification by Pest Control, Banksy's authentication body. It then cuts to the now world-famous auction, where a pair of hands presses a button in a black box to set off the destruction as soon as the hammer goes down. Street artist posted a video to his website. The new three-minute-long video - the second to be released by the artist giving details on the stunt - shows a hooded figure constructing the shredder in a workshop. Banksy reveals he planned to shred the ENTIRE Girl With Balloon artwork moments after it was sold for 1million as he shares video of his practice run. Some people think the auction house were in on it, they weren't."
Posting on Instagram, the anonymous artist said: "Some people think it didn't really shred. In a new video, entitled Shred The Love, The Director's Cut, Banksy has revealed that he carried out rehearsals for the headline-grabbing prank, and that in practice runs the secret shredder hidden inside the painting's Victorian-style frame had "worked every time".įootage of a test run shows a Girl With Balloon print passing through the shredder in full, with none of the canvas remaining intact. Onlookers at a Sotheby's auction earlier this month were left gobsmacked when, just moments after selling to a European collector for more than £1m, the famous artwork "self-destructed", with the bottom half reduced to strips dangling from the bottom of the frame.
Having it partially shredded and stuck in there is even a more poignant statement.Street artist Banksy has posted a new video about the shredding of his famous Girl With Balloon painting, implying that it was supposed to have been completely destroyed in the stunt. What price beauty? Inside the ludicrous, eye-watering world of the modern art marketLast month, Banksy ’s 2006 painting Girl with a Balloon self-shredded having just gone under the hammer at Sotheby’s for £1.īanksy shredding 'did not go to plan'The art ist confirms the canvas was supposed to shred in full, not just p art ially. Here’s a recap of what happened in the intense first episode. The Little Drummer Girl episode 1 recap: What happened in Little Drummer Girl?THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL aired last night on BBC One. Yawns Pest Control, Banksy's authentication body 😁īanksy works worth £12m seized from 'unauthorised' exhibition in former Belgian supermarketSome 58 pieces, including Girl With Balloon, were shown ‘illegally’ Art World abuzz - Saudi holds Jesus hostage! Salvator Mundi Well, the joke is on him then given the buyer apparently doubled her money straight away. New video suggests Banksy's Girl With Balloon shredding stunt didn't go to planThe art work 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 reveals he meant to shred entire £1m Girl With Balloon painting'In rehearsals it worked every time.' A new Banksy video shows the art ist's headline-grabbing stunt did not go entirely to plan. 'In rehearsals it worked every time ’: Banksy on incomplete shredding of Girl With Balloon – video Banksy has posted a video showing he intended for the entire Girl With Balloon work to be destroyed karolcummins oh look.Banksy again. Perhaps she has a rabbit? Theresa May is believed to have bought the frame to keep Tory MP's expenses documents in😂😂 Woman to keep shredded £1m BanksyThe anonymous European woman who bought the Girl With Balloon painting will pay the £1m price.
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Woman to keep shredded £1m Banksy 'In rehearsals it worked every time ’: Banksy on incomplete shredding of Girl With Balloon – video New video suggests Banksy's Girl With Balloon shredding stunt didn't go to planīANKSY 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.
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