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Banksy

Banksy (Born 1974) is active/lives in New York, California / England, United Kingdom.  Banksy is known for Graffiti art with political themes.

"Banksy Painting Self-Destructs After Fetching $1.4 Million at Sotheby’s," By Scott Reyburn, Oct. 6, 2018, The New York Times, Art & Design section
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LONDON — The British street artist Banksy pulled off one of his most spectacular pranks on Friday night, when one of his trademark paintings appeared to self-destruct at Sotheby’s in London after selling for $1.4 million at auction.

The work, Girl With Balloon, a 2006 spray paint on canvas, was the last lot of Sotheby’s “Frieze Week” evening contemporary art sale. After competition between two telephone bidders, it was hammered down by the auctioneer Oliver Barker for 1 million pounds, more than three times the estimate and a new auction high for a work solely by the artist, according to Sotheby’s.

“Then we heard an alarm go off,” Morgan Long, the head of art investment at the London-based advisory firm Fine Art Group, who was sitting in the front row of the room, said in   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 18215 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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