Banksy's work honoring healthcare workers on the front line in the fight against coronavirus has been installed in a hospital in the United Kingdom and will be auctioned for the benefit of the British health care system, the Press agency announced on Wednesday. association.
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The black and white work of the famous British street artist depicts a boy in overalls, kneeling, brandishing the doll of a super heroine, a nurse wearing a cape, mask and apron decorated with a red cross, the only touch of color. In a basket near the child, we see Batman and Spider-Man, neglected.
Entitled " Game Changer ", the approximately one square meter work is hung in a corridor of the Southampton hospital. " Thank you for everything you do. I hope this will brighten up the place a bit, even if it is in black and white, ”the artist wrote in a note to the staff of the establishment.
Once the containment is lifted, the work will be exhibited to the public, before being sold at auction. The funds raised will be donated to the British health care system, the NHS, a Banksy spokesperson said. Previous works by the artist were sold for several million dollars.
The United Kingdom, one of the countries most grieving by the coronavirus pandemic, recorded Wednesday 30,076 deaths - a number which exceeds 32,000 if we add the deaths for which Covid-19 disease is the probable cause but not confirmed by a test.
