There are those who only buy art for profit. And it may be consistent with the views of the estimate announced, four to six million pounds (5.5 to 8.3 million dollars) for
Girl with Balloon
(Young girl with a balloon) renamed
Love is in. the Bin
(Love is in the trash) by Banksy, on his instagram, a few minutes after its sale in 2018, for just over a million pounds. The work, we remember, had been torn to pieces within the auction house, in front of buyers and a market totally dumbfounded. The market had never seen such a media coup before! And three years later, the mystery is still not cleared up ...
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At the time, some had denounced a collusion between the auction house and the British street artist, the latter not being able to ignore the mechanism hidden in the thick frame of the work to cut it into strips, a few minutes after the blow of hammer.
Sotheby's denied outright
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