How did the world’s most famous street artist manage to shred — or rather half shred — one of his iconic “Girl With Balloon” paintings moments after it had sold for $1.4 million at auction? Banksy’s remotely shredded “Girl With Balloon” was meant to poke fun at the excesses of the auction market. Back in 2004, a stencilled image of a young girl releasing a red heart-shaped balloon appeared on a wall on London’s South Bank. One of the smaller, 20-inch-high edition paintings of “Girl With Balloon” sold in March for 344,750 pounds ($480,000) at Bonhams in London, according to the Artnet Price Database. And what about the identity of the man in the salesroom who remotely activated the shredding device?

Source: thestar October 07, 2018 23:48 UTC