Banksy take on a Monet painting bid for record US$9.8mShow Me the Monet, sold to an unidentified bidder at Sotheby’s in London. Banksy’s playful take on a famous Impressionist painting has sold at auction for £7.6 million(US$9.8 million), the second-highest price ever paid for a work by the British street artist. “Show Me the Monet” sold to an unidentified bidder at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday evening, surpassing its upper pre-sale estimate of 5 million pounds. In the 2005 work, Banksy added abandoned shopping carts and an orange traffic cone to Claude Monet’s image of water lilies in his garden at Giverny. Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s European head of contemporary art, said the work was one of the “strongest and most iconic” Banksy works to appear at auction.

Source: The Standard October 22, 2020 11:15 UTC