LONDON: An oil painting by British street artist Banksy parodying a Claude Monet masterpiece sold in London on Wednesday for £7.6 million, the second highest price at auction for the mysterious artist. The oil on canvas work, “Show Me the Monet,” a modern take on Monet’s impressionist classic “The Water-Lily Pond,” sold for £7,551,600 ($9.8M, 8.4 million euros) at Sotheby’s following a bidding battle. The sale comes a year after a Banksy painting depicting the British parliament populated by chimpanzees smashed the record for the street artist by fetching nearly £9.9 million. The painting transforms Monet’s masterpiece depicting a Japanese-style bridge in his famous garden at Giverny into a modern-day fly-tipping spot. “Recent years have seen seminal Banksys come to auction, but this is one of his strongest, and most iconic, to appear yet,” he added.

Source: Manila Times October 22, 2020 16:38 UTC