Sotheby’s Auction House, serving in London, the capital of England, held a new auction event. While many works found buyers for significant sums in the event named Contemporary Art Auction, the most striking piece in the auction was the self-destruction of the self-destructed portrait of The Girl with the Baloon, whose identity was sold for 1.1 million pounds in 2018. Aşk’tı Aşk (Love is in the Bin) by Bansky.
Experts thought that the work titled Aşk in the Garbage would be sold in the range of 4-6 million pounds. However, an unexpected event occurred at the auction. Enthusiasts chasing the anonymous artist’s work increased the price of the work to 18 million 582 thousand pounds (about 24.6 million dollars). This situation went down in history as a record price.
Here is that painting that sold for £18 million
There is an important connection between the painting named Love in the Trash and the painting The Girl with the Red Balloon. So much so that the self-destructed version of The Girl with the Red Balloon was Love in the Trash. In the statements made for this painting by Alex Brenczik, Sotheby’s Head of Contemporary Art; “Since Banksy’s ‘The Girl with the Baloon’ self-destructed, Banksy has created a global sensation that has become a phenomenon. On that unforgettable night, Banksy created a work of art rather than smashing it to pieces. He is considered the heir to a venerable legacy of anti-artism.”
In the statements made by Emma Baker, Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Specialist, it was stated that “Everyone thought that Banksy destroyed his own work during the auction. But he created a new work of art. That’s why we reached this conclusion today and it was definitely a successful work …”
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