Banksy donates refugee crisis paintings worth £1.2m to hospital charity

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Banksy donates refugee crisis paintings worth £1.2m to hospital charity
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Paintings have been on display in Banksy's Walled Off hotel in Bethlehem for the past three years

head of contemporary art for Europe, said: “In Mediterranean Sea View 2017, Banksy corrupts three found oil paintings with his own witty reworkings to create something that, while posing as a 19th-century seascape, spotlights one of the burning issues of the 21st century.

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