The painting that British street artist Banksy purposely shredded during a 2018 auction sold Thursday for $25.4 million—18 times what the buyer of the pre-shredded piece paid for it
shredded during a previous auction
sold Thursday to an anonymous Asian collector for $25.4 million at Sotheby’s in London, setting a new record for the artist at auction. Banksy famously pranked the art world three years ago when he hid a remote-controlled paper shredder in the gilt frame of one of his paintings so it could self-destruct right after Sotheby’s London auctioned it off.
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