The famous Banksy shredded painting sold for a record $25 million at an auction in London.
painting that got shredded after someone bought it for $1.4 million just got sold again at auction ... and it set a record price for the mysterious artist.
The gavel went down Thursday at Sotheby's in London and the piece, called"Love is in the Bid," had a winning bid of $25.4 million. It's a record auction price for a Banksy. The art includes the original spray-painted image of a girl reaching up for a heart-shaped balloon on canvas, which was famously shredded, hanging halfway out of an ornate frame.at a Sotheby's auction back in 2018, and once the gavel dropped the canvas slid down the frame, which became a shredder, cutting the work in pieces.
The audience at the OG auction was stunned, and while the buyer was"surprised," they didn't back out of the deal.
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