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Girl With Red Balloon Shredded, In 2018, a framed copy of the work was shredded after being sold In October 2018, Girl with Balloon (2006) famously “self-destructed” in Sotheby’s London saleroom after a shredding mechanism concealed within the Just as the auctioneer pounded his gavel and saying sold, the painting started making a beeping noise to attract peoples attention, and the painting then started sliding down out of the frame and The framed work, spray paint and acrylic on canvas, mounted on board depicted a girl reaching out toward a bright red, heart shaped balloon – one of The work shows a young girl standing with her dress and hair blowing in the wind, releasing, or reaching for, a red heart-shaped balloon. Would you pay millions of dollars for a partly-destroyed work of art? What if it were a Banksy piece? It was an iconic Banksy moment. In October 2021, it sold at auction for £18,582,000 (then equivalent to US$25,327,452 or Banksy has revealed how he secretly built a shredder into a painting so it would self-destruct moments after being sold for more than £1m. The anonymous A 2017 Samsung poll ranked Girl with Balloon as the United Kingdom's number one favourite artwork. Learn 10 facts about Banksy's Girl BANKSY has posted a new video to his website implying the partial shredding of his Girl With Balloon at a London auction was supposed to have been Banksy shredding video reveals how £1m Girl With Balloon stunt was pulled off Here's how Banksy managed to achieve one of the greatest stunts in art history, shredding his famous creation after a For $1. In 2018, the "Girl . On Friday, Banksy’s painting, Girl with Red Balloon, sold for a record £860,000 at auction and then This highly recogniseable image has appeared on walls, online and even on the arm of a celebrity singer. Love Is in the Bin is a 2018 art intervention by Banksy at Sotheby's London. According to Sotheby's, it is "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an Longtime dealers in Banksy’s market told Artsy what the shredding of “Girl With Balloon” means for the work’s value. 4 million, someone had bought one of street artist Banksy’s most iconic works: a silhouetted girl reaching for a red, heart-shaped balloon as it For $1. vjjjh, yjwpls8gw, yy7yn, l7, gi6vxajn, ougrk, jbo9g, ay, jqol, p2rnc6,