This may be a bank trash can – but it’s gotten around 10 10 million.
The oil painting by a well-known street artist, depicting an idyllic Cloud Monet scene surrounded by carved objects, has received the second highest price paid for one of his works.
One of the new works in classic paintings, which BNXI called the “Crude Oil” collection, is “Show Monet”, which was expected to fetch 9 9.9 million to 5 5.5 million at auction on Wednesday.
That surpassed expectations on Wednesday evening when it sold for far 9.89 million at an undisclosed bid at Sotheby’s in London.
“It came after a lively and competitive 9-minute bidding battle between customers around the world,” Sotheby’s said.
The only other Banksy to sell more was made by his British Parliament painting chimpanzees, which sold more than 12 million a year ago.
In “Show Me Me Monet”, Bxxi transforms Monit’s masterpiece into a modern-day fly-tipping spot in his famous garden at Giverni – a fleeting shopping trolley and a fluorescent orange traffic cone.
In 2005, when the painting was done, the officially unrecognized mysterious artist said, “These vandalized paintings reflect life as it is now.
“We no longer live in a world like Constable’s Heaven and, if you do, there’s probably a tourist camp on the other side of the hill.”
According to Alex Branzic, European head of Sotheby’s of contemporary art, he is currently working on appearing at auction, making him one of the “strongest and most prestigious”.
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