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Recently, British artist Banksy’s painting “Show Me the Monet” sold for 7.6 million pounds (8.5 million euros), according to Sotheby’s in Britain. The painting is part of a series of “Crowd Oils” paintings, in which the street artist transforms major classical paintings into parody, including this simulating “Water Lilies” painting by Claude Monet. Five art collectors competed in an online auction for 9 minutes, and one of them snatched the painting with this amount, which is the second highest price in history for a Banksy work. A figure that could not break the 2019 record set by Banksy’s “monkey Parliament”, which is 9.9 million pounds (11.1 million euros).
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“Shu Me the Monet” is a painting dating back to 2005, while Monet’s original painting consists of a Japanese bridge over a pond dotted with water lilies, and Banksy placed five orange cones and an old shopping cart in his water. Sotheby’s European contemporary art official, Alex Pranchik, explained that Banksy expresses, through this painting, “society’s contempt for the environment in the face of the wasteful waste of consumerism.”
