Banksy’s self-shredding artwork gets a cheeky new name

Banksy’s self-shredding Girl with Balloon has left quite the mark on the art world.

Not only has the work become the subject of memes, but it’s been described as the artist’s greatest work, and its value has likely jumped sharply following the incident.

So it’d be mad if the buyer of the $1.4 million work didn’t decide to keep it, which is exactly what she will be doing.

“When the hammer came down last week and the work was shredded, I was at first shocked, but gradually I began to realise that I would end up with my own piece of art history,” the buyer, identified as a female European collector and a long-standing client of Sotheby’s, said in a statement. Read more…

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