Watch again: Banksy's 'Love is in the Bin' sells at auction

A Banksy artwork that half-shredded itself has sold for £18.6 million - four times its estimate.

Art-lovers were shocked when the then-titled 'Girl with Balloon' was sucked into a concealed shredder as the hammer fell following a bid of £1.04million pounds at a 2018 auction at Sotheby's three years ago.

Re-named 'Love is in the Bin' by the anonymous street artist, the picture returned for sale today with a price estimate of up to £6million.

[kellyhempshall]

Imagine being the auctioneer having to deal with all those million pound bids like its a normal day!

[lexi]

I love Banksy. in my parallel universe, i would definitely be owning several pieces from him. congrats to the buyer.

[takingabreak]

Thought provoking stuff.
Love IS in the bin .
😂🤣😂🤣 Howling 🤣🤣🤣🤣😜Love a good Bin 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Danwelltherd]

The same day that the earthshot prize (mega as it is) offers a third of the ‘value’ of a piece of shredded art to support ideas to save the world from climate change

[tkraft]

Why do they use suck gaudy frames in that museum, and sadly you can’t change the frame on that $25 mill 😂. Such a cool piece of art tho. Should’ve shredded the whole damn thing.

[stocktonjoans]

this is the very antithisis of everything banksy stands for, bunch of wnakers

[youcantsay]

Hang on...I've got a shit smeared piece of toilet paper! That must be worth at least 2 million....🤔