Banksy’s Shredded Painting Will Be Auctioned for At Least $5.5 Million #Shorts

In 2018, elusive artist Banksy stunned a room full of people @sothebys when he shredded his painting ‘Girl With Balloon’ as soon as the auction gavel came down. It sold then for $1.4 million; Sotheby's estimates the piece, now called 'Love is in the Bin', could sell for over $8 million when it's auctioned again next month.

[askeletonappears]

Banksy: destroys his painting, because he don't want to sell it for ridiculous amounts of money
Everyone: wow, this is art, let's sell it!

[pablozurita]

*_banksy: makes art to insult people who pay insane amounts of money for art_*
_them: haha painting go

[drmarsh]

Modern art is just a safe way for millionaires and billionaires to avoid paying taxes on the money they make.

[kekuKairinwakarimasen]

Main goal: prove that it's stupid to buy expensive kid's like painting

Result: Get auction higher than the salary of your entire family.

[waitwhat]

Next up, " the ashes of Bansky's burnt painting will be sold for 10 million dollars"

[Ethan-pdny]

"The painting was shredded what do we do?"

"We sell it again but this time make it even MORE expensive"

[straightbusta]

His paintings main goal was to make fun/ridicule the people who buy paintings like this for huge money.
Also, Banksy isn't gonna make a single penny from this

[kimmycup]

And it went for 25 million. Somewhere, Banksy is laughing through tears.

[AllTimeFine]

How Can a shredded painting still cost over 1m that’s insane

[LilMissWiccan]

Banksy: *trying to make a change and show a different view *
Everyone: I NEED TO BUY IT

[emperorenk]

The fact their proving his point that the art world is stupid is perfect to me.
Edit: I realize a lot of people thought I meant the painting was stupid, I think it's funny that the painting about art being outrageously priced, is now being sold at an outrageously high price.

[raymartinez]

Mover: Hey why is this frame so thick and heavy?

Dealer: Its for a gimmick and we all will act like we never noticed it and the fame

[LittleBlueOwl]

This is shitting on his statement. The greed is disgusting - they learned nothing!

[zenupmo]

Printing money while shredding it. That's modern art.

[ZeppelinTheRott]

Selling and buying extremely expensive art pieces is a way for the super wealthy to not have to pay taxes on there money... look I to it... its interesting..

[sowhatnow]

It’s crazy how bansky is just sitting there to and we don’t know wtf he looks like.

[pocktgobln]

It's amazing how Banksy has said that he doesn't want his artwork sold in that he doesn't care if it's reserved or not and yet people openly go against this word

[pauldrake]

It sold for over 25 mill. That’s crazy especially when he never wanted his art to sell

[Frenite]

That was quite a prank, but he definitely knew what he was doing because it increased the value.

[AnitaJobby]

Knowing Banksy he's probably hidden a second shredder in there.