Banksy's Girl With Balloon picture self-destructs in shredder seconds after selling for £1m

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Banksy's Girl With Balloon picture self-destructs in shredder seconds after selling for £1m
Horrified Sotheby's bidders watched as the work was destroyed and Banksy reacted saying "Going, going, gone"
A world-famous Bansky artwork was destroyed in a shredder at an auction moments after it was sold for over £1million.
The "Girl With Balloon" canvas had an estimate of £200,000 to £300,000 when it went up for sale at Sotheby's in New York City.
But, once the hammer went down on a winning bid of £860,000 - worth £1.04million when a buyer's premium was added - the piece was shredded by a mechanism hidden in the frame's base.
Stunned art lovers gasped as the piece was destroyed, with parts of it emerging in strips from the frame.
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I'm something of a Banksy myself! Always tagging every Film I see on Reddit! Maybe one of my many works will sell at auction for 999 Trillion WorldDollars one day in the far off future! At that point I'll have been prolific enough to have made a fortune on other ventures but... Hey, you know what they say about WorldDollars and Babes, right? Daddy don't discriminate. Ciao.

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Nice. Now he just quadrupled the price idiots will pay for that exactly like it is.

MJack
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It's only a clever prank. Well done.

funlovinkrimenal
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Yes, it’s definitely worth more now because of the prank and publicity, which means the one who bought it can sell it for more than he/she bought it for.

MultiStor
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Brilliant love his work has a great feel what is wrong with the world.

alanheath