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The auction house says she did not know anything about it. The artist does not like to show his face. The buyer is a mystery. So, for that matter, it's the seller.
The surprising waterfall at Sotheby's in London on Friday set fire to the art world. The image of a girl looking for a heart-shaped red balloon had just sold for $ 1.4 million.
Moments later, a shredder hidden inside the frame is shaking, the canvas has slipped and at least a portion of it has ended in thongs.
Sotheby's has claimed that it was "Banksy & # 39; d".
On Saturday, Banksy posted a video on Instagram to show how he built a shredder for the 2006 "Girl with a Balloon" painting.
"The urge to destroy is also a creative impulse," Banksy writes, citing Picasso.
But the video did not answer everyone's questions – not less than the involvement of the auction house.
"I do not want to let Banksy go through the whole thing, and I would not want to let him go either without anyone being on it," CNN RJ Rushmore, a curator of street art, told CNN. Brooklyn. "But whatever the" truth ", it does not change the performance for me."
Was Banksy in the room during the auction?
Banksy, who has been hiding his identity for more than 20 years, could have been in the room at the time of the sale, eventually overseeing the entire performance while filming on his phone.
The images on the Internet show a middle-aged man wearing thick-rimmed black glasses filming the moment the picture is torn.
Shortly after, the man is seen being escorted out of the room.
Was it Banksy?
In 2016, scientists at Queen Mary University in London used geographic profiling, based on the artist's movements, to identify him as a man named Robin Gunningham.
The authors conceded that their study did not provide definitive evidence.
The preview man at the Friday auction presents similarities with Gunningham, letting the Internet and the art-noses suggest that it was about him.
The angle at which the man was filming could also correspond to the angle used in the video version of Banksy.
Banksy is known for his discreet collaborators who work with him. It is also possible that people are placed in the room to record the event.
Erika Rossi, an Italian gallerist who was at the auction, said that there was a young man who had been filming diligently from the beginning and who was sitting in front of her. She also saw a man "arguing with security" after the auction.
Sotheby's says it was not in the waterfall
Is it really credible that Banksy gives up the table with an integrated battery remover, remotely controlled, which would activate 12 years later? At the very least, would not the battery be exhausted?
Commentators also pointed out that Sotheby's staff was casually taking the chart off having acted so strangely. Were they not afraid of the reactivation of the sharp blades or its explosion? In addition, the frame was extremely thick and the shredder would have added weight. Were they not curious to know why it was so heavy?
"We had no prior knowledge of this event and were not in any way involved," said Sotheby's in a statement.
Will the painting go up or down in value?
One thing is certain, the painting can be "damaged", but the artistic event will remain in the history of the art and the price could soar.
"I do not know if the painting will have more value or less, but it will certainly be its most famous," said Steve Lazarides, former Banksy gallerist.
"One could say that work is now more valuable," said Alex Branczik, head of contemporary art at Sotheby's, Europe.
"It's certainly the first job to be shredded spontaneously at the end of an auction."
Sotheby's stated that she was talking to the seller "who was surprised at the story" about how to proceed.
"Millionaire sells a painting for a million to other millionaires, then destroys it," wrote in an article on Instagram a street artist friend and friend of Banksy, Ben Eine, known around the world for his letters bold. "You're going to have to explain this one?!?
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