Banksy Art self-destructs after selling for more than a million dollars

This is not the first time that Banksy has participated in the rodeo and although it was, well, this rodeo would be covered with priceless graffiti. He knows when he needs to turn the bar around. Like Friday night, when Sotheby's auctioned the famous 2006 work of the famous anonymous street artist "Girl with a Balloon" for more than $ 1.2 million. After the closing of the auction, the coin would have sounded an alarm and the canvas slowly began to slide down … in a shredder mounted under the picture, torn in small strips, a wonderful Banksy moment that you can see yourself on the pictures below.

"It looks like we just got Banksy-ed," said Alex Branczik, European director of contemporary art at Sotheby's. Art Newspaper. "He is arguably the greatest British street artist, and tonight we saw a little Banksy genius."

According to the financial report Time, the seller who sells the coin has acquired "Balloon Girl" directly to the artist. Sotheby's said in a statement: "We talked to the winning buyer who was surprised by the story. We are discussing next steps. Several media have postulated that the assault required that Banksy (or one of his agents) be present in the room to remotely activate the shredder. Report the Art Newspaper"A man dressed in black sunglasses and wearing a hat was seen fighting with security guards near the entrance to Sotheby's shortly after the incident."