The artwork Show me the Monet Banksy is on Wednesday for over 7.5 million pounds (over 8.3 million euros) auctioned. It is the second highest amount paid so far for a work by the street artist.
The highest amount ever at an auction for any of Banksy’s works is £ 9.9 million.
Work Show me the Monet, which Banksy created in 2005, went under the hammer on Wednesday at the auction house Sotheby’s. The painting, a parody of the work of the famous artist Claude Monet (1840-1926), shows a Japanese bridge over a pond in which shopping carts and a pylon have been dumped.
“The vandalized painting shows life today,” Banksy said of his work fifteen years ago. “The great damage done to our environment is not due to graffiti artists or drunken teenagers, but to large companies. It is precisely there that people work who hang paintings of landscapes on their walls and tell how the rest of the world should behave. . “
The artwork is part of a series of parodies. Banksy also painted variations on works by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987), among others.
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