Banksy picture shred video5/12/2023 Julien’s Auctions is the world-record breaking auction house. Mr English, who said he had spent time in Palestine with Banksy, added: "Then of course I'll sell the whitewash painting for a million dollars. The artwork sold for $600,000 plus the buyer's premium, bringing the total to $730,000, said Darren Julien, of Julien's Auctions. We're tired of people stealing our stuff off the streets and re-selling it so I'm just going to buy everything I can get my hands on and whitewash it." I'm going to paint over it and just include it in one of the walls in my house. "I'm going to paint it white again, I'm done. "My idea for this painting is to whitewash it for my good pal Banksy, I only wish I could've spent more money for it," he said. Mr English bought the painting, which was auctioned by Julien's in Los Angeles, for $730,000 (£561,000). Slave Labour, which depicts a young child on his knees at a sewing machine, producing a string of Union Jack bunting, was painted on the side of the bargain store in Wood Green in 2012. Ron English says he plans to paint over the north London mural because street art "shouldn't be bought and sold". "We can’t guarantee that our Banksy’S will automatically shred or explode but they will sell to the highest bidder."- Darren JulienĪnd the result of this sale was as astonishing and bizarre as the end of the Sotheby’s auction with its shredding event.Ī piece of Banksy street art painted on the side of a Poundland sold to a US artist, Ron English for more than half a million pounds £561,000 - but the buyer has vowed to whitewash it in protest. The attached picture sold for £561,000.īANKSY’S SEMINAL PROTEST artWORK slave labour HEADs TO JULIEN’S AUCTIONS Street & Contemporary Art Auction In a cheeky reference to this seminal art event Julien’s issued a press release recently to publicize its own sale of a Banksy in an auction of leading Street Artists. Shortly after the hammer came down on the item, however, the canvas began to pass through a shredder installed in the frame.īanksy posted an image on Instagram of the shredded work dangling from the bottom of the frame with the title “Going, going, gone … ” Girl With Balloon was the final item in an auction at Sotheby’s in London and its sale price equalled the artist’s previous auction record of £1.04m. It’s a very creative and witty way to make a statement, and to get the public’s attention.”īanksy’s audacious stunt, arranging for one of his best-known works to self-destruct after being sold in a high profile auction at Sotheby’s for just over £1m, seems to be a nose-thumbing to the art world establishment. I think we are going to see more of these types of bold and daring displays in the art world in the coming years. We recently sold the Banksy mural ‘Slave Labour’ for over $700,000 to the artist Ron English, who then claimed he was going to paint over it and resell it for even more money. Mitchell Kaba, Director of Contemporary and Street Art at Julien’s adds: “Actions like this keep the art market interesting and exciting. We are currently planning our next street art auction for this coming April.” We can’t ever prove that the emails between me and Pest Control gave birth to the idea, but it certainly makes me wonder! We at Julien’s are honoured to have sold a lot of Banksy’s works and to be a small part of the artist’s journey. It has certainly worked to further raise his profile and increase the value of his works. Pest Control wrote back asking: “Is this some sort of joke?”ĭarren Julien says: “One can only wonder if my email to Pest Control in 2015 about destroying artworks might have triggered his astonishing response …to actually destroy one of his paintings as a coup de théâtre. In the email exchange Darren Julien suggested the idea of destroying artworks. This timeframe tallies with an email exchange between Darren Julien CEO of Julien’s Auctions in the US and ‘Pest Control’ the elusive Banksy authentication service in the UK. A video Banksy posted on Instagram after the ‘Girl With Balloon’ picture shredding event at Sotheby’s shows the shredding mechanism being assembled into the frame and states that the frame was constructed “A few years ago.”
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