“It appears we just got Banksy-ed.” So said Alex Branczik, the head of contemporary European art at the auction house Sotheby’s recently when the painting, Girl With Balloon—which had just sold for $1,936,000—started to self-shred. The mysterious artist posted the following video of the incident on Instagram with a quote from Picasso, “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
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