A Piece Of SHIT SHREDDED Artwork Sold For 25 MILLION Dollars At Auction Today...Question Answered! MONEY LAUNDERING!

Some gangster posing as a qualified buyer with 25M in dirty money to spend. See?

The art world is a front for a lot of crime, including money laundering!

no kidding.
$25m for that ugly piece of trash!!!

Please tell me the real elite view this sort of nonsense with the same disdain as regular folk.

25 million can buy REAL art, REAL antiques, REAL property, even a decent car.

Hunter is delighted to hear this.

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Shredded Banksy artwork sells for $25.4 million at auction


LONDON (AP) — A work by British street artist Banksy that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold at auction three years ago fetched almost 18.6 million pounds ($25.4 million) on Thursday — a record for the artist, and close to 20 times its pre-shredded price.

“Love is in the Bin” was offered by Sotheby’s in London, with a presale estimate of 4 million pounds to 6 million pounds ($5.5 million to $8.2 million).

After a 10-minute bidding war involving nine bidders in the saleroom, online and by phone, it sold for three times the high estimate to an undisclosed buyer. The sale price of 18,582,000 pounds ($25,383,941) includes an auction-house fee known as a buyer’s premium.

The piece consists of a half-shredded canvas in an ornate frame bearing a spray-painted image of a girl reaching for a heart-shaped red balloon.

When it last sold at Sotheby’s in October 2018, the piece was known as “Girl With Balloon.” Just as an anonymous female European buyer made the winning bid — for 1 million pounds ($1.4 million) — a hidden shredder embedded in the frame by Banksy whirred to life, leaving half the canvas hanging from the frame in strips.

Sotheby’s received some criticism at the time for failing to spot the hidden shredder. But the 2018 buyer decided to go through with the purchase, a decision that was vindicated on Thursday as the work’s price soared.

The work quickly became one of Banksy’s most famous, and Sotheby’s sent it on tour to cities including New York and Hong Kong before Thursday’s auction.





WTF is the world coming to?

Money laundering. Plain and simple.

The art world is a front for a lot of crime, including money laundering!

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Shredded Banksy artwork sells for $25.4 million at auction


LONDON (AP) — A work by British street artist Banksy that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold at auction three years ago fetched almost 18.6 million pounds ($25.4 million) on Thursday — a record for the artist, and close to 20 times its pre-shredded price.

“Love is in the Bin” was offered by Sotheby’s in London, with a presale estimate of 4 million pounds to 6 million pounds ($5.5 million to $8.2 million).

After a 10-minute bidding war involving nine bidders in the saleroom, online and by phone, it sold for three times the high estimate to an undisclosed buyer. The sale price of 18,582,000 pounds ($25,383,941) includes an auction-house fee known as a buyer’s premium.

The piece consists of a half-shredded canvas in an ornate frame bearing a spray-painted image of a girl reaching for a heart-shaped red balloon.

When it last sold at Sotheby’s in October 2018, the piece was known as “Girl With Balloon.” Just as an anonymous female European buyer made the winning bid — for 1 million pounds ($1.4 million) — a hidden shredder embedded in the frame by Banksy whirred to life, leaving half the canvas hanging from the frame in strips.







WTF is the world coming to?

Money laundering. Plain and simple. It's amazing to watch.

I am a lover of art. This is disgusting on so many levels.

Please tell me the real elite view this sort of nonsense with the same disdain as regular folk.

25 million can buy REAL art, REAL antiques, REAL property, even a decent car.