Banksy’s shredded artwork sells for £18.5m in record for artist

A partially shredded Banksy painting has sold for £18.5 million (NZ$36m) at auction. His artwork Love Is In The Bin was sold in London by auction house Sotheby’s, which said the price was a record for the street artist. The painting, originally titled Girl With Balloon, hit headlines in 2018 when it partially self-destructed at the conclusion of a previous auction in which it had been sold for £1.1m. The canvas was passed through a secret shredder hidden inside the large frame, leaving the bottom half in tatters and only a solitary red balloon left on a white background in the frame. outperformed its price estimate of between £4m and £6m.