Banksy’s Secret to Increasing a Painting’s Value? Destroy It
His painting, which was partially destroyed in a 2018 prank, could sell for as much as $8.3 million in a new auction
In 2018, a painting by Banksy began to self-destruct while it was on the auction block at Sotheby’s in London.
Just after the spray-painted artwork of a girl holding a balloon sold for about £1 million ($1.4 million) an alarm went off and the work slowly began to fall through a shredder hidden inside the frame. After it was about halfway through, the shredder stopped—or jammed.