Banksy sale of a Monet parody confirms what the French always knew and the Americans suspected:
The British are blind.
Their taste in clothes ran to the silly, their Young Btitish artists were a form of Emperors new clothes, but the Banksy sale takes the cake as the grand prize for the the aesthetically challenged, pathetic.
Banksy’s “Show Me The Monet” interpretation of Claude Monet’s water lily painting has certainly lived up to its name by selling for more than £7.5m at an auction earlier this week.
The painting was created in 2005 and adds abandoned shopping trolleys and a traffic cone to the impressionist painter’s famous garden scene. It was sold at a Sotheby’s event in London on Wednesday (October 21) following a tense nine-minute bidding war between five collectors. Despite having an estimated worth of £3.5-5 million, it fetched for a staggering £7,551,600.
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