Posted on 10/22/2020 6:18:55 AM PDT by C19fan
An oil painting by Banksy parodying a Claude Monet masterpiece sold in London yesterday for £7.6million.
The price achieved by Sotheby's for Show Me the Monet is the second highest yet for the mysterious British artist.
Five collectors pushed the winning bid to £7,551,600 against an expectation of between £3.5-5million.
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I remember Banksy from back in the 80s. He used to paint shadows on buildings that made you look before you could stop yourself.
The emperor has no clothes ...
Yeah, that’s about it.
Banksy is commonly believed to be Robin Gunningham, born on 28 July 1973 in Yate, 12 miles (19 km) from Bristol. Several of Gunningham's associates and former schoolmates at Bristol Cathedral School have corroborated this, and in 2016, a study found that the incidence of Banksy's works correlated with the known movements of Gunningham. According to The Sunday Times, Gunningham began employing the name Robin Banks, which eventually became Banksy. Two cassette sleeves featuring his art work from 1993, for the Bristol band Mother Samosa, exist with his signature.In June 2017, DJ Goldie referred to Banksy as "Rob".
There has been alternative speculation that Banksy is:
Robert Del Naja (a.k.a. 3D), frontman of the trip hop band Massive Attack. Del Naja had been a graffiti artist during the 1980s prior to forming the band and had previously been identified as a personal friend of Banksy. The study of the two artists' lives suggests that this is not likely. Jamie Hewlett, English comic book artist and designer best known for the comic Tank Girl and the virtual band Gorillaz. Joanna Brooks, Banksy's publicist, denied this claim.
In 2020, users on Twitter began to speculate that former Art Attack presenter Neil Buchanan was Banksy. This was denied by Buchanan's publicist.
In October 2014, an internet hoax circulated that Banksy had been arrested and his identity revealed.
I should think he would have had to shed his anonymity in order to collect his check.
Why?
I guess if he took it in bitcoin, maybe not.
I'm sure that his identity will be well known to the UK Inland Revenue people.
Yes there's certainly that also.
I guess that there’s hope for that black velvet Elvis painting out there in my parking shelter.
How depressing. The prevailing dystopia attitude is loud in Banksy. Why would anyone pay any money for that monstrosity?
During WWII van Meegeren personally scammed self-styled art critic Hermann Goering, with one of Van Meegeren's "authentic Vermeers."
After the war, Van Meegeren was tried for having collaborated with the Germans by trading of Dutch cultural treasures, but after admitting to the scam, was tried for fraud and forgery. The trail was highly publicized and van Meegeren become something of a folk hero for having scammed the occupying Germans.
Due to the publicity, Van Meegeren's work increased in interest and value to the point that after his death, his own son, Jacques, created works that he fraudulently passed of as those of his father.
Is there some tax write off for paying these high amounts for a painting?
There are so many people you can paint that the price should never be this high.
Marcello Barenghi is one who can paint
https://www.youtube.com/c/marcellobarenghi/videos
Better yet....
How To Paint A House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhKMFqu0Nfw
Cool story. Thanks!
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