Banksy painting ‘self-destructs’ on podium

'Meanwhile at the same Sotheby’s sale, something else happened. The wonderful British painter Jenny Saville achieved a world-record price for a living female artist with her superb self-portrait “Propped”, selling at £9.5m. No tricks, no jokes, just sublimely good work. Yet the whole world is talking about a man-prank. Perhaps it is indeed true, as others have said, that we get the art market we deserve.'

- Jan Dalley

rehearsals?

how many real images did he destroy?

lol

seems to have the most info: news.artnet.com/opinion/kenny-schachter-on-banksy-at-sothebys-stunt-1372921

"someone from Banksy’s publicity team contacted Sotheby’s to sell the painting Girl With a Balloon, but that the consignment came with stipulations, more or less as follows: a. the painting had to be hung in the salesroom during the sale; b. it needed to be sold in the latter half of the proceedings; and, c. it wasn’t to be examined out of the frame. As it’s not the norm to hang a relatively inconsequentially valued painting in the room (the pre-sale estimate was £200,000 to £300,000) during an evening auction, the house replied no.

The consignor countered by offering to pay a seller’s fee of around 5 percent. (That this person wasn’t automatically charged to place the work in the auction indicates that this was not a new relationship, and I’m told this PR liaison acts as a regular, go-to conduit for Banksy to feed art into the auction stream). The response from Sotheby’s came back again in the negative, at which point the consignor raised the ante to around 10 percent, and Sotheby’s acceded—the deal was done. The auction house certainly suspected something was afoot, by the very nature of the dialogue leading up to the sale, but I can assure you that is all they knew."


Banksy Wasn’t Critiquing Capitalism, He Was Taking Part In It

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/banksy-sothebys-shred-art-capitalism_us_5bbb874be4b0876edaa07478

I mean -  I'm all for artists making a good living... its just the hypocrisy that bums me out

Hmmm. I think Banksy is one of the good ones and to accuse him of hippocracy is a bit strong. Jamie Reid saying he would respect him if he’d given it all to the homeless. How does he know he hasn’t? 

hi roy.... yes i get that and thats great and it's also great he can fund other projects. i only wish he wasn't leaning in to the money/art narrative again. there's not much he can do at this point in his career to untangle his work from the auction world... but i wish he would at least not continue to draw attention to it without offering up more meaningful commentary at least

this doesn't mean that I dont still love and admire all he's done. i just didn't like this so much

higher than the photos on the website?

yeah on the Outdoor section

Is this sorted mr?

I am agree with you too.
This bizness affair ( it is not but could not find the term ) , well this prank, kind of « 
Playing with art and money, mocking all theses rich collectors etc .. « is not his best from far. It seems a bit old school and hyped too at the same time , in fact, we, the people, are not very well concerned by that , apart gossips and readers of the Daily or the Sunnsaying : « 
Oh my god he destroyed a billion kkkkk « 
The don’t care about the act himself ( from far too of the Dadaists movement )   , about the art, just billion of kkkkk !
Who is concerned apart scandal press ?
Not me.
But I still believe that he helps a lot of people, and maybe we could consider this as a buzz mistake, a mistake .
The real art event of this period ( since mai 68 ) is without contest to have been exposed at the Brit. Museum.
A real good one !