Post by hankpank on Nov 3, 2019 11:29:03 GMT
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/contemporary-curated/banksy-the-drinker
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"The Drinker was originally erected in March 2004 in a small square off Shaftsbury Avenue in London, but was subsequently stolen by the leader of the rebellious art group Art Kieda, Andy Link (known colloquially as AK47). The media coverage surrounding Banksy and AK47’s controversial art feud went international. Two years later, the work was mysteriously retrieved from Art Kieda’s lock up in an anonymous heist which left AK47 with nothing but the abandoned traffic cone from atop The Drinker’s head. A certificate for The Drinker was thereafter produced in 2008, and the work, now crowned with a new traffic cone, was later acquired by its present owner in 2014. Then in 2015, over a decade after its first debut, the work returned to the headlines once again, when Art Kieda produced an imitation of Banksy’s sculpture with some uncanny alterations in tow: titling it The Stinker, the group embellished this new rendition with a number of sardonic objects including a toilet seat and flush."
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