Banksy's "Balloon Girl" shredded at Sotheby's auction!
British street artist Banksy has stunned the art world with arguably his most audacious prank yet, self-destructing one of his best-known works moments after it fetched more than a million pounds at auction in London.
"Girl with Balloon" had just sold at Sotheby's Friday for £1,042,000 ($1.4 million, 1.2 million euros) – a joint record for the maverick artist – when it unexpectedly passed through a shredder hidden in the frame, according to the auction house.
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