Banksy artwork sells for almost $10 million at auction

By: AP | London | October 23, 2020 12:30:40 pm

Banksy's 'Show Me the Monet' sold at the auction at Sotheby’s in London. (Source: rosenhangmuseum/Instagram)Banksy’s playful take on a famous Impressionist painting has sold at auction for 7.6 million pounds ($9.8 million), the second-highest price ever paid for a work by the British street artist.

‘Show Me the Monet’ sold to an unidentified bidder at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday evening, surpassing its upper pre-sale estimate of 5 million pounds.

In the 2005 work, Banksy added abandoned shopping carts and an orange traffic cone to Claude Monet’s image of water lilies in his garden at Giverny.