Banksy: New auction record for artist as shredded canvas Love Is In The Bin sells for £18.5m at Sotheby's

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Posting on Instagram, the anonymous artist said:"Some people think it didn't really shred. It did. Some people think the auction house were in on it, they weren't." The buyer in the 2018 auction - described by the auction house at the time as a"long-standing female client" - decided she still wanted to buy the painting and held on to the piece.Banksy showed in a video how the shredder was hidden in the artworkThe image of a girl reaching for a heart-shaped balloon is one of Banksy's most reproduced and well-known images.

Thursday's sale beat the previous high for a Banksy - the £16.8m raised for health charities in March 2021 when Sotheby's sold a

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