Banksy shreds his own Girl With Balloon print - after it sells for £1m

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It was typical Banksy, leaving the audience wondering whether he was making a serious point about the impermanence of supposedly timeless works of art or just poking fun at the people who buy such pieces.

 

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I love performance art.

Be worth 3 million now

The man is a genius. Wow.

The irony of this is, is that he's probably just made the painting infinity more desirable.

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