Banksy take on Monet masterpiece sells for £7.6mn

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Show me the MonetLONDON - An oil painting by British street artist Banksy parodying a Claude Monet masterpiece sold in London for £7.6-million, the second-highest price at auction for the mysterious artist.

The sale comes a year after a Banksy painting depicting the British parliament populated by chimpanzees smashed the record for the street artist by fetching nearly £9.9-million. The painting transforms Monet's masterpiece depicting a Japanese-style bridge in his famous garden at Giverny into a modern-day fly-tipping spot.

 

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