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Sotheby’s art auction likely to infuriate secretive street painter

SECRETIVE British street artist Banksy often paints on walls at night and has complained when people remove and resell his works, so he is sure to be infuriated by Sotheby’s offering of about 70 items for “private sale” in London.

Dubbed “The Unauthorized Retrospective” and curated by Steve Lazarides, a street-art promoter and Banksy’s former agent, the London show  includes sculptures, oils, and prints — all of which are said to have increased enormously in value in a few years.

 “I think for him it’s probably the last thing in the world he’d ever want to see,” Lazarides said at a press preview of the exhibition.

“It’s an unauthorized exhibition — he has nothing to do with it apart from the fact he painted all the paintings, of course. For him — I don’t know — I think it’s interesting to get all the works together. It will probably mean more commercially than it will mean anything else.”

For the show, the gallery walls have been spray-painted red and black using a fire extinguisher, “picking the true vandal’s weapon of choice”, as Lazarides put it, to create a background that fits the work.




 

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