Love is in the bin: Shredded Banksy up for sale at higher price

The half-shredded artwork will return to auction on October 14 with an estimated sale price of 4 to 6 million British pounds ($5.5m to $8.3m).

In 2018, a painting by Banksy began to self-destruct while it was on the auction block at Sotheby’s in London. Just after the spray-painted artwork of a girl holding a balloon sold for about £1 million ($1.4 million) an alarm went off and the work slowly began to fall through a shredder hidden inside the frame. After it was about halfway through, the shredder stopped—or jammed. Sotheby’s continues to insist it wasn’t in on the “prank,” even as it has announced that the work—still half-shredded—will return to auction on Oct. 14 with an estimate of £4 million to £6 million.