Banksy's work won a bid for 1 billion yen Satire on environmental destruction with Monet's theme October 22, 23:11
Banksy, a world-renowned artist with a keen social caricature, put up an auction for a work with the motif of French painter Monet's "water lily" and sold it at a high price of over 1 billion yen.
The winning bid was an oil painting by masked artist Banksy in 2005.
With the motif of one of the series of "Water Lilies", which is considered to be the masterpiece of French painter Claude Monet, abandoned shopping carts are drawn in the pond, satire of the modern environmental destruction. Is believed to be.
This work was sold at an auction held in London, England on the 21st for more than £ 7.55 million, which is almost double the initially expected bid price, and was sold for about 1,035 million yen in Japanese yen.
According to overseas media, Banksy's work sold at the auction was the second most expensive work after the one sold for more than 1.3 billion yen last year.