Woman Who Bought Shredded Banksy Artwork Volition Larn Through Amongst Purchase

Well, I approximate nosotros simply got the response to the enquiry posed yesteryear my correspondent inwards Saturday's "Banksy Picture Shreds Itself After Auction":

Via a friend who asks: "Is the motion-picture demo worth to a greater extent than or less than when the hammer came down?"

That's simply the agency she looks at the world.

From The Guardian:

Buyer of Girl With Balloon, who paid £1.04m for work, says she has her ‘own slice of fine art history’

The buyer of the Banksy impress that was partially shredded straightaway later its auction volition larn ahead with the £1m purchase with claims that its value volition accept significantly increased next the self-destruction.

The fine art the world was left stunned when some one-half of Girl With Balloon, 1 of the street artist’s nearly famous stencil drawings, was reduced to ribbons yesteryear a shredder built into the frame later the hammer went downwards at Sotheby’s inwards London on five October.

Strips of the 2006 slice were shown dangling from the bottom of the frame every bit technicians at the auction family swiftly took it off the wall together with carried it out of view. The auctioneer declared to the packed saleroom: “We are going to deed on.”

The transformed function has been given a novel title, Love Is inwards the Bin, together with has been granted a certificate yesteryear Pest Control, Banksy’s authentication body.

The buyer, a woman someone European collector together with a longstanding customer of Sotheby’s, confirmed on Th that she would larn out on with the £1.04m deal. “When the hammer came downwards concluding calendar week together with the function was shredded, I was at starting fourth dimension shocked, but gradually I began to realise that I would cease upward with my ain slice of fine art history,” she said....MORE

Coincidentally both the buyer together with my emailer used the "hammer" terminology.

Wait, what? Maybe it's non a coincidence!