Banksy painting parodying Monet sold over 7 million pounds – rts.ch

The painting “Show me the Monet” by British urban artist Banksy, parodying Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, was sold on Wednesday in London for 7.6 million pounds.

Five collectors competed for the work for nearly nine minutes of online auction. This is the “second highest price ever reached” by a Banksy canvas in auction, announced the house Sotheby’s, which organized the sale. The table was initially estimated at between 3 and 5 million pounds (3.6 and 6 million francs).

Dating from 2005, the painting takes up one of the famous works of the French impressionist painter showing a Japanese bridge over a flowering basin, in which now also dip orange signaling pads and an old caddy.

Contempt for the environment

“Banksy highlights here the contempt of society for the environment in the face of the wasteful excesses of consumerism”, said in a statement Alex Branczik, European head of contemporary art at Sotheby’s who sees in the artist from Bristol a “visionary”.

“Show me the Monet” is part of a series of paintings entitled “Crude Oils”, in which the artist had fun diverting great classics of painting. In particular, there is a version of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” with withered flowers.

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