Banksy’s Self-Destructing Painting Sells for Record-Breaking $25.3 M. at Sotheby’s

Banksy’s Love Is in the Bin, comprised of the shreds of his famously self-destructing piece Girl with Balloon, fetched £18.6 million ($25.3 million) at a Sotheby’s sale in London on Thursday, generating a new record for the artist at auction. After 10 minutes of bidding, the work was bought by an anonymous European woman for well over its pre-sale estimate of £4 million–£6 million, according to the BBC.
The sale marks nearly three years since Girl With a Ballo