Banksy Artwork Shredded After Selling at Auction May Have Increased in Value — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Applause]
2. 0:02art connoisseurs could only watch in
3. 0:06horror as an expensive piece was
4. 0:09shredded before their eyes
5. 0:11[Applause]
6. 0:14no sooner did the gavel come down to
7. 0:17mark the sale of Banksy's girl with
8. 0:19balloon for a record 1.4 million dollars
9. 0:23did the picture start to slip out of its
10. 0:26frame into shreds below the anonymous
11. 0:29artist claims to be behind the stunt on
12. 0:32Instagram he posted a photo of his prank
13. 0:35with the caption going going gone in a
14. 0:39later post he explained how he did it
15. 0:43and it seems this stunt was years in the
16. 0:47making
17. 0:47he claims he built the shredder into the
18. 0:50paintings frame in case it ever sold at
19. 0:52auction
20. 1:04witnesses couldn't believe what they
21. 1:06were seeing we can only imagine what the
22. 1:08buyer was thinking the person's identity
23. 1:11hasn't been revealed
24. 1:12Sotheby's claims it was shocked by the
25. 1:15stunt the auction house is also trying
26. 1:18to figure out what this means for the
27. 1:20value of the painting considering the
28. 1:22artist who is known for using his craft
29. 1:25to pull pranks and make ideological
30. 1:28points some artists speculate the value
31. 1:31of girl with balloon could actually soar
32. 1:34for Inside Edition dot-com I'm Mara
33. 1:37montalbano
34. 1:39[Music]