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A VERSION OF British graffiti artist Banksy’s famous “Girl and Balloon” artwork has been unveiled by Christie’s, as the highlight of the London auction house’s upcoming sale.
The two-part or diptych canvas depicts a small child letting go of a heart-shaped red balloon and was painted by the elusive wall dauber in 2005.
It is expected to fetch up to £3.5 million (€4 million) when it goes on sale on 15 October.
“Of course, Banksy is the king of the streets, he’s almost a bit like the Robin Hood of the art world,” Katharine Arnold, head of Post-War and Contemporary Art in Europe for Christie’s, told AFP.
“Banksy used this image … outside a printing shop, it appeared on a wall, then a couple of years later, it appeared on the Southbank, another little girl with another balloon, and then in 2005, he created this diptych addition of works,” she explained.
The girl with balloon has “become something of a leitmotif for Banksy and it’s very very celebrated,” added Arnold.
“I think after 18 months of long pandemic, really this sense of hope and aspiration that you have with this little girl letting go of the love into the world as she lets go of the balloon is what we absolutely need at this moment in time.”
A Banksy canvas that was partially shredded moments after it sold at auction in 2018 is going back under the hammer on 14 October.
Originally called “Girl with Balloon” but now entitled “Love is in the Bin”, it is being offered for sale by Sotheby’s, with a guide price of £4-6 million.
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Oh no, don’t tell me the boom is over already. I’ve already put my deposit on a 2 bed apartment in Castleknock for €580,000…
I wonder if anyone has tried to upscale Lego and make a full sized house out of it?
Brickies would earn a fine pay cheque if payed per block layed.
James May made a TV programme a couple of years ago, doing just that. Even the interior fixtures, fittings and furnishings were made out of it.
I bet if they started changing land back to agricultural they’d start building
Building game is f##ked,builders refuse to pay agreed rates,or
Employ irish tradesmen on site in priory hall in Dublin. And we all know what happened there, cheap work is not good work.
We make property expensive by making bringing it to verge of extinction… Kaaaaachiing suckers.. Snort snort dine wine pick billion out of A-Hole con twist deceive repeat con twist decieve repeat snort snort pop pop bonuses party.
It’s feasible that it’s down to planning permission lag. Could the Journal x-ref this with planning permissions ready to go in Dublin and other areas?
Artificially choke supply with a high demand and prices will rocket.
Go, FG/Lab – banks, developers and estate agents are loving this (your BFF’s). Everyone else, not so much.
Great job government
Loosening of post Priory Hall regulations for one off domestic dwellings are reportedly in the pipeline soon. Surely the potential to save tens of thousands by delaying a few months would be enough of a carrot to account for a slump.
Why are we not building with hemp? Hemp had ability to store carbon, reversing climate change, and does not require buildings to be heated, lowering co2 again, and saving everyone a money except the energy companies… two guesses as to who is anti hemp
Who?
Hold on – how can this be true? For the last three weeks and more the Journal has been bigging up the great resurgence in property values. JobBridge Joan told her party conference that the economy is in recovery and that “the cranes have reappeared on our skylines”. Surely we are headed to the promised land, and milk and honey awaits us VERY SOON. Live horse and you will get grass. It is always a little sad when the hype and downright dishonesty is exposed – hard not to feel a bit let down – YET AGAIN.
Bob the trainee.
NAMA knocked good houses and housing estates down for what, could they have not put the homeless into them?
No one cares if they did they stand up to this government and say no more?
There are 440,000 getting a dole payment you know?
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