LONDON (AP) — A work by street artist Banksy that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold for $1.4 million could make several times that price at an auction. “Love is in the Bin” is being offered at auction Thursday by Sotheby’s in London with a pre-sale estimate of 4 million pounds to 6 million pounds ($5.5 million to $8.2 million). It consists of a half-shredded framed canvas bearing a spray-painted image of a girl reaching for a heart-shaped red balloon. It was created during an October 2018 auction of Banksy’s image “Girl With Balloon” when a hidden shredder embedded in the frame left half the canvas hanging from the frame in strips. Sotheby’s says the result is “the ultimate Banksy artwork.”
Shredded Banksy artwork could fetch millions at auction
