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Banksy-paintings by MPs as a chimpanzee sold for £9. 9m

Feb 16,2020 6:49 am

The Painting is nearly four meters (13 ft) wide, and is the largest known painting by Banksy

A painting by Banksy shows The House of Commons is overrun with chimpanzees has sold at auction for less than £9. 9m.

The 4m (13 ft) wide, of art Devolved Parliament has been painted by artist of The Anonymous Bristol in 2009.

it is Expected to fetch up to £2m, sold for almost five times its estimate at Sotheby's in London on Thursday.

Banksy responded on Instagram, saying it "was a Record price for a Banksy painting" and "shame I don't have it".

'tender of the battle,'

Sotheby's has sold The Painting , "to the applause at £9,879,500 - Nine times its previous Record - After a 13-minute commandments battle".

The Auction House said: "Regardless of where you sit in the Brexit debate, there is No Doubt that this work is more relevant now than ever. "

But, the Record -breaking price was seemingly challenged by the elusive artist posted a quote from Robert Hughes on his Instagram account, stating: "Rather than the common property of mankind is the way a book is, art becomes the particular property of somebody who can afford it. "

Now, the Parliament is The Artist 's largest work on canvas.

the previous auction suggested thought Record for a Banksy, that $1. 8m (£1. 4m) for the Keep It Spotless, sold at Sotheby's in New York in the year 2008.

Alex Branczik of Sotheby's, said Banksy "confronted with The Burning questions of The Day ".

He said The Artist ," says the society, the complicated political situations, in a seemingly simple image that is easily divisible in our Social Media age."

Banksy created Devolved Parliament for the takeover of the Bristol Museum in 2009, More Than 300,000 visitors, and said that was one of The Most visited exhibitions in The World this year.

to mark The Painting 's anonymous owner, both The Exhibition as a 10-year anniversary, and in the UK, originally planned exit from the EU on 29. March.

The auction was held a year ago, according to Banksy himself intervened in a Sotheby's auction of his works of art did not come as the Hammer is down, the re-titled love in the trash.

Devolved Parliament was on display in April, at the Bristol Museum

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Source of news: bbc.com

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