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    'We Just Got Banksy-ed': 'Girl With Balloon' Sells For $1.4M Before Self-Destructing

    Shortly after the auctioneer's hammer fell, the mysterious street artist's well-known painting passed through a shredder, shocking spectators and bidders at a Sotheby's auction house in London.
    by Emma Bowman Oct 06, 2018 2 minutes
    One of Banksy's "Girl With Balloon" paintings is on display at an exhibition opening of works by the England-based street artist, at St. Petersburg's Manege Central Exhibition Hall in September.

    "Girl With Balloon," one of the most recognized works of the England-based street artist known as Banksy, fetched a hefty $1.37 million (£1.04 million) at a Sotheby's auction in London on Friday.

    But perhaps the real art installation didn't arrive until after the piece was sold.

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