US EditionBanksy’s ‘Broken Heart’ painting defaced on a Brooklyn wall is up for sale
- The Georgiadis family is selling a six-by-nine-foot Banksy mural titled 'Battle to Survive a Broken Heart' removed from their Red Hook warehouse in 2014 and now displayed at Manhattan's Brookfield Place.
- The mural appeared at their warehouse in 2013 after Banksy allegedly parked there briefly, with the family unaware of his identity and later storing the slab following the owner Vassilios Georgiadis's 2021 death.
- Banksy returned later to add the phrase "is a jealous little girl" beside a rival graffiti tag, marking a rare instance of the artist altering an existing work, while the art is now protected behind plexiglass amid media attention.
- Arlan Ettinger, president of Guernsey's auction house, said the mural is "the largest Banksy, by far, ever sold," though he does not expect it to reach the $25.4 million record set by "Love is a Bin."
- The sale on May 21 at Brookfield Place will benefit the American Heart Association with 10% of proceeds given if below $1 million and 40% if above, while the family sees the mural as a final link to Vassilios's legacy.
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Banksy’s ‘Broken Heart’ painting defaced on a Brooklyn wall is up for sale
When the enigmatic street artist Banksy spray-painted a heart-shaped balloon covered with a Band-Aid on the wall of a Brooklyn warehouse, the nondescript brick building was instantly transformed into an art destination and the canvas of an unlikely graffiti battle.
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Banksy's ‘Broken Heart' painting defaced on a Brooklyn wall is up for sale
A slab of Brooklyn wall that the artist Banksy emblazoned with a bandaged, heart-shaped balloon is emerging after more than a decade in storage.
After a Decade in Storage, Banksy Mural Goes on View in New York
As the story goes, Vassilios Georgiadis was standing outside his asbestos and lead abatement warehouse in Red Hook one October evening in 2013 when Banksy drove by.“He was smoking a cigarette, in his thoughts,” Georgiadis’s son Anastasios told Hyperallergic of the encounter, when he noticed that a van had pulled over on the busy corner of King Street and Van Brunt. Neighborhood locals don’t park there, Anastasios said. Vassilios had never heard …
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