Art handlers astatine Sotheby's auction location clasp Banksy's 'Love is successful the Bin', earlier it returns to auction astatine Sotheby's, London, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. A Banksy artwork that was sensationally shredded conscionable aft it sold for $1.4 cardinal america up for merchantability again -- astatine respective times the price. Sothebys said Friday that Love is successful the Bin volition beryllium offered astatine an Oct. 14 auction successful London, with a pre-sale estimation of 4 cardinal pounds to 6 cardinal pounds ($5.5 cardinal to $8.3 million). (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

LONDON – A Banksy artwork that sensationally self-shredded conscionable aft it sold for $1.4 cardinal is up for merchantability again — astatine respective times the erstwhile price.

Auctioneer Sotheby’s said Friday that “Love is successful the Bin” volition beryllium offered astatine a merchantability successful London connected Oct. 14. The portion has a pre-sale estimation of 4 cardinal pounds to 6 cardinal pounds ($5.5 cardinal to $8.3 million).

It consists of a half-shredded canvas bearing a spray-painted representation of a miss reaching for a heart-shaped reddish balloon.

Then known arsenic “Girl With Balloon,” the enactment was sold astatine Sotheby’s successful October 2018. Just arsenic an anonymous European purchaser made the winning bid, a hidden shredder embedded successful the framework by Banksy whirred to life, leaving fractional the canvas hanging from the framework successful strips.

The purchaser decided to spell done with the acquisition — a determination that would beryllium vindicated if the representation achieves its estimated price.

Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s president of Modern and Contemporary Art, described “Love is successful the Bin” arsenic “the eventual Banksy artwork and a existent icon of caller creation history.”

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“Love is successful the Bin was calved of the astir spectacular creator happening of the 21st century,” helium said. “When ‘Girl With Balloon’ ‘self-destructed’ successful our saleroom, Banksy sparked a planetary sensation that has since go a taste phenomenon.”

The artwork volition question and spell connected nationalist show successful London, Hong Kong, Taipei and New York up of its merchantability adjacent month.

Bansky, who has ne'er confirmed his afloat identity, began his vocation spray-painting buildings successful Bristol, England, and has go 1 of the world’s best-known artists. His mischievous and often satirical images see 2 policemen kissing, equipped riot constabulary with yellowish smiley faces and a chimpanzee with a motion bearing the words, “Laugh now, but 1 time I’ll beryllium successful charge.”

“Girl With Balloon” was primitively stenciled connected a partition successful eastbound London and has been endlessly reproduced, becoming 1 of Banksy’s best-known images.

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