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Have you ever seen a painting destroy 1 (it)? This strange event happened during a recent auction (拍卖) in London.
Girl With Balloon is one of the most well-known works of British artist Banksy. It 2 (sell) for £1.04 million (about 9.49 million yuan) at the Sotheby auction house on Oct 5. However, shortly 3 the hammer (锤子) went down, the painting began to slide down its frame (画框) and half of the painting was cut into 4 (piece)!
In fact, there 5 (be) a shredder (碎纸机) in the frame. More surprisingly, the artist might have set the shredder in the frame himself years ago, Yahoo News reported.
Banksy is known 6 being mysterious and unpredictable. No one knows his real name, 7 his paintings are everywhere across the UK. He always plays hoaxes (恶作剧) on the art world.
People believe this is just another example of Banksy 8 (play) a trick. They think he is against the commercialization (商品化) of art.
However, the 9 (fun) part is that this hoax might have made the painting more valuable. “(The price is) possibly as high as being worth £2 million (about 18.2 million yuan) plus,” Joey Syer, 10 (found) of art website MyArtBroker.com, told the Guardian.