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Banksy’s Show Me The Monet sells for $13.9 million at Sotheby’s auction – ABC News

One of the “strongest and most iconic” Banksy works to appear at auction — a take on Claude Monet’s famous water lilies with shopping trolleys and an orange traffic…

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Banksy’s take on a famous impressionist painting has sold at auction for 7.6 million pounds ($13.9 million), the second-highest price ever paid for a work by the British street artist.

  • Show Me the Monet sold to an unidentified bidder at the London auction
  • The sale surpassed its upper pre-sale estimate of 5 million pounds ($9.2 million)
  • In the 2005 work, Banksy added abandoned shopping carts and an orange traffic cone to Claude Monet’s image of water lilies

Show Me the Monet sold to an unidentified…

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