An interesting item from the UK. Guerrilla artist Banksy inadvertently helped a couple sell a house that otherwise had a lukewarm market response. The couple’s house, which has a wall featuring a three-year-old Banksy mural, was instead auctioned by Cristy’s, apparently as a work of art with a house attached!
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bristol/Somerset | Free house as part of Banksy sale:
Sarah Anslow of the Red Propeller art gallery in Devon, said: “We’ve been absolutely overwhelmed by the interest in this piece.
“It is an early Banksy, we think it’s about four years old, so that in itself makes it unusual and it was free-painted.
“The people who own the house have decided to sell it but they’ve become frustrated as they’ve come close to exchanging contracts on several occasions only to find the prospective owners want to get rid of the mural.
“The owners consider it a work of art and want it kept as it is. They came to us to help sell it as a mural with a house attached.”
Meanwhile, a London council has admitted street cleaners accidentally washed off two Banksy murals, including one of a girl in a frilly dress wearing a gas mask, off the side of a building.
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