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.
Almost as soon as Banksy revealed the piece back in 2013, an anonymous tagger brazenly walked up and spray painted the words “Omar NYC” in red beside the balloon, to the dismay of onlookers...
Maria Georgiadis, whose family owned the now-demolished warehouse and ultimately removed the section of wall to preserve the artwork, says the graffiti pastiche is quintessentially New York.
“It looks like a war going on,” she said recently. “They’re literally going at it on the wall.”
The preserved wall, dubbed “Battle to Survive a Broken Heart,” will be going up for sale May 21 at Guernsey’s, the New York auction house.
'Broken Art' would have been more apt, but no doubt that has been said and no doubt the thing will sell anyway.
5 comments:
Keep a close look at that auction, AKH … thinking of flying across and making a bid?
James - it's tempting, but we'd have to leave it next to the lawn mower in the garage where we couldn't enjoy it.
My god, they'd vote for a donkey with a red rosette.....sorry that's the other one.
Somehow reminds me of the Edstone. How much would that sell for?
Tammly - it's the depressing aspect of elections, far too many voters vote for more mendacity and more failure.
Sam - Reform would probably buy it as a useful reminder.
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