Pic: Banksy.co.uk
But, unlike these unfinished new builds, Banksy’s work didn’t hang around.
Comments by the secretive artist Banksy, which appeared on the side of a half-finished development in Poplar, SE London this week, were quickly removed.
The abandoned development, at 267 East India Dock Road, which should have contained seven units, has been left untouched for about three years.
The owners may regret removing the guerilla artwork however.
Last year the ‘Banksy effect’ saw a derelict pub, listed with a guide price of £70-80,000 achieve £114,000 at auction. And a mural painted on the side of a luggage stall in 2007 was sold for £230,000.
Let’s hope that the owners of the Liverpool carpark, where this Banksy biplane loveheart graffiti also appeared this week, will not be reaching for the emulsion.
Pic: Banksy.co.uk
Has Banksy ever been caught I wonder by the police. I have seen his stuff around in London around Islington I wonder if he is from that area. This elusive artist certainly knows how to be political he something of a counter culture commentator.
Nice post. It’s incredible that an unwanted peace of art costs that much. If I had one of his works in my property I would preffer to keep it in there.