Banksy's Thrift Shop Painting Sells For More Than $600,000 At Charity Auction

Nov 1, 2013

A Banksy-doctored painting sold at an online auction yesterday for $615,000.

It was dropped off at a Housing Works thrift shop near Gramercy Park in New York City on Tuesday morning.  The woman who dropped it off said that the painting was of value and that someone would be contacting them shortly, according to the Housing Works organization. So much for an ordinary transaction.

The simple oil painting, titled “The Banality Of The Banality of Evil,” was stripped of its human figure, and now has a Nazi figure painted on, plus the Banksy signature. It is featured on the artist’s website which chronicles his month-long street-art spree all over New York. The original painting was purchased two months ago from the very same thrift shop.

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