Huge sale
At the end of the day, the painting sold for a record number of twenty-five million dollars. That’s millions of dollars for a piece of work that was badly damaged. But now that it was shredded in half, it gave new life to the picture and its value skyrocketed as a result.
Banksy just proved his point, that the art world was ridiculous and all about money at the end of the day. It wasn’t really about helping the artist and their work, it was all about hype and excitement. People just wanted to have a piece of that at all costs and he was right.