OH yh how often did this boat rescue people? When was the last time it went out on sea?

His castle is called wolf's lair. I can get you the address if you want

maybe do that after you've paid Pigeon his money?

one step at a time

Still waiting for pigeons address and name 😇

Edit : oh and the proof that I agreed with his stupid deal 😂

Is that the old rumour that Moby sold his house to Banksy? Or anything more concrete?

Bravo ...If that was an intended pun...

 Attention is definitely here again 

Thats not a bad deal, as long as they were blank canvas's that could be sold on... The original artwork might devalue them otherwise.

I will give him a fiver for it

A Girl With Balloon diptych sold at Christies this afternoon for just over £3m. That's a £1m leap on the last GWB canvas which auctioned at Sotheby's in June.

www.christies.com/lot/lot-6339871?ldp_breadcrumb=back&intObjectID=6339871&from=salessummary&lid=1

That said it was also below the low estimate of 2.6m GBP and no where near the upper estimate of 3.5m GBP
Everything is relative.

i love the usual arguments when something passes or is not doing well - its either the ever so popular 'condition' or 'unpopular image'

Anyway, everything is relative

Where are they getting the 40k number pre-shredded? Irony in this is that he seemed to want 80k after but would have gotten way more without shredding. True face palm.....

Previously discussed here** in the context of another 8 October 2018 article, published in Metro (part of DMG Media, as with Daily Mail).


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What's regrettable about this kind of business advertisement, which masquerades as news, is the number of readers that will accept it unquestioningly. They'll take the information therein at face value.



Psychologically, this does hold some interest:

The deceit is often effective, in part because readers want the story to be genuine.

We all like to think we're smart. So when the finger is pointed at someone else, somebody who appears to have acted stupidly, we get a sense of being more intelligent by comparison. The ego massage immediately makes us feel better about ourselves. And the manipulator's hope is that we be disinclined to question the narrative fed to us in the relevant article.


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In this instance, we've got two images of a counterfeit Girl with Balloon and shredder-effect slicing. The photos are low-res, but still detailed enough to show the print is fake. It could well be one of the countless churned out by that intellectual property thief and parasite, The West Country Prince.








References in the 2018 articles to the print having a value of £40,000 are therefore lies, and the black circle in the top photo (suggesting a covered-up edition number) looks like an effort to make the deception more convincing.


One irony is clear:

Many of the articles' readers will be duped by the print's owner, i.e. duped by the very person they'll mistakenly believe to be a fool for having sliced up a genuine Banksy.


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Now, who could be the actual owner of the print?

A question that always needs asking is, Cui bono? And more specifically here, Who benefits from this fabricated story and press attention?

The answer seems straightforward to me: Ian Syer and/or Joe Syer from MyArtBroker. They presumably contacted DMG Media in the first place to offer their "scoop".



But query what's been achieved:

Free advertising for MyArtBroker? Definitely. Entertaining story? Perhaps. But also dishonest, and integrity-compromising. That's unfortunate for any business wishing to be seen as reputable.

Whenever art dealers are identified as stooping to this type of shenanigan, a level of trust is lost. I also find it difficult to take those people seriously. It's simpler to just dismiss them as clowns.

Not sure I follow your reasoning on this, but I'm very willing to be educated.  From a market position, the Girl With Balloon diptych was bought at £3,042, 500 which is pretty much bang in the middle of the Christie's £2.6-£3.5m estimate.