Banksy’s “Show me the Monet” oil painting went on show in London today ahead of a Sotheby’s livestream auction.
The piece was created in 2005 as a “dissident” version of Claude Monet’s masterpiece Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lillies, with shopping trollies and traffic cones added to the scene.
The work will be on public display today and tomorrow Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries before being exhibited in New York and Hong-Kong.
It will then return to London to be auctioned with a guide price of £3 million to £5 million at the Modernités/Contemporary auction.
The series of events which started in June features Sotheby’s specialists in New York, London and Hong Kong taking phone bids live on camera, and auctioneer Oliver Barker presiding over the sales in London.
The sale of Show me the Monet comes a year after Banksy’s Devolved Parliament canvas - which replaced British politicians in the House of Commons with chimpanzees - sold at the West London gallery for a record £9.9 million.
