New Banksy graffiti has already bought the dealer for a "six figure sum"
ARTinvestment.RU   22 января 2019

Talking about graffiti boy gasping "snowflakes" from the burning tank. Work has appeared in the Christmas period in the industrial city of Port-Толбот in Wales on the walls of the garage simple

For one magical night before Christmas concrete garage 55-летнего steelworker John Lewis has become gold. All thanks to Banksy's work Season's Greetings that appeared on it. On the wall of the garage shows a boy catching snowflakes with the mouth, but turning a corner, we see that the "snowflakes" — is nothing like the ashes flying from the burning dumpster, whether from the pipe. It is believed that Banksy is thus expressed about the environmental problems of the center of ferrous metallurgy, which is the Port-Толбот. British dealer John Brandler (John Brandler) announced by telephone to the news Agency Reuters that he had purchased the murals of Banksy, for "six figures". That is if the dealer was referring to pounds, the work Banksy has done him more £100 million ($130 million).

the Exact price, the buyer refused to name. To the question where he got such funds, Brandler said that in his collection there are already several works of Banksy and the work of constable, Gainsborough, Turner. "My hobby — is my business. The last time I went to work when I was 18", — says the dealer, through which a steelworker from Port-Толбота now also not going to work.

"And the inhabitants of the Port-Толбота and fans of Banksy? Again, the art fell into the hands of greedy dealers?" — may ask you. All true, but not quite. John Brandler said that giving the job to Port-Толбот to rent for at least two-три year and that he wants to use it as the center of gravity in the new art-кластере, which will attract to the Port-Толбот world-renowned artists.

But what will happen then? According to the buyer, which leads Reuters, the whole mural, located on the corner of the concrete garage to be moved in one piece. The question is — where.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: reuters.com, artinvestment.ru