Banksy Painting Self Destructs After Being Sold For $1.4 Million

This past Friday, the auction house Sotheby's sold a painting by renowned artist Banksy for $1.4 million.

But it wouldn't be a Banksy spectacle if there wasn't a little chaos.  So Banksy introduced a little chaos.

As soon as the painting sold, it self destructed.  Banksy hid a paper shredder along the bottom of the picture frame.  It automatically activated, and the people in the auction house could only watch as $1.4 million was shredded into little tiny bits.

. "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge" - Picasso

A post shared by Banksy (@banksy) on Oct 6, 2018 at 10:09am PDT

The painting sold was a recreation of Banksy's iconic image of a girl releasing a red balloon, appearing first spray painted on a building in East London in 2002.  Banksy captioned the post of the painting shredding itself with a quote from Picasso, "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge."

Via The Verge