Will Banksy break his record with his 'Show Me the Monet' auction?

The estimated sale price, according to Sotheby's, is between 4 and 6.5 million dollars. All eyes are on this auction, which will take place on October 21, and bets are that it will exceed the estimated price. What do you think?

It was the last year of the 19th century. In Giverny. It was the place and the time when Édouard Monet painted one of his most famous paintings, Water Lily Pond , which over the years has gradually become part of the collective imagination as a certain prototype of an impressionist painting. Now, 121 years later, a tribute to the famous work by the most talked-about recent artist, the acclaimed Banksy, is about to be auctioned in London. And it is expected to live up to all expectations.

It will be this Wednesday, October 21 , when, broadcast live, the auction house Sotheby's will kick off the bidding for the painting by the elusive British artist, which is titled Show Me the Monet , a play on words with the “Show me the money” shouted by Tom Cruise in the film Jerry Maguire .

Will Banksy break a new sales record?

The buyer of the painting, which has so far been on display at the company's gallery on New Bond Street, is estimated to pay between $3.9 and $6.5 million (€3,320,000 and €5,540,000). But given that in October 2019, Banksy's Devolved Parliament , which was priced at around $2.5 million, was eventually auctioned off for $12.1 million (beating the artist's previous record by more than $1 million), no one is willing to speculate.

A work belonging to Banksy's Crude Oils series

Especially considering that the painting is part of the Crude Oils series , which the artist created in 2005 through classic paintings (from Van Gogh to Hopper), reinterpreting them in a modern key and with a spirit of protest, as can be seen in the shopping cart and the cones floating in the pond.

The work is a critique of society's disdain for the environment, in favor of the wasteful excesses of consumerism.

Here is the result of the Banksy auction (Updated)

Although the current record set by Banksy for the sale of his work Devolved Parliament for 12 million dollars has not been surpassed, Show me the Monet has undoubtedly met all expectations , reaching a staggering auction figure of 9.8 million dollars , placing it second in the ranking of the most expensive works by the British artist.