Banksy's purple "Girl With Balloon" print ap for auction at Christie'sSeptember 11, 2020 - 15:45 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A rare print of street artist Banksy's famous Girl With Balloon artwork is expected to sell for up to £350,000 ($450,000), Sky news reports. While it usually features a red balloon, this one is purple - and one of just 88 created with different colours. It is up for grabs at Christie's as part of the auction house's second sale dedicated to Banksy. The online auction is already under way and has a starting bid of £240,000 ($308,000), with a final estimate of £250,000 to £350,000 (320,000-450,000). The sale of the 69cm x 49cm artwork finishes on September 23. The sale is titled Banksy: I Can't Believe You Morons Actually Buy This S***, after the anonymous street artist's Morons artwork, and includes 22 lots. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |