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Banksy Pieces From NYC Residency Hit Auction Block Tonight
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Published Feb 18, 2014
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At the Miami Art Fair in December. (Gothamist)
Two of Banksy's pieces from his New York City residency are down in Miami, after Manhattan gallery owner Stephan Keszler claimed them as his own to sell. The Bandaged Heart (ripped from a wall in Red Hook and later purchased by Keszler) and Crazy Horse Car Door (which Keszler had towed away from a Lower East Side lot) will be on the auction block in Florida tonight. The balloon was last seen at the Art Miami Fair behind a velvet rope in December.
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According to the AP, the works are expected to bring Keszler hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Fine Art Auction (street art expert Sebastien Laboureau told the WSJ the balloon could get up to $600,000). Keszler has sold Banksy works before, and says he got into it "because no one else is doing it. It's a very good niche."
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