Banksy Sold $225,000 Worth of Art at a Central Park Stall for $420

Hahaha…

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From Gizmodo

You missed it. On Saturday, Banksy set up a nondescript stall on the edge of Central Park, where he sold stencilled prints for $60 a pop. The monkey with a sign, the guy with the flowers, the rat with the smirk—all the classics were there. Too bad nobody wanted them.

Over the course of the day, only three people bought prints from the old man watching over the stall, subtly labelled “Spray Art.” One woman bought two small canvases and bargained her way into getting a 50 percent discount. (Careful there kids–each one of those is worth a year of college tuition!) A young woman bought a bigger canvas for regular price. Some lucky guy from Chicago bought four for his new house. He just wanted “something for the walls.”

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