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A painting attributed to cult graffiti artist Banksy fetched more than £200,000 in an online auction. Now the lucky owner will just have to work out how to get it home.
The work, depicting an artist in old-fashioned clothes putting the finishing touches on the word "Banksy", was scrawled on a wall on the Portobello Road in Notting Hill.
It was sold on eBay for £208,100 ($514,739) after 69 bids.
The winner will have to calculate how to get the whole work delivered and pay to replace the wall.
"I am selling the wall because I can't really justify owning a piece of art worth as much as it is," said Luti Fagbenle, the owner of the property on which the graffiti is sprayed.
Fagbenle said the artist had put up scaffolding when Portobello's market was in full swing, so that he could paint unseen.
- REUTERS
