Article 58A13 Banksy's Monet tribute to go on sale for up to £5m

Banksy's Monet tribute to go on sale for up to £5m

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Sarah Marsh
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Tribute that adds abandoned shopping trollies to the impressionist image of water lilies to be sold at Sotheby's auction

Street artist Banksy's version of Claude Monet's impressionist masterpiece will go on sale at Sotheby's London gallery for an estimated 3-5m.

The painting, called Show me the Monet, was created in 2005. It is framed around Monet's famous water lilies picture but is filled with jarring images of upside-down shopping trolleys and a traffic cone bobbing in the water.

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