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Easton home painted by Banksy to be auctioned
Savvy home-buyers will be watching the auction of this home in Easton with interest when it goes under the hammer on Thursday, November 2.
Underneath 3rdEye‘s current mural are the remains of a Banksy mural which could make the house worth far more than its £250,000 yo £300,000 guide price.
The mural, Slick on Brick, has since been painted over several times, but cracks have revealed tantalising glimpses of the original painted around September 1999 which depicts a monkey blowing up a safe.
An image of the original artwork
While Banksy’s Stokes Croft and Frogmore Street works are far better known, this is not his only mural in Easton.
In 2007, then-owners of 21 Mivart Street attempted to sell their home, offering it as a Banksy mural “with a Victorian house attached” in an attempt to avoid future owners from painting over the mural, then estimated to have been worth £200,000.
Before the sale could go through, however, the mural was heavily defaced with red paint. The artwork – and the house – was removed from the market.
The garage wall of the house in Easton, with a Banksy lurking underneath 3rdEye’s current mural
Earlier this year, a Banksy that had been defaced and painted over several times was ‘rediscovered’ in Shoreditch in east London. A section of wall containing the Snorting Copper mural was cut out, and the brickwork sent off to be professionally restored over a 16-week period. The wall was then reinstalled behind a protective glass screen, and is valued at an estimated £1.25m.
There is, of course, no guarantee for any potential buyer of the Easton home who may wish to pay more than market value. It is currently impossible to know whether the Banksy mural is in any fit state to be restored, or even that it still exists at all.
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