Banksy’s murals were painted at the Bethnal Green Working Man’s Club in east London after a legal battle, claiming the work had been illegally removed and sold in the United States.
The mural, titled Yellow line flower painter (2007), depicting a worker in gungarees holding paint rollers and sitting on paint cans. Next to him was a huge flower that had surfaced from the double yellow lines on the street. The painting is currently in Colorado.
The trustee of the Bethnal Green Worker club has filed a lawsuit against one of its own employees, Warren Dent and other defendants. Financial Times.
According to the club’s former accountant, Stephen Smorthit, a club secretary who works for the company Capital & Co, agreed to sell Dent Yellow line flower painter In 2019, it has £20,000 ($27,000). Chris Bull, an art restorator who owns the Fine Art Restoration Company (and the defendant in the case), was then commissioned by Dent to remove the mural. After the bull was also damaged by graffiti, he asked the bull to resume work.
this foot The Bulls successfully deleted the work, he lent it to his father’s gallery in Aspen, Colorado, for a show last March, the report said. Bull said Dent and three club members agreed to the loan. Before shipment to the United States, Yellow line flower painter Insurance is $750,000.
However, a lawsuit filed last month by three trustees from the Bertner Green Staff Club (Paul Le Masurier, Alan Milliner and Kerry Smorthit) believes they did not allow Dent to allow the job to be purchased. (Kerry is the daughter of Stephen’s secretary.) It also claims the painting was sold illegally in the United States. The three of the trustees are suing to return to work, and they say Dent has no right to sell it because he does not own it.
Bull and Fine Art Restoration said they would object to the claim: “We named it because we have the job and if we are asked, we will give it up.” foot Banks’ office, pest control, three trustees, Dent and Capital & Co all declined to comment.
Banksy’s auction record is £18.6 million ($25.5 million) Love in the box (Originally titled Girls balloons), as we all know, this is self-defort at Sotheby’s in 2018. However, the British artist’s wall work proved difficult to take, especially since he did not issue a certificate of authenticity for them.
Last year, Banks Happy kitchen knife (2002) shows a group of helicopters, some adorned with giant pink bows and arrows, failing to find a buyer at an auction house in Newcastle. It is estimated to be £500,000 ($680,000), but without proof of authenticity, it has been removed from the walls of an office building in Shoreditch, East London.
