So if a Banksy painting appeared in your house you were about to sell would you cancel the sale?

[JacobReesMogadishu]

Because this is what a woman in Bristol has done! She was about to exchange but has now taken her house off the market as she’s been told the painting/house could now be worth £5million.

Would someone actually pay £5million for the house? It looks a significant size painting but is on the actual house wall. So not sure how or if the painting could be removed to put in a gallery, etc. And I don’t think the people who could afford £5million want to live in what was a £300,000 house in Bristol. 🤷‍♀️

You can sell the work by having the wall removed and then replaced. Thats what I'd do

Of course you'd cancel the sale. Imagine if you gave £millions away by selling it.

This thread might be peak Mumsnet. Imagine the pearl-clutching of 1890s MN.

Well, if that Monet thinks he can paint MY water-lilies he can fuck off. I don’t see what all the fuss is about. So overhyped. They’re all fuzzy.

It's shit. I'd be pissed off and very tempted to paint over it. However the prospect of a million or two would put me in a quandary.
Banksy's public artwork/vandalism should stay transitory and should not be preserved, as per the artwork he did on the London Underground recently.

I think it's totally twattish of Banksy to do this, knowing full well the house was in the process of being sold (I believe there was a sold sign on the property). He must have known it would cause the sale to be at best delayed, and at worst cancelled.

He's an arse.

I’m a total ignoramous when it comes to art.

But I’d definitely not sell for £350k if it was worth £5m. Once I had the lovely lucre in my sweaty paw I’d like to think I’d pay the (failed) buyers professional fees, but only if they had “played nice”.

Not worth £5m. The picture would never be put back right again if the wall was taken apart. Banksy is no fool.

@nancy75

Re how he does it - it’s just a stencil.

I don’t get the hype about banksy, graffiti artists with talent don’t use stencils. Obviously if it appeared on the side of my house I wouldn’t destroy it.

Well fuck me, the stencils must just design themselves using some sort of magic! No talent involved at all! 🙈

His art is popularist shite.

We had a Banksy in our town that got chipped off the wall and flown to America for sale.

I’m not a big art lover, but this is equally what I like about art.

Everyone has completely different tastes. Who would have thought that art re tins of soup would be famous?!

The reason I like Banksy’s art is that it gets people talking, as it’s normally topical. Doesn’t matter if the talking is positive or negative, it provokes a reaction. I prefer his art to Damien Hirst, who equally got people talking, and that’s what I find interesting - we all perceive it differently (fyi, I think Van Gogh’s self portrait was shit!).

My house has a lovely smooth, cream rendered exterior - I’d bloody love it if Banksy did a huge creation on my gable wall. Might help with funding the costs of the flipping ancient money pit that I live in!

Yes of course

If someone wants to pay for a piece of the wall and that is more than they house has been valued it they are welcome to

I can always buy a print of the work

The people who wanted to buy it must have wished Banksy had held on for a few weeks

Having seen the house i cant believe it was for sale for £300k. I think the new buyers should count themselves lucky!

And if banksy put something on my wall id get the bleach and paint out. His work is way overrated.

I’d get it valued then professionally removed. Once I’d done that I’d sell them both.

@SantasBritchesSpelleas

His art is popularist shite.

I bought my DH a signed print for about 150 quid many years ago, way before Banksy got really popular. Popularist shite it may be, but DH hung onto it and now it's a £££££ deposit for our DC to buy a house!

@im5050 curious now, do you know what the sad reason is he chose that house?

I’d get it valued and see if it can be removed.sell and keep the money, then move.

@Manolinette

Not worth £5m. The picture would never be put back right again if the wall was taken apart. Banksy is no fool.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8869077/One-Banksys-earliest-works-Gorilla-Pink-Mask-removed-wall-auction.html

Sorry it's a DM link but this was removed from a wall and sold for £7m

Ignore the price - that was a different work.

Nevertheless, it was successfully removed although I can't find a sold price

@Bringbackthestrips

Blimey-the cyclist is brave.

Bloody hell he's either brave or crazy!

No, I’d get it painted over and carry on.

I'd agree with @WitchesSpelleas, I'd be furious I don't get the Banksey love. We have one in my local area and I really wouldn't want crowds of people invading my privacy. Plus the bike chained to the lamp post is an absolute eyesore!

The original bike got nicked and I was pleased. Then someone donated another. It looks awful.

@Manolinette

Not worth £5m. The picture would never be put back right again if the wall was taken apart. Banksy is no fool.

It doesn't have to be taken apart. People who have successfully sold these bits of wall in the past and made fortunes are no fools.