American Artist Pays A Whopping Rs 5 Crore For Banksy Artwork & Promises To Whitewash It

American artist Ron English plans to whitewash a Banksy work he bought for a whopping Rs 5 crore from an auction.?

Reports state that the original Banksy art depicts a young child on his knees at a sewing machine making Union Jack bunting. It was painted as a protest against sweatshops being used to manufacture souvenirs of the London Olympics.

Ron English decided to buy the artwork at the auction in LA on Wednesday so that he can paint over it, saying that street art 'shouldn't be bought and sold'.

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"I'm going to paint it white again, I'm done. This is a blow for street art. It shouldn't be bought and sold," he told ITV.

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"I'm going to paint over it and just include it in one of the walls in my house. We're tired of people stealing our stuff off the streets and re-selling it so I'm just going to buy everything I can get my hands on and whitewash it."

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English vowed to continue buying and whitewashing street work so long as profiteers remove them from the public eye.

This comes only a month after a print of Banksy’s iconic ‘Girl With Balloon’ painting from 2006 shredded itself only moments after selling for $1.1 million.?

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