Banksy’s painting of MPs smashes estimates, selling for nearly £10 million

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Last month, it was announced that Banksy’s “Devolved Parliament”, a 13-foot long painting depicting MPs as chimpanzees, was going up for auction. At the time, the high estimate of £2 million caused a stir, but after a 13-minute auction on Thursday, it sold for almost five times that price.

In the end, the gavel came down at just under £9.9 million. Sotheby’s reported applause in a subsequent tweet.

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Thom Waite, Khareem Sudlow