價值百萬英鎊的名畫在拍賣成交瞬間自毀粉碎

British street artist Banksy has stunned the art world with arguably his most audacious prank yet, self-destructing one of his best-known works moments after it fetched more than 1 million pounds at auction in London.

近日，英國街頭藝術家班克斯實施了可能是他迄今最大膽的惡作劇，震驚了整個藝術界。在倫敦以超百萬英鎊的價格將自己最知名的作品之一拍賣後，他竟然自行銷燬了這幅作品。

"Girl with Balloon" had just sold at Sotheby's for 1.04 million pounds when it unexpectedly passed through a shredder hidden in the frame.

《手持氣球的女孩》在蘇富比拍賣行以104萬英鎊售出，隨後便出人意料地穿過畫框中隱藏的碎紙機。

Banksy posted a video last Saturday on his Instagram page accompanied by a quote attributed to Pablo Picasso -- "the urge to destroy is also a creative urge" -- showing the stunt unfolding and how the artist pulled it off.

上週六，班克斯在Instagram頁面上發佈了一則視頻，展示了惡作劇上演的過程以及他是如何成功惡作劇的，配文引用了巴勃羅·畢加索的一句話：“毀滅的慾望也是創造的慾望”。

"A few years ago I secretly built a shredder into a painting, in case it was ever put up for auction," read captions displayed over footage of a man crafting the device into a faux-gilt frame.

在該視頻片段中，一名男子將碎紙機植入假的鍍金畫框。視頻配有如下字幕：“幾年前我在一幅畫作裏祕密安裝了一臺碎紙機，以防有一天這幅畫被拍賣”。

The video later shows scenes from Sotheby's, where onlookers are left aghast as an alarm sounds and most of the image drops down through the frame and is left shredded.

該視頻隨後展示了蘇富比拍賣行的現場景象：警鈴響起，畫作有一大部分沿着畫框下滑並被切碎，旁觀者目瞪口呆。

"It appears we just got Banksy-ed," said Alex Branczik, Sotheby's head of contemporary art for Europe, in a press release.

蘇富比歐洲當代藝術部主管阿萊克斯·布萊希克在新聞稿中表示：“我們似乎被班克斯擺了一道。”