For the real name of Banksy offered one million dollars
On the online auction site eBay put information on this behalf by British artist Banksy, reports news.com.au. Sold by the nickname jaybuysthings, who lives in the U.S., claims that he was able to find out his name by comparing data on the sales of his works with tax records.
The starting price of the lot is three thousand dollars. At the time of writing this note, the proposed price was equal to 999,999 dollars. Auction must be completed on January 19.
According to the seller wins the auction will be the only person to whom it will tell the real name of Banksy. Direct commodity which he sells, is a piece of paper with the name written on it. As explained jaybuysthings, his previous similar auction was canceled because of lack of "goods" as such, so he put the information up for sale in this form.
Banksy - world's most famous representative of street art. He was famous for his graffiti that began to draw on the walls of English Bristol. With the advent of fashion on the street art of his work began to be sold at auctions of famous buildings, but their prices have reached hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Who exactly is behind the pseudonym of Banksy, not known for certain. At various times, claimed that the real name of the artist - Robin Banks, Robert and Robin Cunningham, however, this information has not been confirmed.
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