A street artist has called out Channel 4 and an art collector after a work he painted in Liverpool was sold in a TV auction for £250,000 with the claim it could be a Banksy.
The Liverpool street artist Silent Bill said he sprayed a rat image with the words ‘I never liked this Banksy’ underneath a real Banksy - only for art experts to remove it from the wall as if it was actually by the Bristolian artist as well.
That happened around ten years ago, but last month, the artwork found its way onto a Channel 4 television show called The Greatest Auction. It was sold as a Banksy and bought for £250,000 but now the artist who said they painted it said the sale and the amount of money spent is ‘appalling’.
