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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Shaun Wilson

Banksy mural at centre of legal battle after being removed from east London club and put up for sale in US

Banksy’s ‘Yellow Lines Flower Painter’ was painted on the side of Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club in 2007 - (Chris Jackson / Getty Images)

A Banksy artwork is at the centre of a legal row after the East London club on whose wall it was painted claimed it was removed without permission and put up for sale in the United States.

The piece, titled Yellow Lines Flower Painter, was created in 2007 on the exterior of Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. It shows an exhausted worker in dungarees slumped on a tin of paint, next to a flower sprouting from the street’s double yellow lines.

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