Banksy graffiti painted by workmen · 2007-04-21 13:34
Workmen in London have painted over a 300,000 pound piece by world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy, AFP agency reported.
A picture of John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson’s characters from the 1994 film “Pulp Fiction” holding bananas instead of guns, has been painted over by a graffiti removal team, the Daily Telegraph said.
“Our graffiti removal teams are staffed by professional cleaners, not professional art critics,” said a spokesman for Transport for London, employers of the workers who coated the piece in thick black paint.
“There is no way it could have been mistaken for graffiti,” George Thomas, who owns a barber shop below where the Banksy used to be, told the Telegraph. “Whoever destroyed it is an idiot.”
Although Banksy’s canvases are snapped up by celebrities such as Angelina Jolie for thousands of pounds, his graffiti creations can be found on walls and billboards around London.
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