An artwork created by Banksy has been removed from a south London street less than an hour after it was confirmed to be a genuine installation.

The artist confirmed the piece – a traffic stop sign covered with three aircraft said to resemble military drones – was his in a social media post on Friday shortly after midday.

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    An artwork created by Banksy has been removed from a south London street less than an hour after it was confirmed to be a genuine installation.

    The artist confirmed the piece – a traffic stop sign covered with three aircraft said to resemble military drones – was his in a social media post on Friday shortly after midday.

    The mural depicted a 1950s housewife with a swollen eye and missing tooth, wearing an apron and yellow washing-up gloves, and throwing a man into a chest freezer.

    The exhibition features pieces including Girl With Balloon, Flower Thrower and Rude Copper and also focuses on Banksy’s Dismaland, the Walled Off hotel in Bethlehem and recent works acknowledging the war in Ukraine.

    An exhibition also opened at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art for a limited run and showcased 25 years of Banksy’s stencil graffiti.

    Cut & Run included authentic artefacts, ephemera and the artist’s toilet, as well as a model that explained how Bansky shredded Girl With Balloon during an auction at Sotheby’s in London in 2018.


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