Monkey business? Banksy's primates in parliament up for auction

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A Banksy painting of primates sitting in Britain's parliament goes under th...

LONDON - A Banksy painting of primates sitting in Britain’s parliament goes under the hammer next week and is expected to fetch up to $2.5 million.

With an eye on the 2009 work’s extreme topicality - the House of Commons is witnessing increasingly brutish exchanges over Britain’s EU departure - the auction house has set its estimated price tag at 1.5 million - 2 million pounds “Here we see this, one of our oldest democracies and within it we see the regression toward tribal animalistic behavior.”

 

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Probably making room for future works😊

Was there a bloated blonde one? It’s really just the PG Tips adverts redone as a governance freeze frame in oil and acrylic with nude monkeys...

Did anyone check for a shredder?

Tame compared to reality.

this should hang at BuckinghamPalace

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