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Have you ever seen a painting destroy 【小题1】 (it)? This strange event happened during a recent auction (拍卖) in London.

Girl With Balloon is one of the most well-known works of British artist Banksy. It 【小题2】 (sell) for £1.04 million (about 9.49 million yuan) at the Sotheby auction house on Oct 5. However, shortly 【小题3】 the hammer (锤子) went down, the painting began to slide down its frame (画框) and half of the painting was cut into 【小题4】 (piece)!

In fact, there 【小题5】 (be) a shredder (碎纸机) in the frame. More surprisingly, the artist might have set the shredder in the frame himself years ago, Yahoo News reported.

Banksy is known 【小题6】 being mysterious and unpredictable. No one knows his real name, 【小题7】 his paintings are everywhere across the UK. He always plays hoaxes (恶作剧) on the art world.

People believe this is just another example of Banksy 【小题8】 (play) a trick. They think he is against the commercialization (商品化) of art.

However, the 【小题9】 (fun) part is that this hoax might have made the painting more valuable. “(The price is) possibly as high as being worth £2 million (about 18.2 million yuan) plus,” Joey Syer, 【小题10】 (found) of art website MyArtBroker.com, told the Guardian.