Love Is in the Bin resells for £18.6 million

OCT 14 2021

The half-shredded canvas returned to Sotheby's three years later and sold for £18.58 million, roughly eighteen times its pre-shredding price and a record for the artist at the time. The sale completed the joke's inversion: a gesture intended to puncture the art market's valuation logic became the single strongest demonstration of it.