LONDON: Certainly one of British avenue artist Banksy’s best-known work, Woman with Balloon, has been discovered after its theft from a London gallery final week with two males charged, police mentioned on Friday (Sep 13).
The work contains a younger woman reaching for a pink heart-shaped balloon and there are a number of murals depicting the identical picture in London and elsewhere.
The portray was the one merchandise stolen on Sep 8, police mentioned, including it might be returned to the gallery.
The 2 males, aged 47 and 53, have been charged with housebreaking on Thursday and stay in police custody.
They’ve already appeared in court docket the place they have been bailed, and can subsequent seem earlier than a decide on Oct 9.
Woman with Balloon first appeared on the streets of London’s Shoreditch neighbourhood in 2002, with Banksy creating variations of the portray on London’s South Financial institution in 2004 and at Israel’s barrier on the West Financial institution in 2005.
Banksy rose to fame for sharply ironic outside graffiti with political themes. As soon as a small-time graffiti artist from the English metropolis of Bristol, his art work has grow to be massively standard and useful.
