Street artist Banksy’s infamous “Bandaged Heart” — which was carefully removed from the side of a Brooklyn warehouse — will hit the auction block in Miami along with two other works on Tuesday night, the owner of the artwork said.
The spray-painted art, which features a heart covered in Band-Aids on a slab of cement, is expected to fetch $400,000 to $600,000 at Fine Art Auctions, said owner Stephan Keszler, of Keszler Gallery in Manhattan.
Keszler paid thousands of dollars to remove the 1,500-pound piece from the side of a building in Red Hook and to seal up the 8-foot-by-11-foot hole left behind after Banksy finished his New York City tour this past fall, Keszler said.
Bansky’s piece “Crazy Horse Car Door,” which was created during Banksy’s Big Apple “residency,” will also be up for grabs at the auction on Tuesday. It features a figure of a muscular man spray-painted on a car door and is valued at $200,000 to $300,000, Keszler said.
A third piece, “Kissing Coppers” — a black-and-white stencil of two British cops embracing — will also be sold on Tuesday. It’s valued at $500,000 to $700,000 and was created in 2005.
Keszler declined to say how much he paid to remove the “Bandaged Heart,” saying only, “Less than I will sell it for.”
Banksy caused a stir by creating 30 pieces of street art in New York in October.
At least half of them have since been destroyed, mostly by other graffiti artists, sources told the Post in November.