Banksy work sells for over 2 million US dollars

auction house Soby’s held an online sale on Tuesday featuring artwork spanning five centuries of art history, from Rembrandt to Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró to Banksy.

After months of disruption due to coronavirus outbreak, sale of 70 artworks - from 17th century up to present day - was live-streamed from Soby’s London.

auction included a triptych by Banksy called “Mediterranean Sea View,” painted in 2017.

Presented in elaborate tritional frames, it features orange life jackets and alludes to lives lost at sea during European migrant crisis.

Proceeds from paintings, which fetched 1,850,000 pounds sterling (2,395,000 US dollars) will raise money for a hospital in Bethlehem.

(Representative Im)