Love is in the Bin

Love is in the Bin
Girl with Balloon
ArtistBanksy 
Year5 October 2018
Mediumspray paint, acrylic paint, canvas, cardboard
Dimensions101 cm (40 in) × 78 cm (31 in) × 18 cm (7.1 in)
Preceded byCivilian Drone Strike
Followed byValentine's Banksy

Love is in the Bin is a 2018 art intervention by Banksy at Sotheby's London. According to Sotheby's, it is "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction." His 2006 painting of Girl with Balloon unexpectedly self-destructed immediately after it was sold at auction. The damaged painting was later renamed Love is in the Bin. It has been on permanent loan to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart since March 2019. In October 2021, it sold at auction for £18,582,000 (then equivalent to US$25,327,452 or €21,896,100), a record for the artist.