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Banksy's painting Game Changer, which pays tribute to front-line workers during the global COVID pandemic, set a world auction record after 14 minutes of auctioning. The buyer offered over £ 14.4 million and with an auction surcharge the price climbed to £ 16.8 million. (CZK 495 million!)

Proceeds from the sale of the artwork will go to support Southampton Hospital staff and patients and to affiliated health and charities in the UK that improve care and treatment provided by the National Health Service.

An image of a little boy playing with a nurse's doll as a superhero while Batman and Spiderman lie next to each other in a basket was delivered to a hospital in Southampton last May with a message saying, "Thanks for everything you do. I hope that this place will brighten you up a bit, even if it is only black and white. "

The world auction house Christie’s, which organized the auction, said that the price of £ 14.4 million for a work measuring 1x1m is a world auction record for Bansky. In addition, the price exceeded the original estimates, which ranged between 2.5 and 3.5 million pounds.

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