Banksy Sweeping It Under The Carpet

Just for the record the Independent newspaper initially claimed that another version of this was 'commissioned' by them to appear at the junction of Regents Park Road and Chalk Farm Road. This has since been retracted by the Independent and absolutely refuted on Banksy's website: "Banksy does not do graffiti commissions for national newspapers and is unlikely to start at any point in the near future". 

Banksy explained the meaning behind the pictures: "In the bad old days, it was only popes and princes who had the money to pay for their portraits to be painted,

This is a portrait of a maid called Leanne who cleaned my room in a Los Angeles motel. She was quite a feisty lady."

STATUS: Buffed.       

All photographs copyright artofthestate 2006

Banksy Sweeping It Under The Carpet

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