LONDON: One in all British road artist Banksy’s best-known work, Lady with Balloon, has been discovered after its theft from a London gallery final week with two males charged, police mentioned on Friday (Sep 13).
The work includes a younger lady reaching for a purple heart-shaped balloon and there are a number of murals depicting the identical picture in London and elsewhere.
The portray was the one merchandise stolen on Sep 8, police mentioned, including it could be returned to the gallery.
The 2 males, aged 47 and 53, have been charged with housebreaking on Thursday and stay in police custody.
They’ve already appeared in courtroom the place they have been bailed, and can subsequent seem earlier than a choose on Oct 9.
Lady with Balloon first appeared on the streets of London’s Shoreditch neighbourhood in 2002, with Banksy creating variations of the portray on London’s South Financial institution in 2004 and at Israel’s barrier on the West Financial institution in 2005.
Banksy rose to fame for sharply ironic out of doors graffiti with political themes. As soon as a small-time graffiti artist from the English metropolis of Bristol, his paintings has grow to be massively widespread and beneficial.
