Banksy`s Parliament of Chimpanzees to come to auction ahead of Brexit deadline
(Artdaily.org)

Banksy’s derisive portrayal of The House of Commons reduced to an assembly of parliamentary primates, will go on public display in London for the first time at Sotheby’s just a mile away from The Palace of Westminster. The exhibition will run from September 28 – October 3, ahead of the next scheduled ‘Brexit Day’. Spanning an impressive thirteen feet, this is the largest known canvas by the anonymous street artist whose subversive practice has granted him a reputation of infamy as much as world renown. The exhibition of Devolved Parliament (2009) will be followed by an auction on the evening of October 3, in which the painting is estimated to sell for between £1.5-2 million ($1.8-2.46 million). The sale comes exactly a year after Banksy himself intervened in a Sotheby’s auction, when ‘the nation’s favourite artwork’ Girl with Balloon auto-destructed as the gavel came down on 5 October 201