The founder of Blink-182 Mark sells a Banksy picture

Mark Hoppus, who has created three albums with Blink -182, will donate part of the funds raised by the sale to California Fire Foundation and two medical associations in Los Angeles – The Child Life Program of the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Cedars Sinai Hematology Oncology Research – following the devastating fires that hit the city.

“We loved this painting from the moment we saw it,” Hoppus said in a press release, who purchased the work in 2011. “Banksy is unmistakably, but different. We bought it because we liked it. It was the witness of our family in the last twelve years: he was hanging over the table in London where we had breakfast and our son did his homework. He was hung in our living room in Los Angeles. He saw laughter and tears, parties and discussions “.

“Crude Oil (Vettriano)” was exhibited in the first Bansky exhibition in 2005 in Notting Hill, entitled “Crude Oils: A Gallery of Re-Mixed Masterpieces, Vandalism, and Verin”. The work is a reinterpretation of the painting “The Singing Butler” (the 1992 butler) of the Scottish artist Jack Vettriano. The exhibition was exhibited together with the reinterpretations of Banksy of Van Gogh’s sunflowers, Edward Hopper’s seals and Painny’s garden paintings from Monet.

“This is not just an iconic Banksy, it is a Banksy that has been appreciated by the legend of music Mark Hoppus, who fell in love with this work for his rebellious spirit, his crudeness and his expression without filters: the foundations that Mark’s world also shaped: the punk culture, “said Oliver Barker, president of Sotheby’s Europe, in a press release. “Street art and punk rock share the same vocabulary: they speak of the outsider, the rebel and the neglected. Both movements were born from the margins. They challenge the authority and rewrite the rules, a fundamental trait shared by Mark and Banksy. Now, sharing ‘raw Oil (Vectoria)’ with the world, Mark will open his eyes to others on the real power that art can have: that of Stimulate the conversation and to challenge the way we see the world around us “.