Pop-punk hero Mark Hoppus has sold his Banksy painting at auction and netted himself a cool £4.3 million GBP ($7.95 million CAD).
Crude Oil (Vettriano) is Banksy's twist on The Singing Butler, a painting by Jack Vettriano showing a couple dancing on the beach. In Banksy's version, the maid is replaced by two people in hazmat suits carrying a barrel of oil, with a tanker wrecked in the background.
Hoppus bought the painting in 2011 and sold it to a private collector through Sotheby's on Tuesday (March 4).
Coincidentally, Vettriano died this past weekend (March 1) at home in Nice, France, at the age of 73.
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