Trick ruler Banksy decidedly out-hindered himself by setting off a self-destruct component in one of his works instantly after it sold at sale—for $1.4 million. 

A duplicate of the road craftsman's celebrated "Inflatable Girl" wall painting was sold at London's Sotheby's closeout house Friday night. Be that as it may, when the salesperson's mallet fell, the work started devastating itself by means of a shredder covered up inside its casing. 

"It shows up we just got Banksy-ed," Sotheby's senior executive Alex Branczik revealed to The Art Newspaper. The bartering house discharged an announcement saying that it was talking about "subsequent stages" with the amazed purchaser. 

In spite of the fact that the trick was only the kind of evident and ham-fisted study of power and realism that Banksy has been pulling for what presently feels like hundreds of years, "Inflatable Girl" may, unreasonably enough, end up being worth more cash destroyed than it was unblemished. 

"You could contend that the work is presently more important," said Branzik. "It's positively the primary piece to be immediately destroyed as a sale closes."