An oil painting by Banksy parodying a Claude Monet masterpiece sold in London yesterday for £7.6million. The price achieved by Sotheby's for Show Me the Monet is the second highest yet for the mysterious British artist. Five collectors pushed the winning bid to £7,551,600 against an expectation of between £3.5-5million. Created in 2005, the painting transforms Monet's A Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies into a fly-tipping spot, adding abandoned shopping trolleys and a traffic cone to the famous garden scene. Experts said it was one of the strongest and most iconic of the artist's works to go on sale. The painting is ... (full story)