Banksy's Slave Labour mural to be auctioned in London

20:40 • 02.06.13

A Banksy artwork that went missing from a wall in north London and was then withdrawn from an auction in the US is up for sale again later.

 

The mural, called Slave Labour, disappeared from Wood Green in February and appeared in a Miami auction, BBC reports.
It was removed from the lot after protests but it is now being offered for sale by the Sincura Group.

 

MP Lynne Featherstone has urged the owners of the mural to give it back to the residents of north London.
The mural, which depicts a boy hunched over a sewing machine making union jack bunting, appeared on the side of a Poundland store in May 2012, just before the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

 

Sincura said the mural had been "sensitively restored" and if the piece did not reach the reserve price it would be sold to a collector in the US.

Banksy's Slave Labour mural to be auctioned in London