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.css-po6dm6-ItalicText{font-style:italic;}Follow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. budget bunk-bedded dormitories to a presidential suite. Thousands rally to support beheaded French teacher, Lives that could be reshaped by US Supreme Court, Arctic Circle teens call for help to save their homes. Sotheby’s presents works of art by Banksy. Three Banksy paintings have been sold at auction for $2.9 million, with proceeds earmarked for a Palestinian hospital. The paintings were created for Banksy’s Walled Off hotel in Bethlehem, which boasts “the worst view of any hotel in the world” – a reference to the barrier it looks out on to, separating Israel from the Palestinian territories. Video, Are white women voters wavering on Trump? .css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}A trio of Banksy paintings has sold for more than £2.2m ($2.9m) at an auction in London, with the proceeds being donated to a hospital in Bethlehem. A triptych of what seem to be tempestuous 19th century seascapes but are actually politically charged works by Banksy is to appear at auction to raise money for a hospital in Bethlehem. Proceeds from the triptych’s sale will go towards a new acute stroke unit and buying children’s rehabilitation equipment for the BASR hospital in Bethlehem. Each accuses the other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire agreed on Saturday. It will be sold at a Sotheby’s evening auction on Tuesday 28 July titled Rembrandt to Richter. Mediterranean Sea View 2017 donated by artist to raise money for Bethlehem hospital, Sun 26 Jul 2020 16.50 BST VideoAre white women voters wavering on Trump? Are white women voters wavering on Trump? The works had been on display in the Walled Off Hotel that Banksy helped set up in 2017 in Bethlehem. VideoRobot dolphins and a skeleton worth millions, Queues in China for experimental Covid-19 vaccine. Last modified on Mon 27 Jul 2020 22.02 BST. It opened in 2017 and is a political statement as well as functioning hotel. The three traditionally framed paintings appear to be Romantic-era seascapes but the life buoys and orange life jackets being washed on to the shore tell a a different story. The hotel is also home to the largest collection of Banksy’s work. In 2015, he created a dystopian theme park, Dismaland, in the British seaside town of Weston-super-Mare featuring boats filled with migrants and an anarchist training camp. A spokesperson said Banksy was welcome to recreate his message "in a suitable location". Alex Branczik, Sotheby's head of contemporary art for Europe, said prior to the auction: "In Mediterranean Sea View 2017, Banksy corrupts three found oil paintings with his own witty reworkings to create something that, while posing as a 19th-Century seascape, spotlights one of the burning issues of the 21st Century. The 2010s were marked by countless refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea on, Banksy's paintings, which fetched far more than the expected price of $1 million to $1.5 million, were previously displayed in the lobby of the, The England-based artist has addressed the migrant crisis in numerous works, including a 2016 portrait of, Banksy said at the time that the portrait was meant to dispel misconceptions about migrants. The triptych of paintings reference the European refugee crisis. "Apple is the world's most profitable company, it pays over $7bn (£4.6bn) a year in taxes -- and it only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs. The lot, titled "Mediterranean Sea View 2017," comprises three reworked oil paintings depicting romantic seascapes, to which the anonymous street artist and political activist added life jackets and lifebuoys to highlight the European migrant crisis. Video, Robot dolphins and a skeleton worth millions, Queues in China for experimental Covid-19 vaccine. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. The triptych was created for display over a rubble-filled fireplace in the colonial-styled hotel lobby. The sale includes a rare Picasso drawing of his lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter and one of the last Rembrandt self-portraits left in private hands. In another work, The Son of a Migrant from Syria, the artist depicted Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who was the son of a Syrian immigrant, carrying a knapsack and an Apple computer. ", Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation (BASR). Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s head of contemporary art for Europe, said Banksy had taken three found oil paintings and created a work that spotlighted one of the burning issues of the 21st century. Three Banksy paintings raise $2.9 million at auction for Palestinian hospital. Video, Arctic Circle teens call for help to save their homes, Philippines artificial beach 'bad for environment' Video, Philippines artificial beach 'bad for environment', 'A year of rising and fading hopes' in Beirut.

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