Photo by Tristan Fewings/Stringer/Getty Images. Clearly Banksy, leaving the audience wondering whether he was making a serious point about the impermanence of supposedly timeless art or just poking fun at them. Culture News Video. Images and a video later appear on Banksy’s Instagram, initially with the caption ‘Going, going, gone…” From the video above, it appears that Banksy himself or an agent of the man himself, may have been at auction and pressed the button to start the process. This was later confirmed by his agents ‘Pest Control’. January 16, 2019. Banksy’s Instagram account shared a photo of the shredded painting with the caption “going, going, gone …” The move has also been praised as “genius” by fans. View this post on Instagram Going, going, gone...A post shared by Banksy (@banksy) on Oct 5, 2018 at 6:45pm PDT An auction at Sotheby's Friday night featured a Banksy work titled Girl With Balloon. Or both! 'Going, going, gone': Banksy painting 'self-destructs' at auction . Home Culture Going Going Gone: Here's Where You Can Find Banksy's Famous Shredded Painting. Going, going, gone … Banksy art 'self-destructs' after selling for $1.9m at auction . A photo of the destroyed Banksy art being taken down. Posting a picture of the moment on Instagram, Banksy wrote: "Going, going, gone…" View this post on Instagram. With a secret shredder hidden within the walls of the painting's frame, the incident was capture live on video and Banksy himself used his Instagram feed to show the shocked look on the faces of those witnessing the moment as he declared: "Going, going, gone..." to his millions of followers. ... View this post on Instagram. It was a final sale of the night, and the framed work was bid up to slightly over a million pounds before the gavel went down. By: Amy Hansen. Going Going Gone: Here’s Where You Can Find Banksy’s Famous Shredded Painting.