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The mural appeared connected the broadside of a location successful Margate connected Valentine's Day successful 2023
A Banksy artwork which appeared successful Margate past twelvemonth has returned to the town.
The portion - called "Valentine's time mascara" - tin present beryllium viewed astatine Hornby Hobbies' The WonderWorks for escaped aft a stint astatine galleries successful London.
The mural, which appeared connected the broadside of a location successful the municipality connected Valentine's Day 2023, shows a 1950s housewife with a swollen oculus and missing tooth, seemingly shutting a antheral successful a freezer.
Olly Raeburn, Hornby Hobbies CEO, said the artwork had a "special place" successful Margate's heart.
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The freezer was removed by Thanet District Council to beryllium "made safe" and returned
The artwork had primitively been enactment on show successful the town's Dreamland taxable park.
Before its instrumentality to Margate, it had been astatine Yamaha Music London and Yield Gallery successful the capital.
The enactment by the Bristol creator had been valued astatine £6m and the nationalist was offered the chance to bargain shares successful the mural.
Anyone who owned 1 of the 27,000 shares, valued astatine £120 each, was eligible for benefits specified arsenic constricted variation prints.
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