Music Hoppus, from Blink-182, brings Banksy’s work to auction musician can earn about $ 35 million for the artist’s painting

Mark Hoppusfrom BLINK-182is falling apart from a work of the Banksy.

The singer owns the painting “Crude Oil (Vettrian)” (2005) since 2011, when he acquired it in London. The piece is a rereading of “The Singing Butler”, creation of Jack Vettrianand is part of a series of works that satirize others, including “The Sunflowers” Van gogh.

The bids to ensure the board should start next month in London, according to the Sotheby’s Auction House.

There is a long tradition of visual art in skateboarding. Many skaters with whom I grew up are amazing painters, photographers, designers or weirdons that edited skate videos far beyond what people thought a skate video could be. Same with punk rock. We used to draw our own t -shirt designs and make our own screen. We set up pamphlets for our shows in the early hours of our local Kinkos. We had no label or support, so we just did everything ourselves. I feel that street art has the same spirit. Punk Rock. Hip hop. Skateboard. Street art. The excluded and ignored creating their own reality. – Mark Hoppus

THE Associated Pressthe musician also said that the work was hung in his homes in Los Angeles and London. “[Minha esposa e eu] We love this painting from the moment we have seen it, “he added.

Sotheby’s estimates to auction the picture for a value between three and five million pounds – about $ 21 million to $ 35 million. Hoppus You want to use the money to buy works by new artists and make donations for California Fire Foundation, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Cedars Sinai Hematology Oncology Research.