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Banksy versus Warhol event opens
A woman walk past Banksy's Kate Moss from 2005 and Andy Warhol's Marilyn 29 from 1967 (far left)
The exhibition runs until 1 September
Work by Bristol's guerrilla artist Banksy is being displayed alongside 1960s pop artist Andy Warhol at an art gallery in London.

The exhibition, Warhol v Banksy, is being billed as the biggest ever display of privately-owned Banksy art.

Duncan Cargill, from The Hospital exhibition venue, said: "People are interested in the fact that he doesn't want to be known."

The exhibition, now open to the public, will run until 1 September.

Famous buyers

Banksy is well known for his art stunts, and is thought to have stencilled an Andy Warhol-style drawing on the pavement outside the Hospital.

He has also placed a painting of a can of Tesco Value tomato soup and a woman wearing a gas mask in New York galleries.

And two years ago, staff at the British Museum in London discovered his hoax exhibit on display - a cave painting of a primitive man pushing a supermarket trolley.

The Yate-born artist's work has become desirable among collectors with Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera among those reported to have bought his art.


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