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'Valuable' pieces are fake says Banksy.


MILLIONS of pounds worth of works of art attributed to Banksy are fakes, the graffiti artist has revealed.

A body set up by the "guerilla artist" has identified 226 works of art that have been falsely attributed to him.

Banksy, whose work fetches hundreds of thousands of pounds at auction, has issued a statement urging people not to buy "street art" unless created for sale.

He said in a statement issued through his publicist pub·li·cist  
n.
One who publicizes, especially a press or publicity agent.


publicist
Noun

a person, such as a press agent or journalist, who publicizes something

publicist
: "Graffiti art has a hard enough life as it is - with council workers wanting to remove it and kids wanting to draw moustaches on it, before you add hedgefund managers wanting to chop See channel op.

1. CHOP - channel op
2. (language, tool) Chop - A code generator by Alan L. Wendt <wendt@CS.ColoState.EDU> for the lcc C compiler front end. Version 0.6 is interfaced with Fraser and Hanson's lcc front end.
 it out and hang it over the fireplace."
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Title Annotation:Features
Publication:Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date:Sep 27, 2008
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