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image captionThe Banksy artwork was lifted from the side of the house by a crane on Friday
Banksy artwork removed from the wall of a house in Bristol is set to be sold in an online auction.
The artwork depicts a woman sneezing so hard that she loses her false teeth.
Netherlands-based auctioneers Hessink s has confirmed it will be offering the item for sale at a public auction to be held in the coming weeks.
image captionThe artwork was boarded-up and out of sight for several weeks before it was removed for auction
It was spotted at the bottom of one of the steepest streets in the UK, Vale Street, on 12 December, with Banksy confirming it was his on Instagram shortly afterwards.
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A Banksy mural which appeared overnight on the side of a house on England s steepest road just before it was sold was today removed.
The piece, entitled Aachoo! , was first discovered on the external wall of the semi-detached property on Vale Street in Totterdown, Bristol, last December.
The image depicted an elderly woman sneezing and created the illusion that the force of the pensioner s sneeze had knocked over houses built above it.
Today crowds of onlookers nervously watched on as workers began the delicate and arduous task of removing the piece from the property by crane after it appeared to have been sold.
Gutting removal of Banksy mural leaves neighbourhood in mourning It s public art, which it seems will now be put into private ownership
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