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Waking up with a Banksy on your wall: The differing fortunes of two homeowners

James Peak
Presenter, The Banksy Story
AFP Artwork by Banksy showing a a 1950s housewife with a swollen eye, missing a tooth, and apparently shutting a man in a freezer, on the side of a house in Margate on14 February 2023AFP

Sam was lying in bed one morning when her tenant in a house she owned in Margate sent her a photo of a piece of graffiti that had appeared on the wall outside.

Astonishingly, it looked like a Banksy. It would turn out to be perhaps the graffiti artist's most interesting new artwork of recent years, Valentine's Day Mascara (pictured above), which was revealed in Margate on Valentine's Day, 2023.

Bamboozled, Sam googled: what do you do when you wake up with a Banksy on your wall?

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