Bansky Adds Nazi to Thrift Store Painting, For Charity
Store auctioning painting online, bids upward of $200,000
Banksy's latest work is a Nazi who's raising big bucks for charity.
The cagey street artist surprised the Housing Works Thrift Shop in Gramercy on Tuesday by returning a pastoral oil painting he had bought for $50, after he added a Nazi soldier sporting a swastika armband.
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