Banksy reveals fourth new artwork… and it’s stolen within an hour

The piece of art features a lone wolf against a satellite dish howling towards the sky

A new piece of art erected by Banksy in London was stolen on Thursday, within an hour of it being revealed.
The piece – the fourth erected by the street artists in the capital this week – was located in Rye Lane, Peckham, and showed a lone wolf against a satellite dish howling towards the sky.
But photographs showed a group of masked men climbing up and grabbing the dish before carrying it away within hours of it being unveiled.
The piece had been revealed on Banksy’s official Instagram page – which he has always used to verify his work.
A witness to the removal of the piece of Banksy artwork has described his encounter with those taking it.
Tom Kellow, who lives in Peckham, said he had decided to walk down to Rye Road to see the artwork on his lunch break.
He told the PA news agency: “I was walking down around 1pm and saw three guys nicking it. They had a ladder. There was one guy on the roof and the other two were watching the ladder.
“They saw me filming and it got a bit tetchy. One gave me a kick in the side and another tried to throw my phone on the roof. Luckily it hit a tree and came back down again.
“I told a police officer in the area about it. It’s a great shame we can’t have nice things and it’s a shame it couldn’t have lasted more than an hour.”
It is thought the thieves are hoping to cash in on what they may believe is a lucrative black market trade in works by the artist.
Due to his prominence, however, selling a stolen Banksy can be difficult. In 2022 three men in their 30s were imprisoned in France for the theft and handling of a Banksy painting paying homage to the victims of the 2015 attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.
Six months later, in a separate incident, eight people were detained over the theft of a Banksy mural from a wall on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukrainian authorities said.
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Each piece by Banksy that has appeared this week has been posted at 1pm each afternoon.
The wolf wall painting appeared after Banksy revealed a mountain goat, elephants and monkeys on walls around London.
The first new work by the Bristol-based artists appeared on Monday and shows a goat precariously balancing on a pillar as rocks fall below it, just above where a CCTV camera is pointed, on the side of the former Caxton Name Plate Manufacturing Company premises on Kew Green in Kew, West London.
Then two elephants appeared with their trunks reaching out to each other in the bricked up windows of a house on Edith Terrace, Chelsea, where the average price of a home reached over £750,000 last year.
On Wednesday three monkeys appeared on the side of a concrete railway bridge crossing Brick Lane, near a vintage clothing shop and a coffee house in the East London market street, close to Shoreditch High Street.
He did not write a caption for any of the Instagram posts, which has fuelled speculation online about their meaning, although the primates have been associated with the Japanese proverb “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”.
In December last year, another Banksy piece in Peckham was stolen shortly after being unveiled.The installation – three aircraft resembling military drones on a stop sign – was removed by a man with bolt cutters.
The four new works came after a migrant boat created by Banksy, which was crowd surfed at Glastonbury Festival in June, during performances by Idles, the Bristol indie punk band, and Little Simz, the rapper.
It was described by then-home secretary James Cleverly as “trivialising” small boats crossings and “vile”, but the artist responded saying his reaction was a “a bit over the top”.
In March, Banksy created a tree mural in north London, which saw a tree being cut back with green paint sprayed behind it to give the impression of foliage.