Above the building towers is a crane, with a red light visible at night at the top – perhaps an allusion to a Christmas tree.<\/p>\n
An almost identical artwork also appeared a few kilometres away under the multi-storey Centre Point building in Tottenham Court Road, where the two children can be seen looking up at the London skyscraper.<\/p>\n
Both images attracted interest from passers-by and generated much speculation on social media about whether Banksy was behind them.<\/p>\n
But by 4pm only the Queens Mews artwork had been posted on Banksy\u2019s social media.<\/p>\n
In September, the artist took aim at Britain\u2019s crackdown on protesters with a new work outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, adding fuel to a free-speech row rocking the country.<\/p>\n
The artist posted an image of the work, which features a judge wielding a gavel over a protester on the ground holding a blood-splattered placard, on his Instagram page.<\/p>\n
The work was later covered by black plastic sheets and two metal barriers.<\/p>\n
It appeared after hundreds of people were arrested at a demonstration against a ban on the activist group Palestine Action.<\/p>\n
In May this year, one of his paintings, which reimagines Jack Vettriano\u2019s famous The Singing Butler, sold for nearly \u00a34.3 million ($10m) at an auction in London, auction house Sotheby\u2019s said.<\/p>\n
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