“被盗”的班克斯雕像，将在苏富比拍卖会上以130万美元成交

A Banksy statue is up for auction and expected to sell for over $1 million — but the identity of its rightful owner is in question.

班克斯的一尊雕像将被拍卖，预计将以100多万美元的价格出售，但其合法主人的身份仍有疑问。

The anonymous artist’s “The Drinker,” a riff on Auguste Rodin’s 19th-century “The Thinker” statue, was first installed in a small square off London’s Shaftesbury Avenue in March 2004 without official permission, the Guardian reports. The following month, rebel art collective Art Kieda took the traffic cone-hatted installation and moved it to the garden of group leader Andy Link (also known as AK47).

据英国《卫报》报道，2004年3月，这位匿名艺术家的作品《饮酒者》在未经官方许可的情况下，首次在伦敦沙夫茨伯里大街附近的一个小广场上展出。在接下来的一个月里，叛逆艺术团体art Kieda把这个交通锥帽装置搬到了组长Andy Link(也叫AK47)的花园里。

“I did it as a bit of a stunt, a bit of a prank,” Link tells CNN. He insists the statue was “abandoned and dumped” by Banksy, and after removing it, Art Kieda attempted to return the statue to the English street artist. Link even contacted the police to see if it had been reported stolen or lost.

林克在接受CNN采访时表示:“我这么做有点像作秀，有点像恶作剧。”他坚持认为这尊雕像是班克西“抛弃和抛弃”的，在搬走它之后，阿特·基达试图把雕像还给这位英国街头艺术家。林克甚至联系了警察，看它是否被盗或丢失。

Link kept it in his garden until 2007, when all but the traffic cone disappeared. He registered the piece as stolen on an art theft registry.

林克一直把它放在自己的花园里，直到2007年，除了交通锥标，其他的都消失了。他把这幅作品登记在艺术品失窃登记表上。

In 2014, a new owner acquired the piece with a fresh traffic cone added to its head, according to Sotheby’s. A documentary called “The Banksy Job,” which tells the story of the statue’s many owners and Link’s feud with Banksy, came out two years later.

据苏富比(Sotheby’s)称，2014年，一位新主人买下了这幅画，在它的头上又加了一个新的交通锥。两年后，一部名为《班克斯的工作》(The Banksy Job)的纪录片问世，讲述了这座雕像的许多主人以及林克与班克斯之间的不和。

Now, “The Drinker” is once again getting a new owner. Sotheby’s will hold a live auction for the statue — which “is accompanied by a Pest Control certificate” — on Tuesday. Its estimated worth is between $971,000 and $1.3 million.

现在，“酒徒”又有了新主人。苏富比将于周二为这尊雕像举行一场现场拍卖，“还附有一张害虫防治证书”。它的估价在97.1万美元到130万美元之间。

Link argues, however, the statue is rightfully his and that he has police documents to prove it. London’s Metropolitan police tell CNN there is no active criminal investigation into the case.

然而，林克辩称，这座雕像是属于他的，他有警方文件证明这一点。伦敦警察厅告诉CNN，目前还没有对这起案件进行积极的刑事调查。