Locals admiring his newest Banksy work in London suggested the prime suspect might have let his mask slip by turning up at the scene and being caught on camera.
Fans who thought they had identified the real Banksy could be disappointed after a mystery man spotted at the scene claimed he was just a builder - and not even a fan of the mural.
The retired builder revealed himself to be the father of the building's landlord Alex Georgiou, who previously spoke to MailOnline about his plans for the property. Now George said of those who photographed him: 'Instead of just whipping a picture, they should've just said who are you? Would've been so much easier.He told the Sun he had spent almost £2,500 on Perspex for the mural so far and has 24/7 security protecting it.
The MoS's 2008 investigation published a photograph taken in Jamaica in 2004 showing a man with a bag of spray cans by his feet - which was identified as Mr Gunningham.George added: 'Every day there is 400-500 people, every day. I came by Sunday morning, around 9am - there were at least 200 people and it was a miserable day.
The pictures of the man who was said to be Banksy were taken on Saturday morning - but he has now identified himself as George Giorgiou and nothing to do with the artistThe mural shows an abstract appearance of foliage next to a stencil of a person holding a pressure hose His artwork Girl With Balloon self-destructed in a Sotheby's London saleroom when descending into a shredder in 2018.
The Mail On Sunday investigation identified Banksy as Mr Gunningham, Bristol-born son of former contracts manager Peter Gunningham and his wife, company director's secretary Pamela. Who is Banksy? A former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia, Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja or Gorillaz founder Jamie Hewlett, the theories behind the identity of the world's most elusive street artist
The work, previously known as Girl With Balloon, was just one of more than a dozen of Banksy's creations that have sold for more than £2million. It was painted by the artist over three days in broad daylight and is still in the city today, among some of Banksy's other works. They used 'geographic profiling' - a technique more often used to catch criminals or track outbreaks of disease - to plot the locations of 192 of Banksy's presumed artworks.
In anonymous interviews he has done, Banksy has said he first became interested in graffiti at school. The assumption that Del Naja could be Banksy was first discussed after DJ Goldie reportedly said his name on a podcast while talking about him. Banksy has also designed work used in Gorillaz music videos in the past but any link has been denied by his publicist.It has also been suggested that Jamie Hewlett, who founded Gorillaz, could be Banksy
After he began walking away she raced after the man, who turned and tried to block the camera with his hand, shouting 'f*** off, f*** off', before escaping down an alley.In 2013, many believed Banksy's identity had finally been revealed and Twitter blew up after user @DjJonHenry posted photographs of a group of men and two trucks used for Banksy's recent Sirens Of The Lambs and Waterfall mobile works of art.
The pictures were taken in the Red Hook area of Brooklyn and the photographer approached the men after recognizing the vehicles from Banksy's on-going month-long residency The French film-maker, who runs a vintage clothing shop and obsesses over filming his surroundings, became famous after the documentary and rumours spread that he was Banksy.Theiry Guetta, a street artist in Los Angeles who goes by the name Mr Brainwash was also caught up in Banksy speculationMost theories assume Banksy is a man, but some rumours emerged that the artist is actually a woman in charge of a group of artists.
The show featured a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II as a chimpanzee, one of Winston Churchill with a grass Mohican and two live pigs painted in the blue and white check worn by the Metropolitan Police.
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