Banksy's balloon girl chosen as nation's favourite artwork
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Banksy's mural of a girl letting go of a heart-shaped balloon has been voted the nation's favourite artwork.
The image, which was daubed onto a London shop 15 years ago, was chosen above the likes of Constable's Hay Wain and Jack Vettriano's Singing Butler.
Some 2,000 people chose their favourite artwork from a shortlist of 20 works drawn up by arts editors and writers.
The Fighting Temeraire, by JMW Turner, and Antony Gormley's The Angel Of The North sculpture completed the top five.
Banksy, an anonymous street artist from Bristol, painted the Balloon Girl onto the wall of a printing shop in Shoreditch in 2002.
A decade later a version of the image, painted onto cardboard, sold at auction for £73,250.
Then in 2014 the original stencil mural was removed from the wall of the shop to be exhibited and then sold.
The poll, carried out by Samsung, results in full:
Banksy; Balloon Girl
John Constable; The Hay Wain
Jack Vettriano; The Singing Butler
JMW Turner; The Fighting Temeraire
Antony Gormley; The Angel of the North
L S Lowry; Going to the Match
John William Waterhouse; The Lady of Shalott
Peter Blake; Sgt Pepper album cover
Hipgnosis and George Hardie; Dark Side of the Moon album cover
George Stubbs; Mares and Foals
Thomas Gainsborough; Mr and Mrs Andrews
John Everett Millais; Ophelia
Andy Goldsworthy; Balanced Rock Misty
David Hockney; A Bigger Splash
Bridget Riley; Movement in Squares
Anish Kapoor; ArcelorMittal Orbit
Stik; A Couple Hold Hands in the Street
Maggi Hambling; Scallop
Henry Moore; Reclining Figure
Jamie Reid; Never Mind the Bollocks album cover
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