A NEW Banksy-style artwork that appeared close to his Glasgow exhibition has been vandalised within 24-hours.
We told how a distinct Orange walk -inspired spray-painted artwork appeared on Springfield Court between Buchanan Street and Queen Street in Glasgow yesterday morning.
The mystery graffiti artist, whose works sell for £10million, opened his 'Cut and Run' exhibition at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art last week.
The new piece showed a rat playing a broken drum with 'God Save the King', wearing a sash and a Union Jack hat caught in a trap – and features a rolled up copy of The Sun newspaper.
But this morning, the street art had been scrawled over by a blue spray paint tag.
Art buffs stopped to admire the piece with many taking their phones out to capture the impressive graffiti.
A worker dressed head to toe in yellow high-vis ditched a pallet full of stock amid the tight alleyway as he stopped to admire the quirky spray painting.
It comes as Glasgow City Council revealed to the Scottish Sun they have no plan to preserve the piece.
The council confirmed it intends to remove the art work as part of their street cleansing policy as they do not consider the piece to be authentic.
The local authority added if anybody wants to see a 'true Banksy' they are to visit the GOMA.
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A Glasgow City Council spokeswoman said: “This image will be removed.
"We understand that it is not by Banksy.
"Anyone who wants to view a true Banksy should head to the exhibition at GOMA.”
But a council insider told the Scottish Sun: “I think that’s 100 percent a Banksy, we had one before and they painted over it.
“They don’t have a plan to preserve them, it’s madness to think they brought that huge exhibition to Glasgow and all the people coming to see it in a public building and they didn’t expect a few surprises.”
Although Glasgow City Council claims it's not a true Banksy, the official Instagram account of the Banksy Cut and Run exhibition has been sharing punters' images of the piece.
Posting the image of the rat with a drum to their account followed by over 22.5k people, they asked the question -"yes or no?"
Although there is divide over the authenticity of the image-the truth can only be confirmed by the Pest Control website.
Official Banksy artworks are verified through the artist's official website Pest Control.
Only those sanctioned for commercial sale, mostly his editions of silkscreen prints, get the certificate of authenticity – which includes a half a ripped tenner which Pest Control keep.
Street Art pieces made on walls or doors won’t get a certificate – with a few occasional exceptions – as they were never meant to be sold.
Banksy won’t condone their sale on the primary or secondary market.
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