The art work, a ten-by-thirteen-inch neoclassical portrait in a cheap gilt frame, depicted a woman in a gas mask. The intruder then placed a placard next to the painting; it read “Banksy ...

Steve Cotton / Art of the State Banksy melds street-fighting passion ... had found and modified to depict the subject wearing a gas mask) to a wall in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Banksy Breaks Silence to Reveal He's the Artist Behind 'Great British Spraycation ... another shows a woman wearing a gas mask with a fire extinguisher, and another appears to show kids using ...

The exhibition also features Banksy’s graffiti piece “Woman in a Gas Mask,” which the anonymous British street artist painted in Hostomel, Kyiv Region, after the town was liberated from Russian forces ...

Banksy’s work has appeared in other conflict zones too. In November 2022, the artist visited Kyiv ... standing in her dressing gown, wearing a gas mask. A month later it was stolen.