Contractors overseeing the planned demolition say they had no idea the painting was the artist's work. 

The latest work by Banksy appears to be no more. The site of Banksy's latest work, titled Morning is Broken, an outside wall of a derelict farmhouse in the seaside town of Herne Bay in Kent, has been demolished. The anonymous British street artist posted photographs on Instagram of the silhouette of a young boy with his cat appearing to draw open metal curtains covering a boarded-up window in a dilapidated farmhouse in Herne Bay, a seaside town in Kent, U.K.—and of a construction crew midway though tearing down the structure.

In typical Banksy fashion, the artist shared few details about the work or the circumstances surrounding its destruction. Was it a commentary on the Iron Curtain? Was he complicit in its razing—perhaps even the construction worker standing with his back to the camera seemingly overseeing the demolition?

"We had no idea it was a Banksy," contractor George Caudwell told Kent Online. "It made me feel sick realizing it was a Banksy—we were gutted.""We started demolishing it yesterday. The landowner watched us do it and didn't know either."

After learning of the work's provenance, the builders quickly began sifting through the rubble to see if the piece was still intact. Fortunately, one section of plywood showing most of the stenciled figure survived. 

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