But after London-based art dealer MyArtBroker said on Instagram that the artwork is in the southern French port city of Marseille, the Associated Press has tracked it down to a street near the city’s port.
The graffiti artwork, which has appeared on a wall, is of a lighthouse and features a message which reads: “I want to be what you saw in me.”
The lighthouse has been made to look like it is the shadow of a bollard that is on the edge of the pavement.
Banksy, an anonymous graffiti artist from Bristol, shared two photos of the artwork on his Instagram page on Thursday, triggered speculation over where it may be.
Banksy’s artworks often address issues such as war, poverty, government corruption, consumerism, and social injustice.
However, any potential meaning of his latest street art is not immediately clear.
MyArtBroker has speculated that Banksy’s work touches on “perspective, meaning and marginalised voices” because Marseille is a “hub for migration and cultural exchange”.
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The quote used by Banksy could have been taken from a song by Tennessee-based country band Lonestar, called Softly, which features the lyric: “I want to be what you see in me. I want to love you the way that you love me.”
Last year, a swathe of animal-themed Banksy works including a rhino seemingly mounting a silver Nissan Micra, two elephant silhouettes with their trunks stretched out towards each other, and three monkeys that looked as though they were swinging on a bridge, appeared across London.
Another Banksy artwork showed a gorilla lifting the shutter at London Zoo.
