MADRID — A painting by the 80-year-old Spanish artist who became famous for her botched restoration of a Christ fresco in a small-town church has fetched €1,080 ($1,421) on eBay.

It rests on a platform in the center of the room, a 100-plus pound plasticine monkey, sitting with his knees crouched up into its stomach. Hirsch says there’s more than $1,000 of clay in there.

Sweet monkey Jesus, it's a hit! A Spanish painter's botched fresco restoration, which made the Son of God look more like the Son of Alf, raised £50,000 ($72,500) from more than 70,000 visitors ...

There was a painting done by a Rhino (although I'm pretty sure he just stepped on the paper) and there were several there done by monkeys! Naturally we had to buy one.

“I only paint monkeys as a metaphor for human beings. We turn the concept back on the racists, as we are all monkeys originally. So I painted a Western monkey, an Asian monkey and a black monkey.” ...