Banksy new lighthouse artwork confirmed to be in Marseille

The new piece of street art depicts the shadow of a lighthouse emerging out of a bollard.

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Images posted on the elusive artist's Instagram depict a lighthouse stencilled on a drab, beige wall, along with the words: "I want to be what you saw in me."

A false shadow appears to have been drawn on the pavement from a nearby bollard, giving the illusion that the lighthouse is itself a silhouette of the mundane street furniture.

Its location was initially a mystery, but BBC Verify has confirmed it as Rue Félix Fregier in the southern French city.

An image of the art circulating online shows a blurred person riding a scooter in front of the piece, with a graffiti tag seemingly reading "Yaze" further along the wall.