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Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might sell for more than $1 million at an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s in New ...
If you thought the first price tag on Maurizio Cattelan’s viral banana duct-taped to a wall installation was obscene. This one might make you go bananas.
NEW YORK — A banana taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an art auction in New York on Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur. The piece of conceptual ...
The art world’s gone bananas. Five years after its creation, Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” — consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall — could fetch an eye-popping $1.5 million when ...
Some were enticed by the peculiar, yet simple, art. Others questioned if it could even be classified as "art." It was a banana against a white wall, held in place by a single piece of duct tape ...
File - A woman looks at artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece of art "Comedian" during an auction preview at Sotheby's in New York, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo ...
The art world’s gone bananas. Five years after its creation, Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” — consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall — could fetch an eye-popping $1.5 million when it is auctioned ...
The debate about whether Maurizio Cattelan’s banana duct-taped to a wall installation qualifies as art may be ongoing. But that hasn't stopped it from selling for millions of dollars at a Sotheby’s ...
A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday.
A piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency ...