This isn’t low-hanging fruit. Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” has fetched a phenomenal $6.2 million at auction at Sotheby’s in New York City. The Post re-created “Comedian” for the ...
Art is going bananas. Literally. Your average banana is now an objet d’art. Duct-taped to a wall and sold for over $6mn at Sotheby’s auction, it has the art world in a tizzy. Maurizio Cattelan ...
the 74-year-old employee from Bangladesh who sold the original banana used in “Comedian,” an absurdist commentary on the art world by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. And, it wouldn’t ...
The 'Duct Tape Art Banana' is a famous artwork composed by Maurizio Cattelan where one can see a banana duct taped to a wall. This artwork has taken internet by the storm as it appears a real ...
Was it a prank? A commentary on the state of the art world? Another artist took the banana off the wall and ate it. A backup banana was brought in. Selfie-seeking crowds became so thick, ...
The banana was purchased by Justin Sun, founder of cryptocurrency platform TRON. In a statement, Sun said the piece "represents a cultural phenomenon that bridges the worlds of art, memes ...
How much are you willing to pay for fruit? A crypto investor paid $6.2 million for a duct-taped banana art piece at a Sotheby's New York auction on Wednesday, the auction house confirmed.
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 ...
The piece of art, whose first version was made with a banana that cost 25 cents, on Wednesday went from a starting price of $800,000 to $5.2 million, plus a buyer's fee. "It's the market that has ...
It's being dubbed "peel-and-eat-art" because it's an actual banana duct-taped to a wall, and it just sold for a whopping $5.2 million. With the $1 million Sotheby's Auction house fees on top of ...