He was stunned to hear what his banana went for at auction ... snapping bananas free of their bunches, he learned from a reporter what had become of the fruit: It had been duct-taped to a wall ...
74-year-old Shah Alam runs a fruit stand outside of Sotheby’s in Manhattan, where he sold the banana which ended up in the art piece. His bananas sell for £0.20 each, or £0.79 for a bunch.
A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong on Friday HONG ...
He does a brisk business in cheap fruit outside Sotheby’s auction house; inside, art can sell for millions. But last Wednesday, Alam sold a banana that ... free of their bunches, he learned ...
The Upper East Side fruit vendor who sold a $6.2 million banana for pennies is still feeling rotten over his end of the deal. Shah Alam, 74, recently learned that a piece of his produce was used ...
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