Banana artwork could be sold for a high price at auction
Published: Friday, Oct 25th 2024, 18:40
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A banana attached to the wall with adhesive tape could fetch up to 1.5 million dollars (around 1.4 million euros) at an art auction in New York, according to auction house Sotheby's. The work entitled "Comedian" by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan is to be auctioned in November, Sotheby's announced.
Cattelan, who is known for his often bizarre sculptures, presented the banana installation at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019 and set a price of 120,000 dollars. The American performance artist David Datuna then tore the banana off the wall and ate it. A few years later, there was a similar incident in a museum in South Korea, where an art student took the fruit off the wall, peeled it, ate it and then stuck the peel back on the wall.
Cattelan did not mind, it was said. According to his instructions, the ripe banana on the wall should be replaced every two or three days.
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