How much does a banana cost? $120,000 at Art Basel
Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s work, Comedian, is a piece of fruit duct-taped to a wall – and it sold for over $100,000
Sometimes a banana is just a banana. And sometimes, like the one duct-taped to a wall that sold for $120,000 this week, it’s an expensive piece of art.
The questionably genius work by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was being shown by the international gallery Perrotin at Art Basel in Miami when it was sold. One in a series of three, a second version of the piece has also been sold for a similar price, Perrotin told the Guardian.