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 ...

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: A banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at a Sotheby's art auction Maurizio Cattelan's art installation "Comedian" sold at auction at ...

Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian” (2019) was offered at Sotheby’s with an estimate of $1–1.5 million ... for the rights to tape a banana to a wall and call it Art, and each of them ultimately ...

of a banana affixed to a white wall with some common duct tape for $6.2 million. The “conceptual artwork” entitled Comedian by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, debuted in 2019 at the Art ...

Just as a banana can become art, cryptocurrency redefines what can ... high profile auctions when in 2019 he famously won a $4.5 million charity auction to have lunch with Warren Buffett.

A banana duct-taped to a wall says a lot about today’s art market, according to Carroll School of Management ... Sold at a Sotheby’s auction for an eye-popping sum of $6.5 million, the conceptual work ...