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 ...

An art installation of a banana duct taped to a wall that was previously hailed as a 'defiant work of pure genius' has sold at Sotheby's in New York for $6.2 million. Italian artist Maurizio ...

(image courtesy Sotheby’s) This was not just any banana ... only assume were mounting prices for the rights to tape a banana to a wall and call it Art, and each of them ultimately decided ...

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At one point during the exhibition, one man even took the banana off the wall and ate it. So, it was no surprise that the artwork was "taken down for public safety reasons," according to Sotheby's ...

A banana duct-taped to a wall says a lot about today’s art market, according to Carroll School of Management Associate Professor of Marketing Henrik Hagtvedt, author of the just-released Money and ...

The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” consists of a banana duct-taped to a blank white wall. One edition of the work was purchased at Sotheby’s this past November for over $6 ...