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This banana art sold for $6.2 million — but we did it ourselves for just $5.75 By . Andrew Court. Published Nov. 20, 2024, 8:00 p.m. ET. This isn’t low-hanging fruit.
Now, the conceptual artwork has an estimated value of between $1 million and $1.5 million at Sotheby's auction on Nov. 20. Sotheby's head of contemporary art, David Galperin, calls it profound and ...
A backup banana was brought in. Selfie-seeking crowds became so thick, “Comedian” was withdrawn from view, but three editions of it sold for between $120,000 and $150,000, according to ...
Despite auctioneers selling about 1,600 works of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art within the last week, the only serious moment of excitement came from a $6.2 million banana.The ...
Did you hear the one about the $6.2 million banana? That's the price a piece of art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall fetched this week, up from a "mere" $120,000 it sold for five years ...
A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million ate the fruit in Hong Kong.
The art world’s gone bananas. Five years after its creation, Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” — consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall — could fetch an eye-popping $1.5 million when ...
A piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at an auction Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur.
CONCORD, N.H. — In Franconia, an eye-catching 5-foot banana sculpture was stolen last week, and now the organizers of an outdoor art exhibition are speaking out in hopes of getting their banana ...
A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall for $6.2million last week ate the fruit. Justin Sun ate the conceptual art project in ...