Art Basel gallery owner Emmanuel Perrotin in 2019 attaching a banana with duct-tape on the wall where the artwork Comedian was exhibited. (Reuters: Eva Marie Uzcategui)Five years later, someone ...

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 ...

Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-tape banana, called "Comedian", was a phenomenon when it debuted in 2019 at Art Basel Miami Beach, as festivalgoers tried to make out whether the single ...

This duct-taped banana art piece is worth at least $1 million. Here's why The yellow banana fixed to the white wall with silver duct tape is a work entitled “Comedian,” by Italian artist ...

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 Selfie-seeking crowds became so thick, “Comedian” was withdrawn from view, but three editions of it sold for between $120,000 and $150,000, according to ...

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 ...

Maurizio Cattelan's provocative art piece 'Comedian', a banana duct-taped to a wall, will be auctioned by Sotheby's in New York City. The buyer receives a certificate of authenticity and ...

The banana duct-taped to a wall was sold yesterday at Sotheby's in New York for a whopping $6.2million (£4.9million). Maurizio Cattelan's art piece is understood to have been bought by Justin Sun ...

Chinese cryptocurrency founder Justin Sun made headlines on Nov. 20 when he spent $6.24 million on the rights to "Comedian," an art installation in which a banana was duct taped to a wall.

NEW YORK — A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday. “Comedian,” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan ...