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 Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan will auction a ripe banana duct-taped to a wall at Sotheby's in New York on November 20 2024.  Called 'Comedian', it is expected to sell for more than $1.5 million.

UPDATE :  Comedian sold for $9.57 million !! 

The buyer has purchased a certificate of authenticity that gives them the authority to duct-tape a banana to a wall and call it Comedian

 
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3 comments:

  1. Andy Warhol is very famous because he is the father of pop art, however the reason why he became famous was because of an exhibition. The exhibition was inspired by Yayoi Kusama, who was not yet famous at the time. When a person becomes famous, many of his works will be hotly discussed, and the style of his works is the current popular style. one of his many artworks is a banana, and this artist use this style to restore the banana that represents pop art. Sometimes people pay a premium for art. For example, the value of bananas is not the corresponding value of bananas as food, but the value of a historical art period and style. However, these people do not include me. In my opinion, indeed It represents an art, but it is also a banana itself. i appreciate and agree with its meaning, but I won't pay for it.

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  2. sold for nearly ten times the reserve price even though anyone can copy it [and then watch it quickly decompose...]

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