Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might sell for more than $1 million at an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s in New York.

An urgent message to starving artists the world over–why eat your groceries if you can lob them on the wall for a $1,499,999 mark-up? The viral duct-taped banana art installation ‘Comedian’, brainchild of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan,

A simple experimental art piece consisting of a banana attached to the wall with duct tape is expected to fetch over $1 million at auction this week.

Although the banana itself is perishable and will not be part of the sale, buyers will receive a certificate of authenticity that allows them to recreate the piece by placing a banana and duct tape on a wall themselves.

The yellow banana fixed to the white wall with silver duct tape is a work entitled "Comedian," by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. It first debuted in 2019 as an edition of three fruits at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, where it became a much-discussed ...

Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might sell for more

The conceptual artwork has an estimated value of between $1 million and $1.5 million at Sotheby’s auction on Nov. 20.

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