Sotheby's sells Cattelan's banana taped to wall for 6.2 mn

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 21 - An art collector has paid 6.2 million dollars for 'Comedian', Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's work of conceptual art featuring a fresh banana taped to a wall at a Sotheby's auction in New York. The debut of the artwork at the Art Basel show in Miami Beach in 2019 sparked an uproar after an artist who was part of the performance, David Datuna, detached the banana from the stand of the Perrotin Gallery where it was on display and ate it in front of the stunned visitors. (ANSA).