Maurizio Cattelan's iconic banana
stuck to the wall with scotch tape is going up for auction for
the first time with a starting estimate of at least one million
dollars.
It is a mind-boggling figure for the work by the famous
64-year-old Padua-born conceptual artist and self-professed
'joker' that in 2019, causing a stir, was sold for over $120,000
amid countless controversies on the meaning of a work of art.
'Comedian', which Sotheby's will offer to the highest bidder on
November 20 in New York, is one of three editions of the banana
that debuted in December five years ago at the major fair Art
Basel Miami Beach.
The provocative artist's piece has been imitated several times
and in at least two cases even eaten, the last one last year in
a museum in Seoul by a South Korean student who, after the fact,
justified himself by saying "he was hungry".
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