Banana Taped To Wall Artwork

A piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at an auction Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur. Comedian is a 2019 artwork by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. Created in an edition of three (with two artist's proofs), it appears as a fresh banana duct taped to a wall.

As a work of conceptual art, it consists of a certificate of authenticity with detailed diagrams and instructions for its proper display. Number two of the limited edition of three was sold to the cryptocurrency. Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," a conceptual artwork comprising a banana stuck to a wall with duct tape, sold on Wednesday for $6.24 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

On the bustling, lively VIP morning of Art Basel in Miami Beach in 2019, fairgoers were stopped in their tracks by a curious single ripe banana stuck to the wall with duct tape at the booth of Perrotin gallery. Hung exactly 160 centimeters from the floor, the strip of diagonal silver tape against the bright yellow fruit is an eye-catching, conceptual work by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. Behind the Banana Wall Artwork By way of an unidentified donation, the Guggenheim Museum in New York received Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan in September of 2019.

The artwork-a banana taped to a wall-was initially displayed and offered for sale at the Miami Beach Art Basel festival in the fall of 2019 where it attracted notice, jeers, and many memes. For a brief while, social media was. Maurizio Cattelan's artwork "Comedian," a banana duct-taped to a wall, has sold for $6.2 million at auction.

Here's a look back at how the banana has become a beloved motif in the arts. A banana becomes art when it's duct-taped to a wall in galleries like Perrotin and White Cube, its value secured not by materials but by the concept it represents. Maurizio Cattelan's provocative artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall has fetched $6.2m (£4.9m) at Sotheby's in New York.

You may have seen it on Twitter. On Instagram. Hell, on the cover of the New York Post: a ripe banana duct-taped to the wall, all in the name of art.

(Or maybe you just heard a coworker talking. A viral artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.24 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York City on Wednesday, Nov. 20.