Sotheby's to Sell Maurizio Cattelan's Duct-taped Banana, Art Basel and USB Report Looks for Positives: Morning Links for October 25, 2024. Story by The Editors of ARTnews • 3mo.

Inside Sotheby’s $6 million sale of a banana. Turns out that crypto bros love “Comedian,” Maurizio Cattelan’s now-infamous spoof of art-world capitalism.

Oliver Barker hammered Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian for $5.2 million ($6.2 million with fees) at Sotheby’s “The Now and Contemporary Auction” on November 20. Courtesy of Sotheby's With ...

Comedian, Maurizio Cattelan’s instant classic, sold for more than quadruple some estimates at Sotheby’s this week. How one work, and its worth, both satirizes and explains the meme-y days ahead.

But she thinks it might go beyond poking fun at rich people. People react to the artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece of art "Comedian" during an auction preview at Sotheby's in New York, Monday, Nov ...

A conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. But 7 bidders were biting. It went to a crypto entrepreneur.

Photo: Sotheby’s/Reuters The art market went bananas over a million-dollar banana. “Comedian,” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, sold for $6.2 million at auction Wednesday night.

This isn’t low-hanging fruit. Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” has fetched a phenomenal $6.2 million at auction at Sotheby’s in New York City. The Post re-created “Comedian” for the ...

Maurizio Cattelan's art installation "Comedian" sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday, purchased by a Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur for approximately $6.2 million.. The final ...

People view Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" during a press preview for Sotheby's Evening Auction on Oct. 25, 2024, in New York City. (John Nacion/Getty Images / Getty Images) ...

Five years after its creation, Maurizio Cattelan's “Comedian" — consisting of a real banana duct-taped to a wall — could fetch an eye-popping $1.5 million when it is auctioned off by Sotheby ...