Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped Banana entitled "Comedian," displayed during a media preview at Sotheby's in New York, on November 8, 2024 (AFP via Getty Images) A 74-year-old fruit seller had no idea that one of his bananas ...

A 74-year-old immigrant who works outside Sotheby’s shares a basement in the Bronx and works 12-hour shifts. He was stunned to hear what his banana went for at auction.

Last week, a duct-taped banana sold for $6.2 million, including Sotheby New York's auction fees. The New York Times reports that it tracked down the fruit vendor who sold it for 35 cents, and he began to cry when he he was told the sale price.

The fruit vendor behind the banana duct-taped to a wall – which sold for £5,000,000 at an auction in New York last week – had no idea about the fruit’s fate. 74-year-old Shah Alam runs a fruit stand outside of Sotheby’s in Manhattan,