What you buy when you buy Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’ is not the banana itself, but a certificate of authenticity that grants the ...
Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might ...
This is a banana duct-taped to the wall. It’s a real banana. You could go into a supermarket, buy such a banana, and tape it to the wall. But the chances are your version won’t go to auction for a ...
"What have I gotten myself into?!," Baton Rouge's Claire Herthum Major thought when the massive painting collection arrived ...
As Maurizio Cattelan's artwork "Comedian," a banana duct-taped to a wall, goes to auction, here's a look back at how the ...
Axios VisualsThe price of a banana has remained relatively stable in recent years, despite inflation. The price of a banana ...
A banana duct-taped to a wall first sold in 2019 for $120,000. It could fetch up to $1.5 million this week during a Sotheby’s ...
The collection from Linda Bean is valued at more than $3 million and is part of a larger auction, American Art, by Bonhams in New York. It includes paintings and illustrations by Andrew Wyeth, his son ...
The auction will also include ... one could argue that a lot of contemporary art is, well, not great. However, Cattelan is ...