Banana duct-taped artwork sold for $120,000 in Miami
Last updated on: 07 December,2019 07:50 pm
The piece, titled "The Comedian," was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
MIAMI (Web Desk) - An odd piece of artwork that consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $120,000 at a Miami art fair.
According to The Fox, the piece, titled "The Comedian," was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who is behind an 18-carat gold toilet offered to President Trump earlier this year.
Two of the three editions of the banana artwork sold for $120,000 at the Art Basel Miami festival and a third is expected to fetch $150,000, Miami’s WFOR-TV reported.
Banana update -@galerieperrotin tells us: “The first edition of Maurizio Cattelan s banana was sold at 1:15PM. Edition two sold at 3:30PM, and we are in discussions regarding edition three with a museum. Maurizio is seriously back." https://t.co/MVFrS4CWGQ@ArtBasel Miami Beach pic.twitter.com/23dHVRBOuz
— The Art Newspaper (@TheArtNewspaper) December 4, 2019An odd piece of artwork that consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $120,000 at a Miami art fair.
The piece, titled "The Comedian," was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who is behind an 18-carat gold toilet offered to President Trump earlier this year.
Two of the three editions of the banana artwork sold for $120,000 at the Art Basel Miami festival and a third is expected to fetch $150,000, Miami’s WFOR-TV reported.
Several other users voiced support for a wealth tax in light of the sale.
Cattelan said he’d been working on the "The Comedian" for a year and initially wanted to create a bronze banana.
“Wherever I was traveling I had this banana on the wall. I couldn’t figure out how to finish it,” he told Art Net News. "In the end, one day I woke up and I said, ‘The banana is supposed to be a banana.’”
The artist is also behind the gold toilet offered to the White House on loan by New York City‘s prestigious Guggenheim Museum. The museum rejected a request to display Van Gogh’s 1888 "Landscape With Snow" work in the residence and proposed the toilet instead.