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A $68.3 million Ed Ruscha. And don’t forget that $6.2 million banana that sold for six times its asking price. To anyone looking in, the art market appeared to come roaring back this week—but ...
That crew, actually wearing T-shirts emblazoned with images of the duct-taped banana, chased the beast until $2.4 million. At that point, the bidder on the phone with Hua was jousting with an ...
Answers to six immediate questions you might have about the art world after a crypto entrepreneur spent millions on a 35-cent fruit. By Zachary Small It wasn’t just a banana. It was a banana ...
Maurizio Cattelan's controversial artwork *Comedian*, a banana duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at a Sotheby's auction. Originally priced at $120,000, the piece became a viral sensation ...
The banana was replaced later that day. Crypto king Justin Sun snapped up the controversial piece for a whopping $6.2 million. Given that he named the artwork “Comedian,” Cattelan likely didn ...
Chinese cryptocurrency businessman Justin Sun, who last week purchased a $6.2 million art piece consisting solely of a banana duct taped to a wall, ate the banana on Friday in a move he bragged ...
The duct-taped banana immediately sparked conversations about the legitimacy of the work and what the art world chooses to imbue with value. According to the artist, Comedian‘s origins are much ...
The idea takes inspiration from a duct-taped banana art piece that sold for approximately $6.2 million last week at a Sotheby's art auction. "No shade to the prince of potassium, but we think we c ...