{"id":1791,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/banana-duct-taped-to-a-wall-sells-for-6-2-million\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","slug":"banana-duct-taped-to-a-wall-sells-for-6-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/banana-duct-taped-to-a-wall-sells-for-6-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Banana duct-taped to a wall sells for $6.2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-11-28 20:34:45<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $6.2 million.<BR><br \/>\nCreated by 64-year-old artist Maurizio Cattelan in 2019, &#8216;Comedian&#8217; &#8211; an artwork consisting of the yellow fruit being stuck to a plain white wall with grey duct tape &#8211; was sold at the Sotheby&#8217;s art auction, in New York, on Wednesday (20.11.24).<BR><br \/>\nAccording to The New York Times, the listing started at $800,000 before seven bidders tried their luck for five minutes on bagging what is likely to be one of the most expensive pieces of fruit ever sold. <BR><br \/>\nChinese-born crypto engineer Justin Sun won &#8211; and gets a certificate of authenticity and instructions on how to display it.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, he wrote on the social media platform X that he will &#8220;personally eat the banana&#8221; in the &#8220;coming days&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nHe wrote on X: &#8220;I\u2019m thrilled to announce that I\u2019ve bought the banana.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;I am Justin Sun, and I\u2019m excited to share that I have successfully acquired Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s iconic work, &#8216;Comedian&#8217; for $6.2 million. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This is not just an artwork, it represents a cultural phenomenon that bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;I believe this piece will inspire more thought and discussion in the future and will become a part of history. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;I am honoured to be the proud owner of the banana and look forward to it sparking further inspiration and impact for art enthusiasts around the world.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Additionally, in the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience, honouring its place in both art history and popular culture. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Stay tuned!&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe artwork debuted at the Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019, which saw many attendees question themselves if it was a joke or real, and resulted in it being taken away due to the amount of attention it received.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-11-28 20:34:45 A banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $6.2 million. Created by 64-year-old artist Maurizio Cattelan in 2019, &#8216;Comedian&#8217; &#8211; an artwork consisting of the yellow fruit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}