Comedian, Maurizio Cattelan’s instant classic, sold for more than quadruple some estimates at Sotheby’s this week. How one ...

Many might have looked at the Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan’s viral duct-taped banana and thought “hey, I can make that.” Well, while you might have all the materials hanging ...

Who is Maurizio Cattelan, age Maurizio Cattelan was born in Padua on September 21, 1960, and is a 64-year-old Italian artist, considered among the most important and controversial of his generation.

Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” photographed during a press preview at Sotheby’s in New York. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images As for the future of the very perishable Comedian?

The most talked-about lot of the New York auction season, the duct-taped banana by Maurizio Cattelan, sold for a hammer price of $5.2m ($6.2m with fees) at Sotheby’s New York after a seven ...

But the main attraction, indisputably, was Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian”: a work that consists of a single banana affixed to a wall by a diagonal slash of silver duct tape. Cattelan made ...

A conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. But 7 bidders were biting. It went to a crypto entrepreneur. transcript “Cattelan’s ...

Visitors take pictures of the work “Comedian” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. And any potential bidders concerned with the perishable quality of the art needn’t worry. “What you buy w ...

The viral duct-taped banana art installation ‘Comedian’, brainchild of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, is headed for auction at Sotheby’s on Nov. 20, where it’s expected to fetch ...

Maurizio Cattelan’s hotly debated, fruit-based artwork just sold for six times initial expectations. “This is not just an artwork; it represents a cultural phenomenon that bridges the worlds ...