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 sell for more than $1 million at an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s in ...

Five years after its creation, Maurizio Cattelan's “Comedian" — consisting of a real banana duct-taped to a wall — could fetch an eye-popping $1.5 million when it is auctioned off by Sotheby ...

Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," a banana duct-taped to a wall, was sold at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday for $6.2 million.

A banana duct-taped to a white wall — or an acclaimed piece of art, depending how you look at it — sold at a Sotheby's auction for $6.24 million Wednesday.. Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" is ...

NEW YORK — A banana taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an art auction in New York on Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur.

Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," a banana duct-taped to a wall, was sold at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday for $6.2 million. Death toll in Texas floods climbs to 104 as hard-hit areas face new ...

But on Wednesday night at Sotheby’s, a buyer of one of the original “Comedian” editions sold it at auction for a whopping $6.24 million — and it became hard to tell who was in on the joke.

The banana was the last of just 10 lots sold in the “Now” portion of Sotheby’s two-section contemporary art sale on Wednesday, which realized a total of $16.5 million, well above their $12 ...

Comedian, Maurizio Cattelan’s instant classic, sold for more than quadruple some estimates at Sotheby’s this week. How one work, and its worth, both satirizes and explains the meme-y days ahead.

But it would have little tangible impact, Mr. Badsha said, either on the daily life of the fruit vendors, or on the gulf laid bare by the $6.2 million banana and the stand that sold it for a quarter.

That might sell for more than $1 million at an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s in New York. The yellow banana fixed to the white wall with silver duct tape is a work entitled “Comedian,” by ...

Inside Sotheby’s $6 million sale of a banana. Turns out that crypto bros love “Comedian,” Maurizio Cattelan’s now-infamous spoof of art-world capitalism.