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.

This isn’t low-hanging fruit. Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” has fetched a phenomenal $6.2 million at auction at Sotheby’s in New York City. The Post re-created “Comedian” for the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," a conceptual artwork comprising a banana stuck to a wall with duct tape, sold on Wednesday for $6.24 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped Banana entitled "Comedian," displayed during a media preview at Sotheby's in New York, on November 8, 2024 (AFP via Getty Images) ...

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 ...

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.