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This is ripped right from the pages of HuffPost Canada because it would be bananas to miss it!
This is ― and we can’t stress this enough ― literally bananas. A banana duct-taped to the wall of an art gallery has reportedly sold for a whopping $120,000, proving that Lucille Bluth’s assessment that a banana could potentially cost $10 was wildly off.On Friday, the art world took center stage on social media as word spread that Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s fruit-centric piece titled “Comedian” sold for six figures after being featured at Art Basel show in the Galerie Perrotin. Three editions of the banana-tape-to-the-wall art piece were up for sale, two of which have already been sold, according to CBS News. The publication noted that the last one is expected to go for $150,000.Perrotin’s Instagram account explains that the piece’s objective is to offer “insight into how we assign worth and what kind of objects we value” and that Cattelan had a habit of taping bananas to his hotel room walls when he traveled in an effort to “find inspiration.” “He made several models: first in resin, then in bronze and in painted bronze for finally coming back to the initial idea of a real banana,” reads the post.
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