An a-peeling offer.
Perhaps the world’s most expensive banana has officially sold for the crisp price tag of $6.24 million. The art piece titled “Comedian” by Maurizio Cattelan features a banana duct taped to a white wall, and sold at a Sotheby’s auction on Nov. 20, NBC News reported.
The piece first debuted at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2019 and quickly drew crowds, which gave it an estimated $1.5 million value, per Sotheby’s.
“They eventually had to take it off the wall,” art critic Nancy Durrant said in Sotheby’s Nov. 15 video about the auction, “because it created such a stir that the crowds were too big and they were all worried about the other artworks.”
During the Art Basel exhibition, one man took the banana off the wall and ate it.
“It eventually had to be taken down,” Lucius Elliott, Sotheby’s Head of Contemporary Marquee Sales, shared, “for public safety reasons.”
