These days there is a lot of talk about an auction in New York, United States. Here they bid on a banana stuck to adhesive tape. There was a competition among people to buy it. We are willing to pay anything for this. For this, offers of up to 5.2 million dollars were submitted. That means buyers were willing to pay up to Rs 43 million. After all, what was on the banana was attached to this tape and people were willing to pay that much money.
Let us tell you that this auction was not just for a banana. This was an auction of a famous work of art. It was a banana taped to the wall in the name of a work of art. This taped banana is Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’ artwork. It is considered a famous work of art and was sold for US$5.2 million at an auction in New York. The buyer contributed $6.2 million i.e. Rs 52 million as final payment.
A Chinese businessman bought bananas and paid 52 million rupees
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun purchased one of three versions of the artwork that went viral in 2019. Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana wall art had an initial estimate of between $1 million and $1.5 million when went up for auction. But this destroyed all estimates.
The auction started from 8 lakh US dollars.
There are three versions of the 2019 artwork titled Comedian. One of them was auctioned Wednesday night at Sotheby’s in New York. Bidding in this auction started at $800,000 and quickly surpassed initial estimates. When bidding reached $5.2 million, auctioneer Oliver Barker said, “I never thought I’d say ‘$5 million for a banana.'”
Banana was bought for 35 cents for a work of art
The banana displayed at Sotheby’s was supposedly purchased for 35 cents that same day. Zhen Hua of Sotheby’s China office made the final bid on behalf of Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, who will pay $6.2 million, including the buyer’s premium. In exchange, Sun will receive a banana and a roll of duct tape, as well as a certificate of authenticity and a guide. It will have instructions on how to replace the banana, if you wish.
The buyer will eat banana.
Sun said in a statement to Sotheby’s that it is not just a work of art, but represents a cultural phenomenon that connects the worlds of art, memes and the cryptocurrency community. I am confident that this work will inspire further reflection and debate in the future and will become part of history. Sun said he plans to eat the banana to honor its place in both art history and popular culture.
A person ate the banana from the exhibition’s artwork
The Comedians debuted as an edition of three at the Art Basel Miami fair in 2019. Its $120,000 price tag here made headlines around the world and sparked debate about the nature and value of art. It went viral when artist David Datuna pulled out a banana and ate the artwork during an exhibition in New York, which was later replaced.
