The viral Dole banana taped to a wall at Art Basel in ... at an auction at Sotheby’s in Manhattan on Wednesday, the New York Times reports. Entitled “Comedian,” the piece by Italian artist ...

Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun forked over more than six million for the fruit Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped Banana ... The New York Times' Jason Farago wrote ...

Maurizio Cattelan's provocative artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall has fetched $6.2m (£4.9m) at Sotheby's in New York - four times higher than pre-sale estimates. The auction house says ...

NEW YORK — Arguably the most famous artwork of the past decade has found a new buyer. Comedian, a sculpture by the artist Maurizio Cattelan, consisting of a piece of duct tape and a banana stuck ...

"Those who bought it, what kind of people are they?" he asked a New York Times reporter. "Do they not know what a banana is?" Cattelan confessed to feeling a pang of sympathy for Alam and the ...

The taped banana - now perhaps one of the most expensive fruits ever sold - was actually bought earlier in the day for a mere $0.35, according to the New York Times. "Comedian" was first unveiled ...

Alam learned of the fate of his banana and how much it sold for from a reporter days after the sale, as reported by the New York Times. "I am a poor man. I have never had this kind of money ...