The controversy is (again) served: ‘Comedian’, the banana stuck to the wall which divided the art world in 2019, presented by the conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan at the Art Basel fair in Miami, was sold this Wednesday for 6.2 million dollars (5.9 million euros) at Sotheby’s in New York.
The buyer will receive, in addition to the fruit and the adhesive tape that holds it to the wall, a certificate of authenticity of the banana, which must be replaced approximately every seven days (according to the recommendations of the artist himself). and the auction house).
With the auction, Sotheby’s reopens the great controversy generated by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and his curious work in 2019 and, therefore, one of the great debates that exist in the art world: what is what is art and what is not?
