
A banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at a Sotheby’s art auction
Maurizio Cattelan’s art installation “Comedian” sold at auction at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday, purchased by a Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur for approximately $6.2 million. The final sale was roughly four times the initial estimated value, which Sotheby’s had listed between $1 million and $1.5 million. Sotheby’s described the artwork as “Passionately debated, rhapsodically venerated, and hotly contested.” All…