Days after the $120,000 duct-taped banana went viral, a man approached the exhibit, peeled the banana off the wall and ate it.
Hannah YasharoffItalian artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece 'Comedian' is shown during Art Basel in Miami, Florida on Dec. 5, 2019.Days after Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped banana work went viral, the art piece saw a splitting new development: a man ate the real-life $120,000 banana stuck to the wall at Art Basel in Miami.
"I love Maurizio Cattelan artwork and I really love this installation," he later captioned an Instagram post."It’s very delicious." The first edition of the banana art, titled"Comedian," was already sold from Emmanuel Perrotin's gallery, Galerie Perrotin, which has locations in New York and Asia, the site reports, and more editions have also been selling.
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