Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s iconic piece, Comedian—a banana duct-taped to a wall—is expected to fetch between $1 million and $1.5 million at Sotheby’s on November 20. David Galperin, Sotheby’s head of contemporary art for the Americas, describes the piece as a work that “elevates something banal into something extraordinary.”
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00:00Yes, so Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian is composed of a single banana that's affixed to the wall
00:11by a singular piece of duct tape.
00:15The work is presented on the wall as any other artwork and is intended to be replaced as
00:23the banana ages.