Would you spend nearly $150,000 for a banana duct taped to a wall? Wealthy art collectors are shelling out the big bucks to get their hands on the prized installation by Maurizio Cattelan that's housed at the Art Basel Miami Beach. She had bought pieces from the Miami gallery before but the 'Comedian' was her first piece from Cattelan. A French man purchased the second edition of the piece before Perrotin and the artist bumped the price up to $150,000 for the third edition. 'In the end, one day I woke up and I said "the banana is supposed to be a banana."'

Source: Daily Mail December 05, 2019 21:33 UTC