Comedian, Maurizio Cattelan’s instant classic, sold for more than quadruple some estimates at Sotheby’s this week. How one work, and its worth, both satirizes and explains the meme-y days ahead.

This isn’t low-hanging fruit. Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” has fetched a phenomenal $6.2 million at auction at Sotheby’s in New York City. The Post re-created “Comedian” for the ...

Maurizio Cattelan’s viral creation, titled “Comedian,” has proven a sound investment for one collector: One of the artwork’s three “editions” smashed estimates to sell for $6.24 ...

new video loaded: Duct-Taped Banana Sells for $6.2 Million transcript “Cattelan’s ‘Comedian.’ Here it is in all its splendor. We’re going to begin at $800,000. At $800,000? $850,000 now ...

Sotheby’s auctioned the artwork by Maurizio Cattelan on Wednesday; Piece sold to Justin Sun, founder of cryptocurrency platform Tron, who plans to eat it. Skip to Main Content.

Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian, for sale from Perrotin at Art Basel Miami Beach. Photo by Sarah Cascone. Artnet News December 16, 2019 Share Share This Article.

Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s controversial art piece, “Comedian,” made headlines back in 2019 after being sold for $120,000, a hefty price for a piece that is, quite literally, just a ...

Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," which features a banana duct-taped to a wall, at Art Basel Miami. Courtesy of Art Basel. Cattelan did not expound on the meaning of the artwork to Artnet, but ...

The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan shines a light on gun violence and the divisions in US society in a new installation, “Sunday,” at Gagosian in New York City. CNN values your feedback 1.

The man behind the Guggenheim Museum’s solid-gold toilet, Maurizio Cattelan has been described as a prankster, a fraud, an imitator, an innovator, a genius, a xylophone, and “quite possibly ...