Duct-Taped Banana Sells for $6.2 Million at Sotheby’s Auction, and Buyer Plans to Eat It

The art piece by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan is titled “Comedian.”

Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped Banana, entitled "Comedian," is on display during a media preview at Sotheby's in New York, on Nov. 8, 2024. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur made a whopping $6.2 million dollar purchase on a piece of artwork featuring a single ripe banana duct-taped to a wall.

The artwork dubbed “Comedian,” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, sold at auction at Sotheby’s in New York Nov. 20 to Justin Sun, who outbid six others in the “hotly contested” sale.