In the same week in which Sotheby’s auction house sold a $65 million Claude Monet painting, it was a multimillion-dollar banana duct-taped to a wall that stole the show.
The work, by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was unveiled at Art Basel in Miami in 2019, where it was promptly eaten by performance artist David Datuna. At another exhibition at Seoul’s Leeum Museum of Art in 2023, the banana was eaten again.
