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Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork which involves a banana duct-taped to a wall has been sold for $5.2 million at auction.
The viral artwork was estimated to sell for between $1m and $1.5m.
One of three editions for the 2019 work, titled Comedian, made its auction debut on Wednesday evening at Sotheby’s New York, as part of its contemporary art auction.
In a competitive auction in which cryptocurrency bids were allowed, bidding started at $800,000 and bids came in quickly, the Guardian reports.
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun bought one of three editions of the viral 2019 work, describing it as ‘a cultural phenomenon’.
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