ROME, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The Italian artist who created the banana duct-taped to a wall that sold this week for $6.2 million, said in an interview published on Friday that the work was a ...

pushing us to question what this work says about us as viewers," Cattelan told Italian daily La Repubblica. The piece of art, whose first version was made with a banana that cost 25 cents ...

The owner of the work does not receive a banana or ... Michael Eisner was there—probably not to bid on the banana, but it seems right to point out that the former head of the Mouse House was ...

American pop artist Andy Warhol, who had a background in advertising, made almost fetishistic objects out ... banana, where the high sale price is determined by its scarcity, Warhol intended his ...

Maurizio Cattelan's artwork "Comedian," a banana duct-taped to a wall, was estimated to sell for $1.5 million at auction.

The Italian artist who created the banana duct-taped to a wall that sold for US$6.2 million, says the work was a “provocation” and an invitation to appreciate the true value of art.

ROME (Reuters) – The Italian artist who created the banana duct-taped to a wall that sold this week for $6.2 million, said in an interview published on Friday that the work was a “provocation” and an ...

During the sale, auctioneer Oliver Barker described the work as “iconic” and “disruptive,” while joking that selling a banana at auction were “words I never thought I’d say.” ...

A fresh banana taped to a wall – a provocative work of conceptual art by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan – was bought for $6.2mn on Wednesday by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur at a New York ...