Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might ...

NEW YORK -- Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall?

The conceptual artwork has an estimated value of between $1 million and $1.5 million at Sotheby's auction on Nov. 20.

As Maurizio Cattelan's artwork "Comedian," a banana duct-taped to a wall, goes to auction, here's a look back at how the ...

The yellow banana fixed to the white wall with silver duct tape is a work entitled “Comedian,” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. It first debuted in 2019 as an edition of three fruits at ...

However, Cattelan is not some two-bit artist. His work was already well-regarded before a banana was affixed to a wall with ...

We are looking at an ordinary banana and an ordinary piece of duct tape. However, what makes the ordinary extraordinary is the intention of the artist who put this together. There is simply put no ...