The Italian artist sold two editions of the piece to private collectors for $120,000 each and was negotiating a third sale to a museum for $150,000, said a spokeswoman for Paris-based Galerie Perrotin, which displayed the work in its booth at Art Basel.
"I love Maurizio Cattelan artwork and I really love this installation," Datuna said on Instagram."It’s very delicious."Cattelan created was stolen from a British palace that was the birthplace of Winston Churchill. Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" on display in Miami Beach. A performance artist ate the banana Saturday.Miami Beach police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez said Saturday the department had no interactions with Datuna, and the gallery spokeswoman said there had been no complaints about the performance artist.Gallery spokesman Lucien Terras told the
that Datuna's snacking would have no impact on the piece's value because the banana was meant to be replaced as needed.
I was hungry!
This idiocy is win win for everyone but the banana
He was hungry. Banana easily available.
'Performance artist who ate banana from $120,000 work of art explains why he did it. ' Because this planet deserves to die and start over without humans.
The whole fiasco is 'Dumb'.
Who paid and who received the money?
If he didn't say, 'Because appraising a banana duct-taped to wall at $120,000 is fucking insane', then I'm not interested.
Because it's a fruit. You're supposed to eat them...not stick a bit of tape on them and pass it off as art. If anyone pays anything over a few pence for it then they have gone bananas themselves.
Ridiculous fool!
Could’ve paid off my house with that 🙄
Becalse the whole thing was some kind of joke and the money either went back around in a circle or was laundered
' I was very hungry..' 🤔😉😁
Pretty good idea why he ate the banana.
Sometimes a banana is just a banana?
I dont care
Just when you think we can't get any stupider of a society........
yes, and so is money laundering...
Haha..
This stupid form of 'art' is really a tool for criminal money launderers. Call a rotting banana 'art' put of high value on it & wash out criminal funds through several transactions.
Will there be a complaint if the “owner” gets a new banana and (re)tapes it to the wall?
Now it’s a performance to eat a banana? So goddamned dumb.
I just thought of some great work of art Christmas presents I can make.
I'm calling this whole thing 'stupid.'
I have an apple, I will sell for half the price as that banana. I'll even gift wrap it for Christmas.
If I were hungry and had extra 120000 $, I would do the same.
But is it art?
I feel stupid for having to actually work to make money.... 🙄
Hahahahahahahahaha. That is all
When he shits it out, he should tape THAT onto the wall next to it.
I can’t believe this is NOT a story from the Onion! 🤣
notart
I hope he has to pay for the damage
Liberalism is a mental disorder!
I would really love to hear someone try to convince me that a banana duct taped to a wall is art and worth $120k. Are people really that unwilling to admit they've been fooled by some of these modern art fraudsters?
I love art and am pretty open minded, but this I just do not get.
This is why people laugh at the pretentious scamming that comprises too much of modern art.
What am I missing here, lol?! This is ridiculous!
The whole thing from start to finish is ridiculous
Just stupid.
Not art
This Christmas I’m gonna duct tape bananas to all my family’s walls apparently that will be the most expensive gift they ever received. 😂
I’m not upset anymore it just means that my artwork is worth millions. SIMPLE
The American story - spend absurd amounts of money on something so ridiculous - while the poor struggle to exist.
Good. That's what they're for...
This isn't art.
Just duct-taped 2 grapes to the fridge. Asking $55K for both or $30K for one. Will throw in an apple as a bonus.
This whole thing smells like money laundering. And when they sue the auction house it’ll be insurance fraud.
It served its purpose, to launder 120,000 dollars.
Interactive art gots to be interacted with, right?
Was the other one used to make banana nut bread?
A banana duct-taped to a wall is not a $120,000 'work of art'. Neither is it a $1.20 'work of art'. The guy had a snack. It was not a performance.
Wow!! How much could I ask for my masterpiece 'Life in a strawberry', just created in my refrigerator? Life in the time of stupidity
I hope this money went to Charity
So, I feel pretty okay with a wealth tax if people are spending $120,000 for a banana taped to a wall while children are going hungry.
just buy a roll of duct tape and a fresh banana 🐒
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
It's the emperor's new clothes..... With potassium
If you have $120,000 to spend on this art, you have the money to pay more taxes. Seriously.
“Cuando un loco parece completamente sensato, es ya el momento de ponerle la camisa de fuerza.' Edgar Allan Poe
He just didn't get the appeal.
That’s not art.
RIP mr nannerz. 🙁 StopBananaAbuse
Watermelon on the wall would be worth 750,000
Imagine how many meals could have been provided for the hungry with $120,000 ? The stupidity of this is very sad.
😂😂😂
Will never understand the wisdom of paying $120000 to this nonsense. Is it an ingenious way of money laundering ?
Art critic goes bananas, in other news, money laundering is getting exotic
Just tape another one up there. Boom! Problem solved.
What TOTAL FAKE NEWS BS!
Things that made me giggle yesterday artbasel 2019
😑
the story in 8 hours: man draws painting using 120,000 poop from a banana stolen from a wall and eaten by a performance artist.
The RNC should buy one to hang at the WH as Trump's presidential portrait.
To whomever appraised this at 120k. I have a bowl of apples with a bow on top I am offering at the bargain price of 500.00... I will even pay the shipping costs but act fast my wife picked up some caramel and this wonderful piece of “art” could go right down the toilet.
You can't eat my paintings art oilpainting billyharry1 billyharry1 delaware delawareartist painting
Rich artists producing poor art ...
That better be the best damn organic banana ever Fkn grown..
But of course. Should never let food go to waste.
News flash. This wasn’t art. This is a rip off
Idiotic
Every artist is a cannibal.
The end of times
Anyone need more duct tape and a 🍌
Everything about this story, including the story itself is ridiculous.
$120k for a banana strapped to a wall. Lol
'Launder your money here'
😂
So how do you keep forgers from duplicating it? And, is it insured?
All need to stop this abusive hate towards artists doing their duty in society. Hate the game , not the arts and the artists... Damn jealously is for the unappreciative, & the uncultured; V-V hmmmnnnn. I'd sue for 150k+depression, etc.
Lynda Barry
Sounds easy to replace
Who bought it, Trump?
Please tell me they managed to save the duct tape!!
Fake art Fake performance art Fake valuation Great P R
I assume the banana poop he produces will then be sold for another $100,000+.
What’s worth the most ? Art performance
These people have too much money
When the Artist gets the bill, the banana will come out ( peels included).
Monkey see, monkey do.
You mean I can tape fruit to the wall and charge 100k for it?
KevinElms5 the resistance ?
If you have this much money to buy a damn banana, and that money wasn't given to a legitimate charity, then you have too much damn money and you are doing the wrong damn thing with it‼️
Pretentiousness + idleness = $120,000.
Reminds me of 💸, which is what it is for anyone paying $120k .
Let me know what political party the purchaser is in. Lol
Pay more taxes.
This is the dumbest thing I heard all year but there's 24 days left so who knows
Eat the Rich.
Art = money laundering
I' m gonna do the Beverly Hills tour of local celebrity's and then come back later and gaffer tape a carrot to Britney Spears front door ..the inspirational qualities of high art
At no cost ? ..
Artist commissions crime.... Artist eats art... Bananadrama
Everyone involved with this should be doing something else with their lives
Not like they can't get another banana and tape it to the wall
This is what rich people do with the $$ Trump and his GOP chronies gave them in the form of tax breaks -- creating jobs for banana growers so they don't emigrate to the US.
Good
Just replace the banana with another one and give it a higher estimate.
How is it $120,000? Just go get another banana 🍌 and no one will know the difference. Libs are dumb!
Ridiculousness.
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