NYC fruit vendor who sold $6.2M banana for pennies is still fuming: ‘I got 35 cents’
Shah Alam, 74, recently learned that a piece of his produce was used in Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s piece titled “Comedian” — taped to a gallery wall and sold at auction last week for the eye-popping price of $5.2 million plus more than $1 million in auction-house fees.
A crypto investor bought a duct-taped banana for $6.2M. He now wants to buy 100,000 more from the original fruit vendor.
Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur who paid $6.2 million for a duct-taped banana art piece, says he wants to buy 100,000 more from the original fruit vendor. The viral artwork, titled "Comedian,
Crypto entrepreneur eats banana artwork bought for $6.2m
A Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur has followed through on his promise to eat the banana from a $6.2m (£4.9m) artwork he bought last week. Justin Sun outbid six others to claim Maurizio Cattelan's infamous 2019 work Comedian - a banana duct-taped to a wall - at Sotheby's auction house in New York.
Crypto investor who paid $6.2 million for banana "artwork" eats it
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana taped to a wall — aka "Comedian," by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan — and then ate it during a press conference in Hong Kong on Friday.
Crypto mogul eats banana he bought for $6.2 million and offers to buy 100,000 more from fruit vendor
The crypto entrepreneur who bought a banana duct-taped to a wall for $6.2 million last week has eaten it. Before taking a bite, Sun sang the praises of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, arguing conceptual art was similar to cryptocurrency as he described the banana as “iconic.
Man Who Bought Duct-Taped Banana Artwork for $6.2M Eats It: ‘I Wanted to Become a Part of History’
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun shared a video on social media of himself peeling the banana and eating it Art is subjective and — apparently — sometimes edible. Justin Sun, the crypto entrepreneur who purchased the now-viral art piece featuring a banana taped to a wall,
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