The Banana That Broke The Internet: NYC Vendor's Heartbreaking Reaction To $6.2M Auction
Shah Alam's 35-cent banana became a $6.2 million art piece, leaving the 74-year-old NYC street vendor stunned and heartbroken.
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.
Bangladeshi fruit vendor moved to tears as banana he sold for 35 cents fetches millions
Shah Alam, a 74-year-old Bangladeshi fruit vendor in Manhattan, was shocked to discover that a banana he sold for 35 cents was later auctioned off for $6.2 million at Sotheby's auction house as the centerpiece of artist Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork called "Comedian.
Street vendor who sold $6m banana devastated as he did not receive a cent
Shah Alam doesn’t remember exactly which of the dozens of bananas he sold last Wednesday ended up being taken across the road, taped onto a wall and bought for $6.2 million (£4.9 million).
NYC fruit vendor, 74, who sold banana devastated after it became viral $6.2M artwork: ‘I am a poor man’
It went bananas. The New York City fruit vendor who sold an ordinary banana that was duct-taped to a gallery wall inside Sotheby’s and sold for a whopping $6.2 million was devastated to learn that he was made the butt of the joke — but New Yorkers and the art buyer are now lining up to support him.
The Sidewalk Fruit Vendor Who Sold a $6.2 Million Banana for 25 Cents
A 74-year-old immigrant who works outside Sotheby’s shares a basement in the Bronx and works 12-hour shifts. He was stunned to hear what his banana went for at auction.
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,
Cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought banana art for $6.2 million eats the fruit in Hong Kong
A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 million last week ate the fruit in Hong Kong on Friday
The Guy Who Bought (and Ate) That Banana Art Is Actually a Dangerous Criminal
On the surface, it’s a funny curiosity of a story. But Justin Sun’s involvement takes this into something far more insidious.
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Fruit seller who sold banana to artist fuming after it's sold at auction for £4.8m
A New York City fruit vendor was left fuming after an ordinary banana bought at his stall was duct-taped to a gallery wall inside Sotheby’s and sold for £4.8 million ($6.2 million). Shah Alam ...
'Mr. Alam's contribution to this extraordinary artwork is indispensable'
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