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Fruit stand vendor Shah Alam sold a banana for pennies that was later resold for $6.2 million as part of the art piece "Comedian" at Sotheby's.
Upon hearing how much Sun bought the fruit for, the vendor, Shah Alam, was in disbelief. Sun then promised to buy 100,000 more bananas from Alam, or $25,000 worth of produce, in a series of posts ...
Justin Sun uploaded a video of himself eating the $6.2 million absurdist piece conceptualized by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
Shah Alam's 35-cent banana became a $6.2 million art piece, leaving the 74-year-old NYC street vendor stunned and heartbroken.
It would cost thousands of dollars to procure that many bananas from a Bronx wholesale market, said Shah Alam, the 74-year-old employee from Bangladesh who sold the original banana used in ...
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 74-year-old fruit seller had no idea that one of his bananas, which go for 35 cents a pop, would one day be worth $6.2 million. A reporter informed Shah Alam, who operates a fruit stand on the ...
Shah Alam sold the banana for just 35 cents (Rs 29) not realising it would go on to become the centrepiece of Maurizio Cattelan's controversial artwork, ‘Comedian’.
The crypto baron has also vowed to buy 100,000 bananas from Shah Alam, the owner of the New York City fruit stand that originally sold Cattelan the fateful banana for less than a dollar.
The Upper East Side fruit vendor who sold a $6.2 million banana for pennies is still feeling rotten over his end of the deal. Shah Alam, 74, recently learned that a piece of his produce was used ...
NEW YORK — At the fruit stand where he works on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Shah Alam sells dozens of bananas a day at 35 cents apiece, or four for $1. He does a brisk business in cheap fruit ...
Upon hearing how much Sun bought the fruit for, the vendor, Shah Alam, was in disbelief. Sun then promised to buy 100,000 more bananas from Alam, or $25,000 worth of produce, in a series of posts ...