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Bizarre Banana Art Sells for $120,000

An Italian artist's audacious new piece, which consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall, sold for a whopping $120,000. The weird work, dubbed 'The Comedian,' was reportedly the brainchild of renowned artist Maurizio Cattlelan and was the star attraction at Miami's high-end Art Basel event this past week. Amazingly, he created three versions of the piece and all of them have sold for around the same amount, totaling around a half-million dollars.

The inspiration for the piece came about as Cattlelan was thinking about making a sculpture of a banana and took to taping one to a wall wherever he went as a way of visualizing this concept. Eventually, that odd habit became the artwork itself, much to the amusement of critics. Of course, it's Cattlelan who is getting the last laugh as the bananas themselves cost only a few cents. More on this strange story at the Coast to Coast AM website.


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