A $120,000 work of art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall was ripped from its perch and eaten by a performance artist Saturday afternoon.
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.
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