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A visitor recently ate the banana from Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," which was on view at the Center Pompidou-Metz. The artwork, which sold for $6.2 million last year, has met this fate before ...
Maurizio Cattelan kickstarted one of the art world’s biggest viral moments when he sold a banana duct-taped to a wall for $120,000. But now, a California-based artist is claiming that Cattelan ...
Cattelan’s work hit its auction high price in May 2016 when “Him,” an infamous wax and resin sculpture of Hitler on his knees, sold at Sotheby’s for $17.2 million, or about $22 million today.
For the first time, Maurizio Cattelan’s famous artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall is heading to the auction block, where experts at Sotheby’s say it could fetch up to $1.5 million. While ...
Cattelan, who won a plagiarism lawsuit over his banana piece, declined to comment publicly, but in private he said, “I’m very surprised. The resemblance is uncanny.
Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," which features a banana duct-taped to a wall, at Art Basel Miami. Courtesy of Art Basel Cattelan did not expound on the meaning of the artwork to Artnet, but ...
Cattelan’s $6.2 Million Banana Boosts an Otherwise Uneven Auction Night at Sotheby’s The highest price of the evening was Ed Ruscha’s $13.6 million "Georges’ Flag." ...
New York Maurizio Cattelan is the rare contemporary artist who has broken through into mainstream recognition, though perhaps not in the ways many would hope for. His work—or rather one specific ...
Film Review: ‘Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back’ Maura Axelrod’s wily portrait of the art provocateur is mostly puffery, but packs several smart twists befitting its subject.
A Cattelan Menagerie The artist on some of his creations. (Slides 3, 4, and 6 are from the upcoming issue of Toilet Paper and have not been seen before.) Concept and realization by Cattelan/Ferrari.