NEW YORK — A banana taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million ... Sotheby's calls Cattelan "among Contemporary Art's most brilliant provocateurs." "He has persistently disrupted the art world's ...

Comedian (2019), a sculptural intervention by the Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan that consists of a banana affixed to the gallery wall with duct tape ... work of Modern art could ...

But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might sell for more than $1 million at an upcoming auction at Sotheby's in New York.

hoping the Supreme Court would give him credit for being the first person to tape a banana to the wall in the name of art. But the justices on Monday rejected his fruit suit. That leaves in place ...