This is and we cant stress this enough literally bananas.
A banana duct taped to the wall of an art gallery has reportedly sold for a whopping $120,000, proving that Lucille Bluths assessment that a banana could potentially cost $10 was wildly off.
On Friday, the art world took center stage on social media as word spread that Italian artist Maurizio Cattelans fruit-centric piece titled Comedian sold for six figures after being featured at Art Basel show in the Galerie Perrotin.
Three editions of the banana-tape-to-the-wall art piece were up for sale, two of which have already been sold, according to CBS News. The publication noted that the last one is expected to go for $150,000.
Perrotins Instagram account explains that the pieces objective is to offer insight into how we assign worth and what kind of objects we value and that Cattelan had a habit of taping bananas to his hotel room walls when he traveled in an effort to find inspiration.
He made several models: first in resin, then in bronze and in painted bronze for finally coming back to the initial idea of a real banana, reads the post.