The 100,000 bananas would be sold at 35 cents each, bringing in a net profit of $6,000.
Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur who paid $6.2 million for a duct-taped banana art piece, says he wants to buy 100,000 more from the original fruit vendor.
The viral artwork, titled «Comedian», was first unveiled by Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan in 2019.
Speaking to The Art Newspaper in 2021, Cattelan said it was not intended to be a joke, but a «sincere commentary and a reflection on what we value.»
Sum’s bid at Sotheby’s auction house was more than six times the artwork’s pre-sale estimate of $1 million.
It’s become a tradition for those who buy it to eat the banana, which Sun did at a press conference in Hong Kong this week.
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun last week spent $6.2 million on the conceptual artwork «Comedian» by Italian artist Maurizio Cattlelan at a Sotheby’s auction in New York.
