Crypto Boss who bought duct-taped banana for Rs 52 crore eats it
November 30, 2024 - PatialaPolitics
Crypto Boss who bought duct-taped banana for Rs 52 crore eats it
A Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur has followed through on his promise to eat the banana from a $6.2m (£4.9m) artwork he bought last week.
Justin Sun outbid six others to claim Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous 2019 work Comedian – a banana duct-taped to a wall – at Sotheby’s auction house in New York.
He ate the fruit during a news conference in Hong Kong where he used the moment to draw parallels between the artwork and cryptocurrency.
The banana is regularly replaced before exhibitions, with Mr Sun buying the right to display the installation along with a guide on how to replace the fruit.