This banana caused an art world kerfuffle. Is it worth $1 million?

Описание: (17 Nov 2024)

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New York - 11 November 2024
1. Tight detail of Comedian banana artwork
2. SOUNDBITE (English) David Galperin, Sotheby's New York:
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"We are looking at an ordinary banana and an ordinary piece of duct tape. However, what makes the ordinary extraordinary is the intention of the artist who put this together. There is, simply put, no other artwork of the past hundred years that has provoked the kind of response that Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian did upon its installation at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019.”
3. Medium reveal pan of Comedian with observer
4. Wide of Comedian with observer
5. Tight pan of Comedian
6. Wide of Comedian display area with observer

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New York - 14 November 2024
7. Tight of Jones working at computer at her home
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Chloe Cooper Jones, Columbia University:
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"The fact that the Comedian premiered at an art fair is a significant piece of context, as opposed to premiering in a gallery or museum context. Art fairs are extremely expensive to go to, so they are primarily going to be trafficked by art collectors. It asks a question of who he wants to provoke first or who he wants to sort of build context around this work first. If it's art collectors, then the question is, is this work a bit of a gambit? Are they going to gamble on a semi absurdist idea? And of course, the answer was yes, they are going to gamble on that."
9. Wide of Comedian display area at Sotheby's
10. Tight of Comedian text display
11. Wide of Comedian with observer at angle
12. Pan reveal tight of Comedian with observer
13. Tight of Comedian at side angle

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New York - 11 November 2024
14. Medium of Comedian decals at a sales desk inside Sotheby's
15. SOUNDBITE (English) David Galperin, Sotheby's New York:
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"Comedian carries an auction estimate of 1 to $1.5 million. What you buy when you buy Cattelan's Comedian is not the banana itself, but a certificate of authenticity that grants the owner the permission and authority to reproduce this banana and duct tape on their wall as an original artwork. Comedian is on view now at Sotheby's New York at 1334 York Avenue and will be on view until the sale on November 20th."
16. Tight head-on of Comedian
17. Medium of Comedian decals at a sales desk inside Sotheby's
18. Wide of Sotheby's reception desk with Comedian decal
19. Wide of Sotheby's business front

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New York - 14 November 2024
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Chloe Cooper Jones, Columbia University:
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"He's often thought of as a sort of like trickster artist. When we're seeing his work with that duality of it's absolute humor and absurdity and its ability to poke fun at everybody, including himself, but also always seeing the undercurrent of the darkness of that humor. If we take that to the context of comedian, it's a much more interesting work. If it lives forever divorced of that context and it only lives in the sort of context of social media, rage, and sort of the discourse of rarefied air like in the art world, then it will probably be remembered as a much more superficial work than I think it has the potential to be.”

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New York - 11 November 2024
21. Pan of Sotheby's Comedian display text on installation
22. Tight of Comedian
23. Medium of Comedian with observer
24. Medium of Comedian decal at Sotheby's reception desk
25. Sotheby's sign outside business front
26. Extreme wide of Comedian
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