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Peeling the $6.2 Million Banana: An Auction Explainer
By Zachary Small
Nov. 21, 5:05 p.m. ET
It wasn’t just a banana. It was a banana with a back story.
The spectacle on Wednesday evening, when a Sotheby’s auctioneer in Manhattan warned potential bidders not to let Maurizio Cattelan’s fruity artwork “slip away,” ended with a duct-taped banana selling for an astonishing $6.2 million, with fees.-NYT