This was reported by the Sotheby's auction house.
Previously, this installation was listed for sale with a price tag of $1 million. Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun made an offer six times greater and became the owner of this artwork.
This installation, titled "Comedian," was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. In 2019, he made several copies, one of which was displayed at a museum in Miami. Interestingly, one of them was eaten by another artist right at the exhibition.
At that time, two pieces were purchased by private collectors for $120,000, while a third was bought for a larger (but undisclosed) amount and later gifted to the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
In October, the third banana was also put up for sale. It was valued between $1 million and $1.5 million.