NYC fruit vendor who sold $6.2M banana for pennies is still fuming: ‘I got 35 cents’
Shah Alam, 74, recently learned that a piece of his produce was used in Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s piece titled “Comedian” — taped to a gallery wall and sold at auction last week for the eye-popping price of $5.2 million plus more than $1 million in auction-house fees.
Crypto mogul eats banana he bought for $6.2 million and offers to buy 100,000 more from fruit vendor
Upon hearing how much Sun bought the fruit for, the vendor, Shah Alam, was in disbelief. Sun then promised to buy 100,000 more bananas from Alam, or $25,000 worth of produce, in a series of posts on X/Twitter.
Art Collector Who Bought a $6 Million Banana Offers to Buy 100,000 More
A week after a Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur bought an artwork composed of a fresh banana stuck to a wall with duct tape for $6.2 million at auction, the man, Justin Sun, announced a grand gesture on X.
Cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought 'comedian' banana art for $6.2 million eats it
Chinese-born Justin Sun paid $6.2million for a piece of artwork consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall and ate the fruit in Hong Kong
Crypto boss eats banana art he bought for over $6 million
Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun paid over $6 million for an artwork of a banana duck-taped to a wall. The billionaire kept his promise to eat the very pricey fruit in front of a crowd in Hong Kong.
Billionaire who bought $6 million fruit at art auction offers to buy 100,000 bananas from NYC vendor
The billionaire owner of a $6.2 million banana taped to a wall offered to buy 100,000 bananas from the 74-year-old Upper East Side fruit vendor who sold the banana used in the exhibition when it was auctioned last week.
Crypto mogul eats banana artwork he bought for 6.2 million dollars: 'It’s really quite good'
Crypto mogul Justin Sun made headlines once again on Friday as he fulfilled a quirky promise made after purchasing a piece of conceptual art worth $6.2 million. The artwork, titled Comedian, created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan,
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun eats banana art he bought for $6.2 million
It’s the $6.2 million snack. Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun on Friday scoffed down the duct-taped banana he bought for $6.2 million, adding extra absurdity to the absurdist art sale. Sun, 34, chomped down on the fruit in front of reporters in Hong Kong in what he called an “iconic” stunt,
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Justin Sun Promises to Buy 100,000 Bananas From Street Vendor Who Sold the Banana for Sotheby's $6.5 M. ‘Comedian'
The offer, though, fell flat after the fruit seller explained that the net profit from so many bananas would only be $6,000.
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A banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at a Sotheby's art auction
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Watch: Collector eats world-famous $6.2M banana
Last week, Chinese billionaire and cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun bought “Comedian,” a Maurizio Cattelan work of a ...