It sold for $120,000 (£91,300) just last week - but the artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall has now been scoffed.

Performance artist David Datuna posted videos online showing himself peeling the fruit from the wall and consuming it in front of scores of onlookers at the Art Basel Miami Beach exhibition on Saturday.


Entitled Hungry Artist, he described eating the banana as an "art performance" and said the Comedian installation, by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was "very delicious".

"I love Maurizio Cattelan artwork and I really love this installation. It's very delicious," he wrote on Instagram alongside three videos of his "performance".

Already fairly ripe when it went up for sale, the original banana was never going to last long.

Fortunately for the buyer, the work was apparently sold with a certificate of authenticity, with owners allowed to replace the focal fruit as and when it is needed.


However, police were reportedly later sent out to guard the artwork once the banana was replaced.

It was one of three editions of the work, with two selling for around $120,000 (£91,000) earlier this week and the price of the third reportedly being raised to $150,000 (£114,000).

Gallery owner Emmanuel Perrotin, who has worked with Cattelan for more than 25 years, dismissed the idea that the artwork is a joke following its sale, telling Artnet that every aspect was very carefully considered - from the shape of the fruit, to the angle it has been fixed with duct tape to the wall, to its placement.

And the original banana being eaten in no way diminishes the integrity, the Miami Herald quotes Lucien Terras, director of museum relations for Galerie Perrotin, as saying.

"He did not destroy the artwork. The banana is the idea," Terras said.

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Expensive Banana!

It wont even taste different from my #200 Banana

Ridiculousness.

For Ogede?

Na wah o

Crazy world

Wetin Musa no go see for musa specie ?

The artist that created the banana artwork and the gallery that sold it are all yahoo boys.
A piece of fruit that cost N50 by the roadside was sold for more than N43 million.