“It’s much better than other bananas,” said the entrepreneur whose fortune is estimated at more than a billion.
He ended up eating it! Without really creating a surprise, since Justin Sun, the cryptocurrency mogul who bought a banana taped to the wall using silver adhesive tape, and considered a work of art, announced on Instagram that he would taste it .
“An additional absurdity to the absurd sale”, considers the New York Post, recalling the staggering amount of the “work of art”, sold for 6.2 million dollars (5.9 million euros).
“It’s much better than other bananas,” the 34-year-old businessman said in Hong Kong this Friday, November 29, after his first bite.
Bought for 35 cents
This banana was bought from a street vendor for 35 cents, then taped to the wall by the artist Maurizio Cattelan. By acquiring it at an auction in New York on November 20, the Chinese-American entrepreneur declared that he had paid this fortune because he thought “it could be something big”.
This is not the first time that Maurizio Cattelan has been talked about. In 2019, he had already sold a first similar work to an American gallery for $120,000. To denounce its price, the American artist David Datuna took this banana off the wall and ate it. Another copy was donated to the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
100,000 bananas to distribute
Shah Alam, the fruit's first seller, told the New York Times that he was “a poor man,” working for $12 an hour. “To thank Mr. Shah Alam, I decided to buy 100,000 bananas from its stand on the Upper East Side of New York. These bananas will be distributed free of charge throughout the world,” reacted Sun on
