I admire how all persons in the room can keep a straight face and not burst out giggling about the sillyness of this.... I can understand people paying 65 millions for a Monet or even a billion for a Vincent van Gogh, but i truly don t understand this one here...
If Cattelan, the artist, will donate the proceeds to help some poor communities, God bless him. If he keeps his money just for himself, good for him. He had all those rich stupid people fooled. Buyer Justin Sun could have used the money to help others rather than insulting humanity. But as they say, to each his own. That's their money.
My comment in the NY Times: I watched this and I feel very sad that a reputable auction house participated in this. It's like Sotheby's is admitting the emperor has no clothes.
you are totally wrong: it is a spitting of the auction house and they do not even realize that the wind of art is causing the spit to land in their own face.
5:48 “Don’t let it slip away” “You’re not getting these jokes” Oh, we’re GETTING the joke! The ARTIST! The SELLER! The BUYER! Even the dada anti art movement had nonsensical whimsy. This is an embarrassing joke to all involved in it!
I love art, in all forms, even the expensive and occasional bizarre pieces, but this is absurd beyond belief, it highlights the truly ridiculous value that can be placed on the most mundane of objects with no artistic merit or accountability, the person and persons involved in this farce should be ashamed, deeply, in the world we currently live in this is just undeniably shameful in every regard.
Last night's auction was a strange one indeed. It started off heated but then the air was let out of the balloon. Soon after the euphoria of Cattelan's banana, a slew of Lichtenstein's came up for auction. People were bored and some left the room. Oliver Barker tried his best to keep the energy up to no avail. Jeff Koon's, "Woman In A Tub" was offered at Lot #25. By this time, people were fatigued and the work was met with a whimper, failing to meet the minimum. The final third of the auction faired no better. The fault, as I see it, was with the ordering of the lots. Instead of front loading high profile work it would've been better to distribute quality equally throughout the auction. Perhaps a break in the action would've helped too.
I wonder what will happen around the banana in its new home. Hopefully, not yogurt with oranges. I had call the ambulance after two kilos of that once.
This was a really dumb move by Sotheby’s to do this ! People can say what they wanna say about art but Sotheby’s used to be a very respectable auction house and now it’s just becoming a joke
I think it’s worth clarifying that the 6.2mil was for the CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY, not the actual ‘artwork’ which includes the tape, banana and wall. This means that the buyer can actually eat the banana and dispose of the duct tape, and repeat the process of taping a new banana to the wall while still being deemed as an ‘authentic’ artwork as long as the buyer can produce the certificate of authenticity
This is a mockery for the art world and dilutes the value of real artwork, from real artists, that sold for significantly less than this price. What's next.. a tangerine glued to a lamp post?
It boggles the mind what good that money could have done, if donated to a worthy cause. But it's play money, and this is "play" in it's most ridiculous state of being. The game is "what can we get people to bid on for millions of dollars?" I think next they should throw dog poop on a canvas and "go for it!"
what you people are doing is unethical, shame on you! this conceptual art piece is nothing but a marketing joke and you are taking advantage of people without an art education. Your art curator is calling it art so she wont get fired. You have lowered the standard of your auction house down to a supermarket, can I order some nuts cause you have to be crazy to buy this bullshit.
Unpopular opinion: I think this is fantastic. It’s a great way for people who might never experience a Sotheby’s auction to see one. Don’t gatekeep-art is for everyone.
Absolutely crazy...what is happening!?! Maybe i am old fashion, but i dont get it!?! Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder❤ Congrats to the winner for not letting it slip away 😅
The two guys standing on either side guarding that ..... * sigh *.....'duct taped banana'........make like 20 bucks an hour. .....and probably HAVE a banana in their lunch bags. 😂😂🤦♂🤦♂ The banana made millions. Ain't that a kick in the damn ribs. Hey, I got a 'Cucumber glued to a Beachball.' Only asking 50k. Any takers?
After the auction, the comedian laughed aloud and said: "These are the world's most stupid people in the history of mankind" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
he's a hypocrite, since he accepted the auction in the first place
His reaction was disrespectful..... He is not the real artist. Insulting real artists.
Lies again? Expensive Face Brazil Bananas
The artist was very grateful, he said "thanks a bunch"!
The artist is laughing at us big time
its original price was $120K, imagine buying it for 120k and selling for 6M a few years later.
I admire how all persons in the room can keep a straight face and not burst out giggling about the sillyness of this.... I can understand people paying 65 millions for a Monet or even a billion for a Vincent van Gogh, but i truly don t understand this one here...
Imagine a monkey sees this, you’ll have a hard time explaining to him that humans are smart
From Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo and Rembrandt to a banana tapped to a wall.
Human evolution at its finest
Just bought a pound of bananas for 57c WHAT A DEAL!
Saved 6,199,999.43
Frugal genius
Math doer😂🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌hold this🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🗽🎤🎤🎤did he say split the bid? Are t hey dating now?
but is it taped to the wall? you have to add the price of the gorilla tape too!
😂😂😂😂😂 👏👏👍👍
Hah, and the duct tape??? It could cost 500k per inch!
Imagine having 6m spare change for that. Meanwhile there are people who don’t even have enough for their rent on their one bedroom apartment
One bed apartment is luxury my friend, I’m sharing with 4 more people in order to not be homeless 👍
Inflation out of control for fruits
They are selling the certificate of authenticity/artist proof here. Not the banana and tape itself.
NFTs in a nutshell.
Maurizio had the last laugh, the joke is on the buyer...🤣
If Cattelan, the artist, will donate the proceeds to help some poor communities, God bless him. If he keeps his money just for himself, good for him. He had all those rich stupid people fooled.
Buyer Justin Sun could have used the money to help others rather than insulting humanity.
But as they say, to each his own. That's their money.
im just lost my mind. what the hell is going on here. 😂😂
😂
Not you. The buyer lost his mind. More money than brains.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
A Einstein..
My comment in the NY Times: I watched this and I feel very sad that a reputable auction house participated in this. It's like Sotheby's is admitting the emperor has no clothes.
Thats the most precise analogy of Art market
Your outrage is part of the piece.
@@marknaughton6798 lmao
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Oh, naked emperors are TIGHT.
What a smack in the face to real artists producing works of art which take hundreds of hours to make.
you are totally wrong:
it is a spitting of the auction house and they do not even realize that the wind of art is causing the spit to land in their own face.
It has nothing to do with the art anymore. It is the game of auctioning.
5:48 “Don’t let it slip away” “You’re not getting these jokes” Oh, we’re GETTING the joke! The ARTIST! The SELLER! The BUYER! Even the dada anti art movement had nonsensical whimsy. This is an embarrassing joke to all involved in it!
I love art, in all forms, even the expensive and occasional bizarre pieces, but this is absurd beyond belief, it highlights the truly ridiculous value that can be placed on the most mundane of objects with no artistic merit or accountability, the person and persons involved in this farce should be ashamed, deeply, in the world we currently live in this is just undeniably shameful in every regard.
I don't get it. $5.2mm was final bid. Where'd $6.2 mm come from?
taxes + buyer's premium
What an Insult to real artists. The world has gone mad.
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Society need help.
Last night's auction was a strange one indeed. It started off heated but then the air was let out of the balloon. Soon after the euphoria of Cattelan's banana, a slew of Lichtenstein's came up for auction. People were bored and some left the room. Oliver Barker tried his best to keep the energy up to no avail. Jeff Koon's, "Woman In A Tub" was offered at Lot #25. By this time, people were fatigued and the work was met with a whimper, failing to meet the minimum. The final third of the auction faired no better. The fault, as I see it, was with the ordering of the lots. Instead of front loading high profile work it would've been better to distribute quality equally throughout the auction. Perhaps a break in the action would've helped too.
Perhaps now they come to be entertained, not to buy serious art.
I would have paid 7 Million if it was Gorilla Tape
what were they thinking? some people simply have no use for money.
I wonder what will happen around the banana in its new home. Hopefully, not yogurt with oranges. I had call the ambulance after two kilos of that once.
Del monte 🤭🎃🤑🍌
I mean, it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars? - Lucille Bluth
This was a really dumb move by Sotheby’s to do this !
People can say what they wanna say about art but Sotheby’s used to be a very respectable auction house and now it’s just becoming a joke
it is a spitting of the auction house and they do not even realize that the wind of art is causing the spit to land in their own face.
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@@OlafSager 💩
We went from Da Vinci to this
lol !
exactly my thoughts....but i m of the opinion anyway that over the last 2 generations people have gotten dumber and dumber...
“Comedian” is the best word for it, this is indeed a proper circus show🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
I got an apple and some duct tape lying around. Should I give Sotheby's a call?
Yes
After this event - a mockery of true art, of course, Sotheby's auction house should lose all credibility and go bankrupt.
THE WORLD HAS GONE TOTALLY MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absurdity in Full Display
I think it’s worth clarifying that the 6.2mil was for the CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY, not the actual ‘artwork’ which includes the tape, banana and wall. This means that the buyer can actually eat the banana and dispose of the duct tape, and repeat the process of taping a new banana to the wall while still being deemed as an ‘authentic’ artwork as long as the buyer can produce the certificate of authenticity
What am I missing? He said and it was displayed 5.2 mililon dollars not 6.2, did it not?
1 million dollar fee for the auction house gets added on.
Taxes and fees
The worlds gone banana's😂😂😂
If you want to give your money away give it to charity !! This is ridiculous
hm....i thought about it one more time and came to the conclusion: Money laundring....?
Crypto accepted… the art market is the last unregulated Wild West!
Can someone explain why this isn't just capital gains tax avoidance?
i always thought that Sotheby's was a reputable and respected place, i was mistaken.
This is a mockery for the art world and dilutes the value of real artwork, from real artists, that sold for significantly less than this price. What's next.. a tangerine glued to a lamp post?
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I am placing myself here for auction I now want to LIVE, not MERELY EXIST.
Who's here???
It boggles the mind what good that money could have done, if donated to a worthy cause. But it's play money, and this is "play" in it's most ridiculous state of being. The game is "what can we get people to bid on for millions of dollars?" I think next they should throw dog poop on a canvas and "go for it!"
Its a money laundry probably.
For sure, but with this news will be easily to identify who is making that business xD
i wouldn t say "probably"...
The people answering phone calls are all smiling at the the other ones sitting at the bottom part .They don't have any idea of what going on...lol
Ridiculousness in full display!
Utter, utter, garbage. The purchaser should be put up for the Moron of the Year Award.
Non si poteva far dare anche 1 kg di mandarini?😂😂
I sold a banana to myself for $20 millions.
This was John Cena's presentation on SNL except for, his banana was nailed to to a piece of plywood.
I'm sorry, but I love this more than anything I've seen auctioned.
Money laundering at its finest
Wait it's 5.2, not 6.2, what are they talking about in the title?
5.2M+20% seller fee = 6.2M
He obviously put the saying “ there’s a fool born every minute” to good use!
Welcome to the simulation.. meaning anything is possible.
the sale went bananas 🥳🤣
6.2 millions and the banana must be replaced every week.
Likes/dislikes disabled because Sotheby's knows how pathetic this is.
How about paying RM6.2 Million for my "banana"!?
it truly is a comedian, creating a comical comedy scene...
When the banana will get rotten😂
This is disgusting
World has gone nuts. 😂😂😂
I unsubscribe from the channel and will never ever attend or buy in a Sotheby´s auction.
I find it to be the reverse of Magrittes' "ceci n'est pas une pipe" and I love it
If it's organic and non-gmo, I'll bid seven ... dollars that is.
I wonder what ET is thinking about us
Its going bananas at Sotheby’s
At the final twilight of capitalism everyone will be a billionaire.
Duchamp once drew a check to pay his dentist, and he buy back the same check years later! find the differences....
#4:16 got me 😊
I thought it just 5.2 Million dollars but almost all of them saying 6.2 Million Dollars. 🤔
6.2 includes the auction house fee.
The banana itself was bought for 35p in the corner shop 🤷🏻♀️
I ran to the comments like an Olympic sprinter!!!
That’s bananas! At least tell me he painted the damn thing and it just looks that brilliantly 3D, or that he carved the banana out of marble.
how much for a banana ball? (and cure)
I have 87 Million Pepe. Is that an acceptable form of payment?
Somebody went bananas while buying this piece. 😂
How much will a duct taped apple or pear sell for?
the mystery of whats in the banana
Potassium
For a fucking banana? 🧐
That is company profit well spent! Who needs to pay christmas bonuses anyway to those pesky employees.
what you people are doing is unethical, shame on you! this conceptual art piece is nothing but a marketing joke and you are taking advantage of people without an art education. Your art curator is calling it art so she wont get fired. You have lowered the standard of your auction house down to a supermarket, can I order some nuts cause you have to be crazy to buy this bullshit.
I want to know why the final price is $5.2 million but at the end is $6.2 million... ¿the 1 million is a fee or something?
Yeah, 5.2 million goes to the person selling it and additional money goes to Sotheby’s for doing the auction
He says 5 million 2, why does the title say 6 million 2? Do they have to pay Sotherby's 1 million for the auction?
Okay, I scrolled down far enough to see that people say it's taxes plus buyers premium.
1 millllllllion dollllllarrrrrrrsssss- Dr. Evil...
Buying some art history
How to preserve it
Priceless!
I agree 👍 💯
Unpopular opinion: I think this is fantastic. It’s a great way for people who might never experience a Sotheby’s auction to see one. Don’t gatekeep-art is for everyone.
What are you babbling about? This channel shows Sotheby auctions all the time?
Am I missing something?
I have better works than this, "BUT" I'm not famous yet.
That's just a banana!
😂😂😂 how STUPID U CAN BUY 0:30 CENT 😂😂😂
Absolutely crazy...what is happening!?! Maybe i am old fashion, but i dont get it!?! Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder❤ Congrats to the winner for not letting it slip away 😅
Sorry…are we being punked? Is it April 1st?
what happens when the banana goes rotten?
artist swaps it out
Realization
Omg i just ate my banana. I would have sold it much less!
Please ! Please tell me , that what i just saw, was an unknown Monty Python Sketch
Well the title said it all…
Korean language
웃프다
6.2 for a banana interesting way to pass money what did you buy? A banana.
The two guys standing on either side guarding that ..... * sigh *.....'duct taped banana'........make like 20 bucks an hour.
.....and probably HAVE a banana in their lunch bags. 😂😂🤦♂🤦♂
The banana made millions. Ain't that a kick in the damn ribs. Hey, I got a 'Cucumber glued to a Beachball.' Only asking 50k. Any takers?