Overview

• Friday’s consumption marks the fourth time a visitor has eaten the banana in Maurizio Cattelan’s conceptual work since its 2019 debut.
• Security staff intervened calmly and reattached a fresh banana, ensuring the exhibition proceeded without disruption.
• The perishable fruit is valued at over €1 million to challenge notions of material substance versus speculative market worth in contemporary art.
• Editions of 'Comedian' have sold for sums ranging from $120,000 to $6.2 million, with past consumers including performance artist David Datuna and entrepreneur Justin Sun.
• Cattelan said he regretted that the visitor “confused the fruit with the artwork” by eating only the banana and not its peel or tape.