Steve Cohen Identified as Seller of Cattelan’s Gold Toilet at Sotheby’s Nov. 18 Auction

Overview

• Steven A. Cohen, the Mets owner and Point72 founder, has been reported as the consignor of Maurizio Cattelan’s 18‑karat gold toilet, America (2016).
• The work will be offered in New York on November 18 in Sotheby’s Now and Contemporary evening sale with an opening bid around $10 million tied to the spot price of gold.
• Sotheby’s confirmed there is no irrevocable bid in place, leaving the result entirely to competitive bidding.
• The sculpture weighs over 100 kilograms and is fully functional, but it will be shown “out of order” for one‑at‑a‑time viewing in a bathroom at the auction house’s Breuer Building.
• Only two examples were fabricated from an edition of three plus two artist proofs, and the other fabricated version was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019 and never recovered.