Purchaser eats $6.2 million banana artwork: ‘Higher than others’ – Instances of India

HONG KONG: Crypto entrepreneur Justin Solar Friday fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2 million (over Rs 52.3 crore) on an paintings that includes a banana duct-taped to a wall – by consuming the fruit.
At one among Hong Kong’s priciest resorts, Solar chomped down on a banana in entrance of a big viewers after hailing the work as “iconic”, and drew parallels between conceptual artwork and cryptocurrency. “It is significantly better than different bananas. It is actually fairly good,” he stated.
Titled ‘Comic’, the work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was bought at a Sotheby’s public sale in New York final week, with Solar amongst seven bidders.
Solar stated he felt “disbelief” within the first 10 seconds after he gained the bid, earlier than realising “this might grow to be one thing massive”. Within the 10 seconds after that, he determined he would eat the banana.