Fine art, featuring a banana taped to the wall with duct tape, is on display in Miami city for $ 120,000.

The work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was presented to the public by the Perrotin contemporary art gallery at the Art Basel Miami Beach exhibition center on December 4. The work, called "Comedian," consists of a yellow banana purchased by a Cattelan at a grocery store in Miami and a piece of duct tape.

Perrotin said the work has three versions, two of which were sold for $ 120,000 to two French collectors. The other version costs $ 150,000 and will be sold to a museum.

Emmanuel Perrotin, founder of the showroom of the same name, explains that bananas are "a symbol of global trade, a kind of lingo, as well as a classic humorous image". He said that the artist Cattelan has turned mundane objects into "a medium of interest and critical art".

However, Perrotin did not mention what the buyer would do when the bananas began to rot.

Perrotin said that Cattelan came up with the idea a year ago. At that time, he thought of a banana figurine. "Every time he travels, he buys a banana and hangs it up in the hotel room for inspiration. He made some models, first made of plastic, then copper, before returning to the idea. It was originally a real banana, "according to a Perrotin statement.

The work is controversial on Twitter, in which most said they were shocked at the price and significance of the bananas. "There are no words to describe this stupidity," one commented.

"I'm waiting to see something like a mango or tamarind," another quipped.

Artist Cattelan was previously famous for works that challenged popular culture. One of them is an 18-carat gold-worth toilet worth about $ 6 million, causing a stir in September when stolen and stolen from Bleinheim Palace in England.

Five suspects were arrested and the insurance company of the work offered a reward of $ 124,000 in the hope of finding the toilet again.