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The World’s Most Expensive Banana Led Sotheby’s Dynamic Now and Contemporary Sale
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Duct-taped banana sells for $6.2 million at art auction
An enigmatic painting of a nighttime streetscape under a pale blue daytime sky by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte sold for $121.2 million at an auction in New York.