The piece, by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana to a wall — goes up for auction Tuesday evening at Sotheby's in New York.

The piece, by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana to a wall — goes up for auction Tuesday evening at Sotheby's in New York.

A golden toilet and several Gustav Klimt artworks fetched a combined $404.5 million at auctions Tuesday night.

Un inodoro de oro de 18 quilates obra del controvertido artista Maurizio Cattelan se vende por 12,1 millones de dólares en una subasta en Sotheby's.

The first edition of Maurizio Cattelan's work was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019.