India, Oct. 24 -- Maurizio Cattelan's banana. Yes, that one that was stuck to a wall with duct tape and went viral in 2019. With the Italian artist, the ridiculousness is the point - that's why the work was titled Comedian. Crypto investor Justin Sun bought the work for $6.24 million at an auction in 2024. In exchange, he received a certificate of authenticity and the right to replace the banana too.

Congo, the chimp who painted. Congo lived a short life (1954-1964) but he was painting by age four and completed some 400 abstract-impressionist works in his lifetime. His fans included Pablo Picasso and the Duke of Edinburgh. He had a curator too - artist-zoologist Desmond Morris. Like human artists, his works went up in value after his dea...