A much-publicized art piece made up of a single banana taped to a wall has sold for 6.2 million dollars.
一件被广泛报道的艺术品以620万美元的价格售出，这件艺术品是由一根香蕉粘在墙上制成的。
The sale happened Wednesday night during an auction in New York City at famous art seller Sotheby's.
此次拍卖于周三晚在纽约著名艺术品拍卖行苏富比拍卖行举行。
The work, called Comedian, was sold to cryptocurrency businessman Justin Sun.
这幅名为《喜剧演员》的作品被卖给了加密货币商人贾斯汀·孙。
He is a Chinese collector and founder of the cryptocurrency company Tron.
他是一位中国收藏家，也是加密货币公司Tron的创始人。
Sun placed the winning bid over the phone and the sale was completed in cryptocurrency.
孙通过电话出价中标，并以加密货币完成了销售。
Before the auction, Sotheby's said the unusual art piece was expected to bring in at least 1.5 million dollars.
苏富比拍卖行在拍卖前表示，这件不同寻常的艺术品预计至少能卖到150万美元。
But the price quickly started rising after the auction began, with people bidding inside the auction room, as well as on the phone and online.
但拍卖开始后，价格迅速上涨，人们在拍卖室内、电话和网上竞价。
The art piece had already sold three times for prices between 120,000 dollars and 150,000 dollars, The Associated Press reported.
据美联社报道，这件艺术品已经以12万至15万美元的价格售出了三次。
Sun said in a statement after the auction that Comedian "is not just an artwork." He added that the piece "bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community."
孙在拍卖后的一份声明中说，喜剧演员“不仅仅是一件艺术品”。他补充说，这件作品“连接了艺术、表情包和加密货币社区的世界”。
Sun said he planned to eat the banana, as at least two onlookers did when the artwork was presented at places around the world.
孙说他打算把香蕉吃了，就像这幅作品在世界各地展出时，至少有两名旁观者所做的那样。
Sotheby's says the fruit was always meant to be replaced repeatedly, along with the duct tape.
苏富比拍卖行表示，这些水果和管道胶带都是要反复更换的。
The work was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
该作品由意大利艺术家毛里齐奥·卡特兰创作。
It was first presented in 2019 at the Art Basel Miami Beach show in Miami, Florida.
它于2019年在佛罗里达州迈阿密举行的巴塞尔迈阿密海滩艺术博览会上首次亮相。
The piece quickly led to much public discussion about what should be considered art.
这件作品很快引发了公众关于什么应该被视为艺术的讨论。
Comedian belongs to a kind of art known as conceptual artwork.
喜剧演员属于一种被称为概念艺术的艺术。
A conceptual piece is one in which the idea or meaning behind the work is more important than the finished object itself.
概念作品是作品背后的想法或意义比成品本身更重要的作品。
The head of contemporary art at Sotheby's is David Galperin.
苏富比当代艺术主管是大卫·加尔佩林。
He told the AP he understands the piece's popularity because it is highly provocative.
他告诉美联社，他理解这幅作品的受欢迎程度，因为它非常具有挑衅性。
Provocative describes something likely to produce a strong reaction and much public debate.
“挑衅的”指的是可能引起强烈反应和公众辩论的事情。
"What Cattelan is really doing is turning a mirror to the contemporary art world," Galperin said.
“卡特兰真正在做的是为当代艺术世界提供一面镜子，”加尔佩林说。
He added that he thinks Comedian can cause people to question what values should be attached to artworks and what can be defined as artwork.
他补充说，他认为《喜剧演员》可以引起人们对艺术品应该赋予什么价值以及什么可以被定义为艺术品的质疑。
"What you buy when you buy Cattelan's Comedian is not the banana itself, but a certificate of authenticity," Galperin said.
加尔佩林说：“当你买卡特兰的《喜剧演员》时，你买的不是香蕉本身，而是一张真品证书。”
That document, he added, gives the owner permission to reproduce the banana and duct tape on their own wall as an original artwork by the artist.
他补充说，这份文件允许业主在自己的墙上复制香蕉和管道胶带，作为艺术家的原创作品。
The sale of Comedian came shortly after Sotheby's auctioned off a famed artwork in the Water Lilies series by French painter Claude Monet.
在《喜剧演员》被拍卖前不久，苏富比拍卖了法国画家克劳德·莫奈的《睡莲》系列中的一件著名艺术品。
That piece sold on Monday for 65.5 million dollars.
该作品周一以6550万美元的价格售出。
When asked to compare Cattelan's simple wall art to major works like Monet's, Galperin said that form of art, called impressionism, was not taken seriously when that movement first began.
当被要求将卡特兰的简单墙壁艺术与莫奈的主要作品进行比较时，加尔佩林说，这种被称为印象派的艺术形式在印象派运动刚开始时并没有受到重视。
"No important, profound, meaningful artwork of the past 100 years or 200 years, or our history for that matter, did not provoke some kind of discomfort when it was first unveiled," Galperin said.
加尔佩林说：“在过去的100年或200年里，或者在我们的历史上，没有一件重要的、深刻的、有意义的艺术品在首次亮相时不引起某种不适。”
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