Maurizio Cattelan's 'America,' an 18-karat-gold toliet, is heading to auction this month via Sotheby's, where it may fetch $10 million.
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1 Million Penthouse Crowns One of London’s Old Gasholdersis one of two iterations of Cattelan’s gilded latrine. The first one popped up in 2016 at the Guggenheim in New York City, where visitors were invited to use the sculpture. After becoming an Internet sensation , will be installed as a bathroom in New York’s Breuer Building, which will be the site of Sotheby’s new home in the Big Apple this month. As is usually the case with Cattelan’s pieces, the toilet is full of juxtapositions in its form and material—something that shines a bright light on the art market as a whole.’s tour de force. Holding both a proverbial and literal mirror to the art world, the work confronts the most uncomfortable questions about art, and the belief systems held sacred to the institutions of the market and the museum,” David Galperin, Sotheby’s head of contemporary art, said in a statement. “In his grandest Duchampian gesture, Cattelan unravels a century of art history while imagining a new way of thinking: with his characteristic fearlessness, conceptual genius, and searing humor.” After its appearance at the Breuer Building, the toilet will be offered as part of Sotheby’s the Nowand Contemporary Evening Auction at 7 p.m. on November 18.This isn’t the first time one of Cattelan’s works causes a stir on the auction market. The artist’sthe title of that duct-taped banana, fetched a whopping $6.5 million at a Sotheby’s auction last year. The piece is, well, exactly what it sounds like; a crypto bro namedNicole Hoey is Robb Report's digital editor. While studying at Boston University, she read, wrote and read some more as an English and journalism major. A class taught by a Boston Globe copy editor…‘Wednesday’ Star Riki Lindhome’s Midcentury L.A. Home Lists for $2.8 MillionA Shohei Ohtani Home Run Ball From the NLCS Could Fetch More Than $1 Million at AuctionLeonard Lauder’s Legendary Art Collection Could Fetch Over $400 Million at Auction This Fall
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