Controversial artist who duct-taped a banana to a wall is selling his $10M solid gold toilet

He’s sewage nan Midas flush.

Art world troll Maurizio Cattelan took nan world by large wind aft his notorious duct-taped banana sold for over $6 cardinal astatine Sotheby’s past fall. This year, nan Italian prankster will apt move “crap” into golden erstwhile his notorious 18-karat, coagulated golden toilet goes nether nan hammer adjacent month.

Carved retired of a staggering 223 pounds of gold, nan ritzy commode will deed nan Gotham auction house’s “The Now and Contemporary” evening waste connected November 18, ARTnews reported.

The opening bid will statesman astatine a staggering $10 cardinal according to existent prices for nan precious metallic — but Sotheby’s believes it will fetch much than that, nan Wall Street Journal reported.

From November 8, visitors will beryllium capable to sojourn nan aureate throne, which will beryllium installed successful a bath astatine nan Breuer Building, Sotheby’s caller headquarters.

Visitors are reminded to look but don’t flush, however. While nan this blinged-out vessel is really functional, and users person been invited to relieve themselves successful this gaudy potty successful nan past, location will beryllium nary sitting upon nan throne this clip around.

“We don’t want group sitting connected nan art,” said Sotheby’s expert David Galperin.

Cattelan primitively devised nan paradoxical activity arsenic a shape of societal commentary, labeling it “America” to item nan absurdity of which spots successful a depository get deemed ineffable versus profane.

He said that he wanted to put thing priceless successful nan “the slightest noble and astir basal place,” thereby bridging nan spread betwixt precocious shape and guidelines function.

The first loop of nan aureate toilet was installed successful New York’s Guggenheim Museum successful 2016, wherever it made a awesome scatter pinch critics comparing nan exorbitant John to Dada visionary Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 porcelain urinal, “Fountain.”

Meanwhile, a whopping 100,000 visitors lined up to see—and use—Cattelan’s commode. Among nan visitors were former Post contributor Chris Perez, who described nan acquisition arsenic “one of nan smoothest, astir luxurious feelings I person ever knowledgeable successful my life.”

“Watching nan h2o swirl backmost down nan gilded vessel was hands down, nan astir satisfying portion of nan full experience,” Perez gushed.

The gilded sculpture received further acclaim aft it went connected show astatine nan UK’s Blenheim Palace, wherever it was installed successful Winston Churchill’s wood-paneled bathroom. However, successful a brazen heist, sledge-hammer wielding thieves collapsed successful and snatched nan $6 cardinal opus, causing flooding issues successful nan historical home.

Three men were yet convicted for their domiciled successful nan theft, but this type of nan artwork was ne'er recovered.

It’s reportedly been a banner mates of years for Cattelan, whose consequence duct-taped to a wall, “Comedian,” became a popular civilization sensation aft going for quadruple its $1.5 cardinal precocious estimate. 

The adhesive fruit, of which location person been aggregate iterations, has besides been credited pinch renewing liking successful an creation marketplace connected life support.

Since its coming-out statement astatine Miami’s Art Basel backmost successful 2019, Sotheby said nan consequence has “single-handedly prompted nan world to reconsider really we specify art, and nan worth we activity successful it.”

“Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’ became 1 of nan astir talked-about sensations of nan creation world,” Sotheby’s David Galperin told The Post, adding that nan activity “continues to seizure nan zeitgeist.”