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Originally Posted by gunboat82
He didn't pay $6.2M for banana art. He paid $6.2M for the kind of publicity you can only get by doing something as attention-grabbing as paying $6.2M for a banana.
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If memory serves me right, that's one of the justifications Todd McFarlane made for paying $3 million for the Mark McGwire home run ball. According to
a 2022 Athletic article, McFarlane has "spoken several times in recent years about the money angle, saying that the balls more than paid for themselves because curiosity about them in the business world opened doors to additional deals and revenue."