H ow much would one be willing to pay for a toilet? It could be as much as $12.1 million or ₹ 1070.92 crore if it comes in 18-karat gold and carries the signature of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

That’s the amount his toilet sculpture titled America, weighing 101.2 kg, fetched at a Sotheby’s auction on November 18. The bidding began at around $10 million, based on the price of the gold it carried on the given day.

Belonging to a collector who had acquired it in 2017 from the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, this is one of the editions of the flushable artwork made by Cattelan. Another edition was famously placed at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2016, where it could be used by visitors and often had a queue of people lined up to take a look. The museum had als

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