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Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Returns to the Market at Sotheby’s This November

Maurizio Cattelan, America, 2016. Courtesy Sotheby s Maurizio Cattelan’s gold toilet America first captured public attention when it was installed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where more than 100,000 visitors lined up to photograph or even use it during the artist’s major 2009 exhibition. The 18-karat solid gold toilet made headlines again when it was stolen in a daring overnight raid from Cattelan’s show at Blenheim Palace—proving, as the Mona Lisa once did, that theft can make a work even more iconic by thrusting it into the public eye. The heist of the high-value object, insured for £4.8 million, caused structural damage and flooding at the UNESCO World Heritage...


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