‘Bog of Gold’ creator stuck a banana to a wall for £4.9m

The artist who made an 18 carat toilet stuck gold when he stuck a banana to a wall and sold it for £4.9m, a court heard. Three men are on trial for stealing the solid gold £4.8m lavatory pan from the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. The 18-carat gold loo was named ‘America’ by it’s creator, conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan. Barrister Kevin Dent told the trial at Oxford crown court that Cattelan was behind some other wacky work, including a…