Maurizio Cattelan

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2017 by the present owner

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Maurizio Cattelan: “America”, September 2016 - September 2017 (another edition)

Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Art Foundation, Victory is Not an Option, September 2019, p. 99, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition)

The below is a representative selection of the extensive ongoing media coverage of America. Live coverage is ongoing, and further literature references are available on request

Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Maurizio Cattelan: All (revised edition), 2016, no. 112, pp. 10, 140, 255 and p. 248, illustrated in color (rendering) 

Randy Kennedy, “Duchamp, Eat Your Heart Out: The Guggenheim Is Installing a Gold Toilet,” The New York Times, 19 April 2016, illustrated in color (rendering) (online)

Calvin Tompkins, “Gold Toilet,” The New Yorker, 14 September 2016, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Merritt Kennedy, “Behold The Throne: There's A Golden Toilet At The Guggenheim,” NPR, 15 September 2016, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Chris Perez, “Our Country Whiz of Thee,” New York Post, 16 September 2016, illustrated in color (on the cover) and p. 5, illustrated (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) 

Aaron Sidder, “You’ll Want to Sit on Guggenheim’s Latest Piece, an 18-Karat Golden Toilet,” Smithsonian Magazine, 16 September 2016, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (online)

Michael Solomon, “Maurizio Cattelan Creates a Gold Toilet for the Guggenheim,” Forbes, 16 September 2016, illustrated in color (video) (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Carey Dunne, “Waiting to Pee in ‘America,’ the Gold Toilet at the Guggenheim,” Hyperallergic, 23 September 2016 (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Ralph Gardner Jr., “A Gold Toilet That’s Worth the Weight,” The Wall Street Journal, 25 September 2016, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Wilbert L. Cooper, “Maurizio Cattelan Is One of Art’s Greatest Mysteries,” VICE, 18 May 2017, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2017) (another edition) (online)

Erika Harwood, “The Art Museum That Offered Donald Trump a Gold Toilet,” Vanity Fair, 25 January 2018, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Wallace Ludel, “Maurizio Cattelan’s Solid Gold Toilet Will Be Installed at Winston Churchill’s Birthplace,” Artsy, 3 May 2019, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Jacopo Zotti, “Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet, Once Offered to Donald Trump, is on Its Way to the UK,” The Art Newspaper, 3 May 2019, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Jordi Lippe-Mcgraw, “Gold Toilet Offered to Donald Trump Will Be Housed at Winston Churchill’s Birthplace,” Architectural Digest, 6 May 2019, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Alex Needham, “Interview: Your Chance to Feel Very Flush: The 18-Cart Golden Toilet Hits Britain,” The Guardian, 3 September 2019, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Javier Pes, “Maurizio Cattelan Has Installed His Golden Toilet in the Stately Bathroom Where Winston Churchill Once Sat,” Artnet News, 13 September 2019, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition) (online)

Gareth Harris, “‘I Wish It Was a Prank’: Maurizio Cattelon on The Surreal Theft of His Golden Toilet,” The Art Newspaper, 14 September 2019, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition) (online)

Kaly Soto, “Golden, Going, Gone: 18-Karat Gold Toilet Is Stolen,” The New York Times, 14 September 2019, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition) (online)

Steph Eckardt, “Who Stole Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet?,” W Magazine, 16 September 2019, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition) and illustrated in color, (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Jonathan Jones, “The Stolen Golden Toilet: The Perfect Punchline to an 18-Carat Joke,” The Guardian, 16 September 2019, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition) and illustrated in color, (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Charlotte Jansen, “After a Brazen Art Heist at Blenheim Palace, the Joke’s on Trickster Maurizio Cattelan,” Wallpaper*, 17 September 2019, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition) (online)

Brian P. Kelly, “In Defense of Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana,” The Wall Street Journal, 9 December 2019 (text) (online)

Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm, Art & Crime, Cologne 2020, pp. 25-27 (text) and pl. 4, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition)

Jessica Cerasi, Contemporary Art Decoded, London 2021, p. 130 (text) and p. 131, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition)

Jerry Saltz, Art is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night, New York 2022, p. 13 (text)

Karen Marta, Maurizio Cattelan: 2000 Words, Athens 2022, pp. 36-37 (text) and p. 105, illustrated in color (rendering)

Olivia Land, “UK Police Think They’ve Flushed Out The Loo-ters Who Stole $6M Gold Toilet,” New York Post, 31 August 2023, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Alex Marshall, “Four Men Charged in the Case of the Missing Golden Toilet,” The New York Times, 6 November 2023, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition) (online)

Elaine Velie, “Shit Hits the Fan for Alleged Thieves of $6M Gold Toilet,” Hyperallergic, 7 November 2023, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition) (online)

Kelly Grovier, The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments, London 2023, pp. 213 (text) and p. 214, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition)

Adrian Horton, “From $120,000 Bananas to Gold Toilets: Art Provocateur Maurizio Cattelan is Back,” The Guardian, 15 May 2024 (text) (online)

Zachary Small,  “Who’s Laughing Now: Banana-as-Art Sells for $6.2 Million at Sotheby’s,” The New York Times, 20 November 2024 (text) (online)

Martin Bailey, “What Links Van Gogh, Trump, a Golden Toilet, and Cattelan’s $6.2m Banana?,” The Art Newspaper, 13 December 2024, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Margaret Carrigan, “Two Men Jailed for Theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.1 Million Gold Toilet,” Artnet News, 15 June 2025, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition) (online) 

Alexandria Sillo, “Maurizio Cattelan’s $6 Million Gold Toilet Was Stolen in Under 5 Minutes,” Galerie Magazine, 26 February 2025 (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Isa Farfan, “Newly Released Footage Shows Theft of 18-Karat Golden Toilet,” Hyperallergic, 26 February 2025, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online)

Alex Marshall, “Two Men Found Guilty in Theft of $6 Million Gold Toilet,” The New York Times, 18 March 2025, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition) (online)

Orlando Whitfield, “How to Catch an Art Thief,” Financial Times, 16 October 2025, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition) (online)

Penelope Jackson, “From Gold Toilet to Mona Lisa, Louvre Heist Adds to Art Theft History,” Business Standard, 21 October 2025, illustrated in color (in installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2016) (another edition) (online) 

Matteo Mammoli, “Interview with Maurizio Cattelan,” Lampoon Magazine, 21 October 2025 (text) (online)

Kelly Crow, “Artist Behind Duct-Taped Banana Has New Test for Art Market: A Gold Toilet,” The Wall Street Journal, 31 October 2025, illustrated in color (the present work) (online) 

George Nelson, “Royal Flush: Sotheby’s to Sell Maurizio Cattelan’s 18-Karat Gold Toilet in New York,” ARTnews, 31 October 2025, illustrated in color (the present work) (online) 

Zachary Small, “The Golden Toilet Returns as a Sotheby’s Headliner, for $10 Million,” The New York Times, 31 October 2025, illustrated in color (the present work) (online) 

Ben Cost, “Controversial Artist Who Duct-Taped a Banana to a Wall is Selling his $10M Solid Gold Toilet,” New York Post, 31 October 2025, illustrated in color (the present work) (online) 

Craig Simpson, “Twin of Stolen Blenheim Palace Gold Toilet Up for Sale,” The Telegraph, 31 October 2025, illustrated in color (in installation, Blenheim Palace, 2019) (another edition) (online)