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Multimillion-dollar banana: French museum artwork 'Comedian', eaten twice before, is now stolen
A museum in eastern France has reported to police the theft of a banana that forms the core of a multi-million dollar artwork by Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan, officials said on Sunday. The missing fruit, which was taped to a wall as part of the provocative work titled "Comedian", was noticed by a guard on Saturday. The Pompidou-Metz museum, a branch of the famous Pompidou Centre in Paris, said in a statement that it had lodged a criminal complaint for theft against unknown persons.