A visitor to the Metz-Pompidou bit into a Maurizio Catellan's banana, worth millions of euros, taped to a wall last Saturday.
Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan – whose work entitled Comedian was bought at auction in New York last year – said he was disappointed the person did not also eat the skin and the tape.
After the visitor struck on Saturday last week, "security staff rapidly and calmly intervened," the Pompidou-Metz museum in eastern France said.
The work was "reinstalled within minutes", it added.
Cattelan noted the banana-eater had "confused the fruit for the work of art".
Main Image: Maurizio Catellan, Comedian