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For $150K we hope that tasted good (VIDEO)

That was one expensive banana. We hope it tasted good.

The infamous $150,000 banana duct-taped to a wall has disappeared again -- this time because it was becoming an unsafe distraction.

“We sincerely apologize to all the visitors of the fair who today will not be able to participate in Comedian,” Galerie Perrotin, where the work was being showcased, said in a statement Sunday, the last day of the exhibition.

The Comedian is the name of the work by the Italian artist provocateur Maurizio Cattelan, composed of a ripe-ish banana, duct tape and a 14-page manual for its installation and upkeep.

If art is a living thing, then the piece evolved Saturday when another artist provocateur named David Datuna unpeeled tape and skin and ate the banana.

“Art performance,” he said. He was a “hungry artist,” adding that it was “delicious.”

Fir that amount of money, it better have been good.

Check it out below.


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