Artist Jeff Koons is ending his year on a not-so-high note. According to Artnet, a man named Franck Davidovici is suing Koons because he says that the artist copied the 1985 print advertisement that he created for the French fashion brand Naf Naf. Koons' 1988 sculpture Fait d'Hiver features the head and torso of a porn star lying on the ground with a pig and penguin looking down at her. The print ad in question has many of the same elements, including the woman, the pig, the pose, and the same name.
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Koons' sculpture, which is from his "Banality" series, is a part of his retrospective currently showing at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. A French baliff reportedly went to the exhibition to photograph the work for Davidovici lawsuit, but Artnet says that Davidovici's lawyer "did not specify further as to the nature of the proposed legal action."
Koons has been accused of plagiarism three other times in the past concerning works from the same series, and he lost two of those cases despite his claims that the works were created under fair use.
[via Artnet]
