Jeff Koons convicted of plagiarism

U.S. artist Jeff Koons has been convicted of plagiarism. Giving the latest sentence on March 9, 2017, was the Paris Criminal Court.

Koons is allegedly guilty of copying in a sculpture he made in 1988 a photograph taken by Jean-François Bauret, a French photographer known for depictions of nudes.
The U.S. artist’s work in question is Naked, a sculpture that shows a child and a little girl naked side by side in the same pose as the two children featured in the French photographer’s shot; the only difference is the addition of a bouquet of flowers that the boy gives to the little girl in Koons’ work.

The Paris Criminal Court has therefore ordered Koons and the Centre Pompidou, guilty of helping to disseminate the work, to pay 20,000 euros to Bauret’s family, another 20,000 for legal fees and another 4,000 for disseminating the copied work on the Web.

Source: El Cultural - Le Monde

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Jeff Koons convicted of plagiarism

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