For 25 years, Jeff Koons has been locked in a legal battle with an Italian man over a sculpture he insists he didn’t create:
In 1991, an Italian collector purchased a cartoonish sculpture of a snake for a few hundred dollars at a property auction in Milan. It turned out to be the work of Jeff Koons.
Now, nearly 25 years and several additional legal battles later, the collector just scored a significant victory in an Italian court, where a judge ruled that the sculpture was indeed an “authorized authentic artwork” by Koons, ordering the artist to pay damages to the owner. But Koons is again fighting back.
That same year, Koons appealed the ruling, trying to overturn the decision. The collector also appealed, trying to secure damages.The most recent ruling came in the Milan Court of Appeals. This time, the collector got what he wanted, and Koons was ordered to pay damages in an amount that would be decided upon in a subsequent trial.
But the battle isn’t over: two months after the most recent ruling, Koons once again appealed. Now the case will be taken up by the Supreme Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest court of appeal.Koons’s studio did not respond to Artnet News’s request for comment.was made in an edition of three in the late 1980s for Koons’s “Banality” series.was first shown in 1988 at Galerie Max Hetzler in Cologne, but whether that artwork is the exact piece owned now by the collector remains the subject of debate.
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