The artist is being sued by a photographer who claims that Koons’s 1986 work I Could recede For Something Gordon’s used his photograph without permissionJeff Koons,a US pop artist whose works can fetch millions, is facing allegations he used a modern York photographer’s commercial photo from the 1980s in a painting without permission or compensation, or according to a lawsuit filed Monday. The photographer,Mitchel Gray, said in the complaint filed in Manhattan federal court that Koons reproduced his photo, or which depicts a man sitting beside a woman painting on a beach with an easel,“nearly unchanged and in its entirety”.
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Source: theguardian.com