Plagiaires, faussaires & arnaqueurs dans l'art
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[2010] The Art Damien Hirst Stole
by Charles Thomson, co-founder of the Stuckists art group In 1995, Damien Hirst defended his work with the rationale, "It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it.Damien Hirst faces eight new claims of plagiarism | Art and design | The Guardian
A detail from Damien Hirst's In the Name of the Father which is claimed to be based on John LeKay's earlier This is My Body, This Is My Blood.
Is Damien Hirst a Serial Plagiarist? - ARTINFO.com
Forming the core of the article, Thomson highlights the oft-touted similarities between works by Hirst and those by his fellow artist and longtime acquaintance John LeKay , which predate them. Many of their pieces do bear an uncanny resemblance, such as LeKay’s 1993 skullscovered in crystals (titled "Spiritus Callidus," one moniker for the devil) and Hirst’s 2007 "For the Love of God," a skull covered in diamonds. (Though, of course, embellishing skulls with precious materials is an ancient practice predating both men by centuries .)
Every few weeks, photographs of old paintings arrive at Martin Kemp’s eighteenth-century house, outside Oxford, England. Many of the art works are so decayed that their once luminous colors have become washed out, their shiny coats of varnish darkened by grime and riddled with spidery cracks. Kemp scrutinizes each image with a magnifying glass, attempting to determine whether the owners have discovered what they claim to have found: a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. Kemp, a leading scholar of Leonardo, also authenticates works of art—a rare, mysterious, and often bitterly contested skill.
Peter Paul Biro, fingerprints, and a lost Leonardo : The New Yor
Le faussaire au faux air de génie
Alors que nous sommes toujours sans nouvelles des petits Henri, Georges, Amedeo et Fernand , disparus un matin à Paris, découpés au couteau, le procès d’une douzaine de faussaires s’est ouvert cette semaine à Créteil, et s’achèvera demain, vendredi.