Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, whose banana taped to a wall at the Art Basel Miami art fair sold for $120,000 in 2019, on Monday defeated a copyright infringement lawsuit by a fellow conceptual artist who claimed Cattelan plagiarized his work.
Joe Morford failed to show that Cattelan illegally copied his own 2000 art piece featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall, a Miami federal judgeCattelan's attorney Adam Cohen said they were very pleased with the decision. Morford, who represented himself in the case, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Other works by Cattelan include a fully functioning solid-gold toilet named "America" that was valued at $5 million before being stolen from Britain's Blenheim Palace in 2019. U.S. District Judge Robert Scola said Monday that there was insufficient evidence that Cattelan could have seen "Banana and Orange" before creating "Comedian." The judge also said Cattelan provided evidence that he created his work independently.
Differences, meanwhile, included "the banana used," "the angle at which it is placed," and "the exacting standards that Cattelan developed for Comedian's display," the judge said.
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