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Milan court upholds authenticity finding on Jeff Koons’s Serpents sculpture

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Milan court upholds authenticity finding on Jeff Koons’s Serpents sculpture
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A Milan court upheld a finding that a porcelain Serpents acquired at a lost-property auction was an authorised Jeff Koons work. Koons had maintained that it was a defective prototype and appealed the decision. Photo shows a Serpents sculpture, courtesy of Christie’s.

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