Druet against Cattelan: the trial that panics the world of contemporary art

Friday, 10:15 a.m., at the opening of the hearing at the Paris court, the atmosphere is falsely relaxed.

At the last moment, the too small room on the fourth floor switches with the larger one on the second, as the art world and the media came in large numbers for the affair revealed by

, on May 1st.

We expect a duel at the top.

On the one hand, the president of the bar Pierre-Olivier Sur is the defender of the Galerie Perrotin and his company Turenne Éditions, in the lawsuit which opposes its star artist, the American of Italian origin Maurizio Cattelan, to the classical French sculptor Daniel Druet .

On the other, Me Jean-Baptiste Bourgeois is there to claim the rights of this octogenarian who modeled, in his workshop in Saint-Ouen, hundreds of wax figures for the Grévin Museum or illustrious personalities and eight for Cattelan , sometimes multiple copies.

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They are the subject of the conflict brought before the 3rd civil chamber of the court (specialized in disputes…

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