In 1964 Andy Warhol saw a photograph by Patricia Caulfield of hibiscus blossoms in an issue of Modern Photography. He acknowledged that he used this image to create his floral project. He was sued. He settled the claims out of court, and afterwards started asking for permission before incorporating works by others into his own creations.
Warhol was famous for appropriation - Campbell's Soup is the easiest to reference. Appropriation occurred on Warhol's own floral work. Sturtevant, "Warhol Flowers", 1964-71 was a series that looked like Warhol's original (which looked like Caulfield's original). However, he approved of Sturtevant's project and lent her one of his "Flowers" screens. It was collectors who seemed to not approve of this.
"Collectors shied away from purchasing the works (of Sturtevant). Gradually, however, the art world came around to understanding her conceptual reasons for copying canonical works: to skewer the grand modernist myths of creativity and the artist as lone genius. By focusing on Pop Art, itself a comment on mass production and the suspect nature of authenticity, Sturtevant was taking the genre to its full logical extension. Playful and subversive, somewhere between parody and homage, her efforts also echo the centuries-old tradition of young artists copying old masters." from 25 Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age HERE.
Here is the evolution of the images:
Today we have the picture of Gerry's car on the cover of the provinz magazine.
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