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Carlos Luis de Ribera

Mary Magdalene in Meditation, c.1623

Update (December 17, 2024): Disney Store has now removed the canvas from sale, and the artist has deleted her Facebook and Instagram posts displaying her art-copying canvas.

Original post: I recently found an art canvas being sold on Disney Store that plagiarizes a nearly two-decade old piece of fan art by artist Ribera, who was the best-known Lilo & Stitch fan artist back in the franchise's heyday.

The canvas piece is titled The Art of Being Friends and was made by Denyse Klette. It shows the human-alien duo in an art museum looking at a painting of themselves on a beach. The artwork is being sold on Disney Store as of this writing.

However, the artwork in the painting within the painting is a modified copy of Friends Forever by Ribera, which was originally published on February 25, 2005.

The similarities are uncanny; the poses are the same and the relative art style is very similar with only some slight modifications. Various details in the background and foreground have been added, changed, or removed to try to hide the fact that the canvas piece isn't original.

Monasterio de Rueda, Sástago, Ribera Baja del Ebro

Papa Superstar

by Ribera