Danish artist seeks to stop his work being cut up to make watches

Faroese art provocateurs want to use canvas of Tal R's Paris Chic as raw material

A court in Denmark will rule on Monday on whether to prohibit a pair of Faroese art provocateurs from destroying a painting by the Danish artist Tal R and using pieces of the canvas as decorative faces for a line of luxury wristwatches.

Dann Thorleifsson and Arne Leivsgard, who five years ago founded the Kanske watch brand, bought Paris Chic, one of Tal R's brightly coloured Sexshops series, for 70,000 at the Victoria Miro gallery in London in August.