GENEVA - A seven-ton marble sculpture in the heart of Geneva depicting a naked couple kissing may have to go after a court dismissed its creator's appeal for the city to keep it as a present, a Swiss newspaper said yesterday.
Sculptor Vincent Kesselring erected "The Kiss" in 1995 on an embankment on the shores of Lake Geneva, among the world's most exclusive waterfronts, and presented it to the city.
But the municipal parliament decided to remove the sculpture, saying it was put up without permission and may create a precedent for other unauthorised sculptures. The French-language daily, Tribune de Geneve, said the federal court on Wednesday rejected Kesselring's appeal to reverse the parliament's decision.