Jeff Koons

Acquired by the present owner directly from the artist in 1995

Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler, Banality, November 1988 (edition number unknown)
New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Banality, November - December 1988 (edition number unknown)
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum; Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 1992 - April 1993, p. 7, illustrated in color (Amsterdam), p. 43, illustrated in color (Aarhus) and cat. no. 43, p. 58, illustrated in color (Stuttgart) (edition number unknown)
London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Jeff Koons: A Survey 1981 - 1994, June - July 1994 (edition number unknown)
London, Institute of Contemporary Art, Belladona, January - April 1997 (edition number unknown)

Rene Block, "The Readymade Boomerang," Art is Easy, April 7, 1990, pp. 18-19 and pp. 422-423, illustrated (edition number unknown)
Anthony d'Offay, ed., The Jeff Koons Handbook, New York, 1992, p. 160 (listed)
Exh. Cat., San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (and travelling), Jeff Koons, 1992, cat. no. 49, pl. no. 41, illustrated in color (edition number unknown)
Angelika Muthesius (ed.), Jeff Koons, Cologne, 1992, pl.16, p. 113, illustrated in color and p. 121, illustrated in color (in Galerie Max Hetzler exhibition, 1988)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, September - November 1997, n.p., illustrated in color (edition number unknown)
Exh. Cat., Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection 1979 - 1999, 2000, p. 7, illustrated in color (another example)
Jeffrey Deitch, ed., Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, 2004, p. 211, illustrated in color and p. 425, illustrated in color (another example) 
"Sales Preview," Art + Auction, November 2005, p. 212, illustrated in color (edition 1/3)
Hans Werner Holzwarth ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 2007, p. 300, illustrated in color (edition number unknown)
Leslie Camhi, "The Seer - Ileana Sonnabend," New York Times Style Magazine, December 2, 2007, p. 209 illustrated in color (edition number unknown)
Robert Pincus-Witten, "Passages: The Eyes Had It," ArtForum, January 2008, p. 70, illustrated in color (1988 Sonnabend exhibition shot) (edition number unknown)

This work is in very good condition overall. The medium is water-based gilding over a clay-based, gesso-like underlayer. With water-based gilding, there will naturally be some minor and faint inconsistencies in the application of the gilding in areas such as the deep crevices of the design. In some of these places, the reddish clay-based underlayer is slightly visible. There have been some minor restorations to loss in the gilding and underlayer located as follows: ---two losses on the interior lips of the flower located on the far left as illustrated in the catalogue --a 1 ½ inch retouch along the bottom edge of the scroll design on the lower right of the bottom edge.
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