Jeff Koons

The artist

Benedikt Taschen, Cologne (acquired from the above in 1993)

Christie's New York, 13 May 2015, lot 58B (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Group Show: Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, October - November 1986 (another example)

Paris, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Cartes Blanches, Les Courtiers du Desir, April - May 1987, pl. 28, p. 32 (text) and p. 33, illustrated (another example)

Milwaukee Art Museum, Simulations, New American Conceptualism, November 1987 - January 1988, no. 6, illustrated in color (on the back cover) and n.p., illustrated in color (edition 2/3)

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: Works 1979 - 1988, July - August 1988, no. 20, p. 3, illustrated in color and pp. 9, 39 (text) (edition 2/3)

Dayton, Wright State University, University Art Galleries and Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Redefining the Object, May - June 1988, p. 7, illustrated (edition 3/3)

Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art and Museum of Fine Arts; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Kunsthalle Bremen; and Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, The BiNational: German Art of the Late '80s, American Art of the Late '80s, September 1988 - June 1989, no. 41, p. 127, illustratedin color and p. 249 (text) (edition 2/3)

Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, February - May 1988, p. 22 (text)

The Art Institute of Chicago, Affinities and Intuitions: The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art, May - July 1990, pl. 179, no. 75, pp. 223, 291, illustrated in color (edition 2/3)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, December 1992 - October 1993, no. 32, pp. 33, 132 (text) and p. 82, illustrated in color (edition 2/3)

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Aarhus Kunstmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Jeff Koons: Retrospektiv, November 1992 - April 1993, p. 51, illustrated in color and p. 90 (text) (edition 1/3)

Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Going for Baroque, September 1995 - February 1996 (edition 3/3)

Athens School of Fine Arts; Copenhagen, Everything That's Interesting is New: the Dakis Joannou Collection, January - April 1996, p. 154, illustrated in color and p. 293, illustrated (in installation) (edition 1/3)

Santa Monica, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Group Show, December 1997 - July 1999 (edition 2/3)

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, House of Sculpture, May - August 1999 (edition 3/3)

Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration, December 1999 - May 2000, pp. 8, 46 (text) and p. 90, illustrated in color (edition 1/3)

Cyprus, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Forever: Shortcuts: Works fromThe Dakis Joannou Collection, November 2001 - March 2002, pp. 70-71 (text) and p. 76, illustrated in color (in installation) (edition 1/3)

Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, June - September 2003, p. 54 (text) and p. 55, illustrated in color (edition 1/3)

Dallas Museum of Art, Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Art from Dallas Collections, September 2003 - March 2004 (edition 3/3)

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Collection Taschen, October 2004 - January 2005, p. 123, illustrated (the present example)

Athens, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection, June - December 2004, p. 206, illustrated in color (edition 1/3)

Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, Variable States: Three Masterworks of Modern Sculpture, September 2004 - January 2005, p. 206, illustrated in color (edition 3/3)

Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim, Douglas Gordon's The Vanity of Allegory, July - October 2005, n.p., illustrated in color

Durham, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Evolution of the Nasher Collection, October 2005 - May 2006 (edition 3/3)

St. Louis, The Pulitzer Foundation of Arts, Portrait/Homage/Embodiment, November 2006 - June 2007 (edition 1/3)

Los Angeles, Country Museum of Art, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Inaugural Installation, 2008 (edition 2/3)

Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, In Pursuit of Masters: Stories from the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, September 2008 - January 2009 (edition 3/3)

Chateau de Versailles, Jeff Koons: Versailles, October 2008 - April 2009, pp. 53-55, illustrated in color (in installation), pp. 116, 185 (text) and p. 144, illustrated in color (edition 1/3)

London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, September 2011 - January 2012 (edition 3/3)

Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, June - September 2012, p. 144, illustrated in color and pp. 144, 190 (text) (edition 1/3)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol Museum, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, September 2012 - April 2013, no. 95, pp. 63, 196-97, 290 (text) and p. 68, illustrated in color (edition 3/3)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne and Guggenheim Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 2014 - September 2015, pl. 46, p. 21 (text), n.p., illustrated in color and fig. 10, p. 97 (installed in Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol Museum, 2013) (edition 3/3)

Geneva, The Museum of Art and History of the city of Geneva, Urs Fischer-False Friends, April - July 2016 (edition 1/3)

New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Summer 2018, June - August 2018 (the present example)

Dallas, The Warehouse, The Sensation of Space, May - November 2019, p. 4 (text) and p. 6, illustrated in color (another example)

New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Highlights of Post-War and Contemporary Art, March - April 2021 (the present example)

New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Highlights of Post-War and Contemporary Art, June - August 2021 (the present example)

Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Jeff Koons: Shine, October 2021 - January 2022, no. 8, pp. 83, 84, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 187, illustrated in color (edition 1/3)

Roberta Smith, "Art: 4 Young East Villagers at Sonnabend Gallery," The New York Times, 24 October 1986, p. C30 (text)

Jeff Koons, "A Text by Jeff Koons," Spazio Umano, No. 4, October - December 1986, p. 109, illustrated

Robert Kleyn, "Neuva Concetti," Tema Celeste, January/March 1987, p. 80

Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons," Flash Art, January/February 1987, p. 44, illustrated in color

Giancarlo Politi, "Luxury and Desire. An Interview with Jeff Koons," Flash Art, No. 132, February/March 1987, p. 74, illustrated in color

Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Radical Consumption and the New Poverty," New Observations, No. 51, October 1987, p. 15 (text)

Allan Schwartzman, "Corporate Culture: The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc., December 1987, p. 141 (text)

Exh. Cat., Milan, The Saatchi Collection, NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, 1987, p. 11 (text)

Georg Herold, Jeff Koons and Isabelle Graw, "Atlantisches Bündnis," Wolkenkratzer, January 1988, n.p. (text)

Dirk Schwarze, "Schlaf der Vernunft," Kunstforum, No. 94, April/May 1988, p. 249, illustrated (installed in Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, 1988)

Roberta Smith, "Rituals of Consumption," Art in America, Vol. 76, No. 5, May 1988, illustrated in color (on the cover) and p. 170 (text)

"Schamlos schön," Der Spiegel, No. 12, March 1988, p. 231, illustrated in color

Suzi Gablik, "Dancing with Baudrillard," Art in America, Vol. 6, June 1988, p. 29 (text)

Laurie Palmer, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago," Artforum, Vol. 27, No. 2, October 1988, p. 153 (text)

Exh. Cat., Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie International - 1988, 1988, p. 90 (text)

Klaus Honnef, ed., Contemporary Art, Hamburg, 1988, p. 27, illustrated in color

Peter Plagens, "International Shows: Under Western Eyes," Art in America, Vol. 77, No. 1, January 1989, p. 36 (text)

Thomas Dreher, "Jeff Koons: Objekt-Bilder," Artefactum, January - February 1989, pp. 7-8 (text)

Henry Hanson, "Art Works: Highbrow, High-Priced Tchotchkes," Chicago, February 1989, p. 23 (text)

Judith Russi Krishner and Fernando de Azevedo, ed., Encontros Luso-Americanos de Arte Contemporanea/Portuguese-American Meetings on Contemporary Art: Contemporary American Sculpture, Signs of Life, Lisbon 1989, p. 55, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, Image World, Art and Media Culture, 1989-90, p. 153, illustrated in color

Jane Greenstein, "Double Vision: Two Court Battles Decide When Appropriation is Inappropriate," Art & Antiques, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 1990, p. 23 (text)

William Wilson, "A Sculpture Show That Runs on Empty," Los Angeles Times, 10 April 1990, p. F-6 (text)

"Artifacts. Brief Art World Updates," Art Cellar Exchange, May 1990, p. 11 (text)

Michael Tarantino, “Gone Soft?: The 44th Venice Biennale," Artforum, Vol. 29, No. 1, September 1990, p. 137 (text)

Exh. Cat., Newport Harbor Art Museum, OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, 1990, p. 83, illustrated in color and p. 173 (text)

Exh. Cat., Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Life-Size: A Sense, 1990, pp. 128-29 (text)

Exh. Cat., Indianapolis, Indiana University, Power: Its Myths and Mores In American Art, 1961 - 1991, 1991, p. 87, illustrated in color

"Fräls oss i vår banalitet" Konstnären, March 1991, p. 6, illustrated in color

Jörg-Uwe Albig, "Jeff Koons, ein Prophet der inneren Leere," Art, December 1992, p. 56, illustrated in color

Angelika Muthesius, Jeff Koons, Cologne 1992, no. 8, p. 91, illustrated in color and p. 167 (text)

Robert Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook, London 1992, pp. 20, 76, 158 (text) and p. 77, illustrated in color

Jeff Koons, "Baby & Eimer Cover Story," Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, No. 46, 13 November 1992, p. 34 (text)

Anton Beeke, "Jeff Koons," Stedelijk Bulletin, November 1992, p. 76, illustrated

Hildegund Amanshauser, "Pornographic Scenes of Normal Married Life," Camera Austria, Vol. 39, 1992, p. 36 (text)

Pamela Haskin, "The Real Cliche," The New Art Examiner, December 1993, p. 19, illustrated

Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal, eds., American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993, Munich 1993, p. 457 (text)

Frank Hettig, "Jeff Koons," Kunstforum International, Vol. 121, 1993, p. 109, illustrated

"Dakis Joannou: Can Art Reconstruct Paradise?" The Art Magazine, February 1994, p. 38, illustrated in color

Zoran L. Bozovic, Razgovori O Likovnoj Umetnosti II, Belgrade 1994, pp. 62, 64 (text) and p. 65, illustrated in color

Lisa G. Corrin and Joaneath Spicer, eds., Going for Baroque: 18 Contemporary Artists Fascinated with the Baroque and the Rococo, Baltimore 1995, p. 48, illustrated in color

Paul Richard, "'Going for Baroque' & Coming Up Short," The Washington Post, 1 October 1995, pp. G1, G4, illustrated)

Bruce Ferguson, "Everything that's interesting is new," Flash Art, March/April 1996, p. 109, illustrated in color (in installation)

Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection, 1996, pp. 308, 332 (text) and p. 309, illustrated in color

Linda Weintraub, Arthur Danto, and Thomas McEvilley, Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970s-1990s, Litchfield 1996, p. 203 (text)

Rainald Goetz, Jeff Koons, Schaupielhaus Programmhefte, Berlin 1999, p. 39, illustrated in color

Robert Rosenblum, On Modern American Art: Selected Essays, New York 1999, p. 334 (text)

Alison M. Gingeras, "Easyfun: Superfici Opache," Flash Art International, No. 240, April - May 2000, p. 79 (text)

Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, No. 487, March 2001, p. 271 (text)

Laura Tansini, "Mai dire Kitsch...Sedurre con le immagini," ARS, No. 45, September 2001, p. 87 (text)

Steven A. Nash, ed., Nasher Sculpture Center Handbook, Dallas 2003, pl. 46, p. 181, illustrated in color

Thomas Crow, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad, 2001, pp. 28, 199 (text)

Kirk Varnedoe, “Jeff Koons’s Rabbit,” Artforum, Vol. 41, No. 8, April 2003, p. 90 (text)

Telma Miguel, "Oh Senhor Taschen," Taschen, Fall 2003, pp. 9, 49, illustrated in color (installed in Taschen residence), p. 32, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 146, illustrated in color

"Top Art Publisher: Benedikt Taschen," Brutus, 15 June 2004, p. 87, illustrated in color

Jessica Kerwin, "The Golden Greek", W Magazine, October 2004, p. 364, illustrated in color

Wendy E. Solomon, "Koons: the artist matures," York Sunday News, 10 December 2005, pp. A1, A12 (text)

Isabelle de Wavrin, "Les Bonnes Pioches de Dakis Joannou," Beaux Arts, 2005, pp. 70-71, illustrated in color (in installation)

Mia Fineman, "My Big Fat Post Modern Wedding," The New York Times Magazine, 8 January 2006, p. 74, illustrated in color

Paola Dezza, "Guarda Come Volano," Ventiquattro, 7 March 2006, p. 124 (text)

David Bonetti, "Promising Portrait Show will open at Pulitzer St.," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2 November 2006, illustrated (on the cover) and p. 8 (text)

David Bonetti, "Face Painting: An Exhibit at the Pulitzer Foundation Looks at the Art of Portraiture," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 26 November 2006, pp. F1, F5, illustrated in color

Calvin Tomkins, "The Turnaround Artist," The New Yorker, 23 April 2007, p. 64 (text)

“Pairs - Die Paare: Jeff Koons/Yan Pei-Ming/Emil Nolde,” Die Welt, Spring 2007, p. 2 (text)

Ariane Grigotert, Affinities: Deutsche Guggenheim 1.9.97-2007, Frankfurt 2007, pp. 64-65, 109, 209, 237 (text)

John Stourton, Great Collectors of our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945, London 2007, p. 405 (text)

Hans Werner Holzwarth ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2007, p. 217, illustrated in color and p. 600 (text)

"Jeff Koons at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago," artdaily.org, 18 March 2008 (text) (online)

"King Koons," Elle, August 2008 (text)

Judith Benhamou-Huet, "Exposition: Le roi du kitsch trone a Versailles," Le Point, 4 September 2008, p. 84, illustrated in color

Laetitia Cenac, "Le Roi Koons a Versailles," Madame Figaro, 6 September 2008, p. 142, illustrated in color

Jean-Max Colard and Judicael Lavrador, "L'impromptu de Versailles," Les Inrockuptibles, No. 668, 16 September 2008, p. 77 (text)

Jennifer Vogelson, “How is That Art?” York Daily Record, 19 September 2008, p. 5A (text)

Angela Doland, "Koons zany sculptures on display at Versailles," Associated Press, September 2008, (text) (online)

Laurence Dreyfus, "En Grande Pompe," Le Magazine de l'optimum, No. 6, September 2008, p. 113 (text)

Laurent Le Bon and Emanuelle Lequeux, "Jeff Koons: Versailles," Beaux Arts éditions, September 2008, p. 27 (text)

Hans Werner Holzwarth ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2009, p. 215, illustrated in color and pp. 224, 228-29, 234 (text)

David Colman, "Jeff Koons," Interview, December/January 2009, p. 120 (text)

Exh. Cat., Sydney, John Kaldor, 40 Years Kaldor Public Art Projects, 2009, p. 166 (text)

Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, 2009, p. 12 (text)

Laurence Mouillefarine, “Jeff Koons un roi a New York,” Madame Figaro, November 2010, p. 158 (text)

William Jeffett, Dali Doubled: From Surrealism to the Self, A New Critical View of Dali, St. Petersburg 2010, p. 302, illustrated in color

Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple: Jeff Koons," 20/27, No. 5, 2011, p. 136, illustrated in color

Bill Powers, Interviews with Artists, New York 2013, p. 278 (text)

Scott Indrisek, "All Aboard That 'Great Koonsian Adventure'," Artinfo, 26 June 2014 (text) (online)

Peter Schjeldahl, "Selling Points," The New Yorker, July 2014, p. 93 (text)

Michael Polsinelli and Sasha Burkhanova, “The Words,” Garage Magazine, No. 7, Fall/Winter 2014, p. 91, illustrated in color

Jed Perl, "The Cult of Jeff Koons," The New Yorker, 25 September 2014 (text) (online)

Rachel Harrison, "Thanks for the Memories," Artforum, Vol. 53, No. 1, September 2014, p. 317 (text)

Thomas Crow, "American Idol,” Artforum, Vol. 53, No. 1, September 2014, p. 314 (text)

Myriam Boutoulle, "Jeff Koons, a star in Paris," Connaissance des Arts, December 2014, p. 72 (text)

Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal, London 2014, p. 129, illustrated in color and pp. 125, 128, 201 (text)

Julie Champion and Caroline Edde, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Album of the Exhibition, Paris 2014, p. 20, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons: New Paintings and Sculpture, 2014, p. 11 (text)

Sylvia Edwards Davis, "Reviewed: Jeff Koons at the Centre Pompidou, Paris," France Today, 28 January 2015, illustrated in color (online)

Linda Yablonsky, "A Christie's Auction Brings Together the Art, and History, of Jeff Koons and Martin Kippenberger," The New York Times Style Magazine, 21 April 2015, illustrated in color (online)

Exh. Cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, 2014, p. 94, illustrated in color

Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons, Cologne 2015, p. 38, illustrated in color (installed in Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, 1988) and p. 39, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Athens, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Urs Fischer: False Friends, 2016, p. 35, illustrated in color

Agnes Berecz, 100 Years, 100 Artworks: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art, Munich 2019, p. 156 (text)

Lietta Joannou and Dakis Joannou, An Album: Lietta & Dakis Joannou, Home Installations 1998-2019, Athens 2019, pp. 74, 75, 76, 101, 102, 103, 108, 109, 131, 133, 157, illustrated in color (installed in Joannou residence)

Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words, Athens 2019, pp. 58, 122 (text) and p. 59, illustrated in color

David Hopkins, DARK TOYS, New Haven 2021, p. 152 (text)

Exh. Cat., Katara, Qatar Museum Gallery, Jeff Koons. Lost in America, 2021, p. 70, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Marsaille, Pinault Collection, Jeff Koons: Mucem. Works from the Pinault Collection, 2021, p. 97 (text) and p. 177, illustrated in color

Julie Poole, "'We apologize for the inconvenience': The unsightliness of labor at the Blanton's 'Day Jobs'," Scalawag Magazine, 11 May 2023 (text)

Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, (dirs.) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 2 June 2023, illustrated in color (animated) (film)

Max Lakin, "When Spider-Man Met Jeff Koons," The New York Times, 13 July 2023, p. C11 (text)

Helene Gheysens and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov eds., Amis: 120 Years with the Museé National d'Art Moderne, Paris 2023, pp. 132-33, illustrated (installed in Paris, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, 1987)

Exh. Cat., Hong Kong, Art Intelligence Global, Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, 2024, p. 15 (text)