Jeff Koons

Marianne Boesky, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1998

Jerry Saltz, Roberta Smith and Peter Halley, Beyond Boundaries: New York's New Art, New York 1986, p. 6, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Exhibition Catalogue, London, Saatchi Gallery, NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, 1987, pp. 136-137, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Exhibition Catalogue, Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: Works 1979 - 1988, 1988, no. 19, pp. 30-31, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Exhibition Catalogue, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, 1990, no. 32, p. 395, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Jeff Koons and Robert Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook, London 1992, pp. 66-67, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Angelika Muthesius, Ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 1992, fig. 3, p. 72, illustration of another example, fig. 1, pp. 68-69, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train , and p. 70, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, 1992, no. 28, pl. 24, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Exibition Catalogue, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and travelling, Jeff Koons - Retrospective, 1992-93, pp. 52-53 (Amsterdam and Stuttgart), and no. 13, pl. 30, pp. 42-43 (Aarhus), illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Exhibition Catalogue, Athens, Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, A Millenium Celebration, 1999, pp. 26-27, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons: Easyfun - Ethereal, New York 2000, p. 34, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Exhibition Catalogue, Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection, 2001, p. 224, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Dean Sobel, Warhol Koons Hirst: Cult and Culture, Aspen 2001, p. 35, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002, New York 2002, pl. IV, p. 21, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Exhibition Catalogue, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, 2003, pp. 44-45 and p. 51, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Exhibition Catalogue, Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons Retrospective, 2004, pp. 44-45, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Exhibition Catalogue, New York, C&M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, 2004, pl. 15, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons (Supercontemporanea series), Milan 2006, pp. 44-45, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Exhibition Catalogue, Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, 2008, pp. 48-49, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train
Exhibition Catalogue, Versailles, Château de Versailles, Jeff Koons, 2008, pp. 81-82, 156 and 166, illustration of another example in colour as part of Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train

The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the illustration fails to convey fully the three dimensional nature of the sculpture and the reflective quality of the highly polished stainless steel. This work is in very good condition.
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"I was walking down Fifth Avenue and I saw in a liquor store this train that was made out of plastic and porcelain. It was a Jim Beam train. What caught my interest was the possibility to transform it and to cast it in stainless steel and bring it to a mirror finish, but to also maintain the soul of the piece, which was the liquor inside. So after the train was cast, it was sent back to Jim Beam where they refilled each car with a fifth of Bourbon, and the tax-stamp seal was put on. You can drink it and enjoy the bourbon, but you have killed the work of art because you've destroyed the soul of the piece when you break the tax-stamp seal."

The artist in Exhibition Catalogue, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and travelling, Jeff Koons, 1992, n.p.