Lot 25
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JEFF KOONS | Girl with Lobster

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
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Description

  • Jeff Koons
  • Girl with Lobster
  • signed, dated 1 14 and numbered 27/40
  • archival pigmented inkjet with silkscreen on hot pressed natural paper
  • Sheet: 54 1/4 by 45 in. 138 by 114.3 cm.
  • Framed: 57 by 48 by 2 in. 144.8 by 121.9 by 5 cm.
  • Executed in 2014, this work is number 27 from an edition of 40, plus 10 artist's proofs.

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The vertical edges of the sheet are deckled and the sheet is hinged verso to the mat intermittently. The sheet is slightly undulated due to the way in which it was hinged. This work was not examined unframed. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

Jeff Koons directed and shot a seven-image portfolio of the actress Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page for The New York Times in the March 12, 2006 issue. Referencing this portfolio, Girl with Lobster, 2014, is a limited-edition print by Jeff Koons that features Gretchen Mol, the star of The Notorious Bettie Page, aside his iconic lobster inflatable with a reflective silver line drawing in the foreground that for the artist references fertility, Mother Nature, and the painting The Origin of the World by Gustave Courbet.