Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Jeff Koons
Donkey (Yellow)
Auction Closed
November 19, 09:47 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jeff Koons
b. 1955
Donkey (Yellow)
signed and dated 1999 (on the reverse)
crystal glass, mirrored glass, carbon fiber, foam, colored plastic inter-layer, stainless steel
76¾ by 59¼in.
194.9 by 150.5 cm.
Executed in 1999, this work is number 1 of 4 unique versions.
Sotheby's London, 1 in 11 Auction, 12 February 2015, lot 9
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Roberta Smith, “Review: Jeff Koons – ‘Easyfun’,” The New York Times, 17 December 1999, p. 47
Hans Werner Holzwarth, Ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2009, pp. 436 and 450, illustrated in color (another version illustrated)
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; (and traveling), Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, 2014-2015, p. 161, illustrated in color (another version illustrated)
Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons, Cologne, 2015, p. 67, illustrated in color (another version illustrated)
Francesco Bonami, Ill Mondo Secondo Jeff, Rome, 2015, pp. 112-118, illustrated in color (cover)