Jeff Koons

This lot has been withdrawn from the sale.

Sonnabend Gallery, New York 

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2003)

Phillips, New York, 16 November 2017, lot 41 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye, November – December 2003, n.p., illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

New York, Lever House Art Collection, Jeff Koons, December 2004 – April 2006, n.p., illustrated in colour (illustration of another example) 

Bregenz, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Re-Object: Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Merz, Vol I, February – May 2007, n.p., illustrated in colour (installation view); p. 126, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May – September 2008, p. 100, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July – September 2009, p. 28, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

Jerry Saltz, “Breathing Lessons,” Artnet Magazine, 16 December 2003, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example) (online)

Jonathan Heaf, "Blow Up," Pop Magazine, Spring/Summer 2004, no. 8, p. 323, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

Cheryl Kaplan, "Jeff Koons: Interview," Deutsche Bank Art Mag, 2005, n.p., illustrated (illustration of another example)

Uta Grosenick, ed., ART NOW Vol 2, Cologne 2005, no. 5, p. 239, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

Giancarlo Politi, “Jeff Koons: an Interview by the Readers of Flash Art,” Flash Art, vol. 38, no. 240, January - February 2005, p. 89, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example) 

Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2008, p. 549, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example); p. 551, illustrated in colour (another example installed in New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye, 2003)

Irene de Waal, "Studio Jeff Koons, beeldend kunstenaar, New York," Hollands Diep, n.p., illustrated in colour (illustration of work in progress)

Raphael Morata, "Jeff Koons: un Artiste Barock," Point de Vue, 28 August – 3 September 2008, p. 59, illustrated

Anon., “Jeff Koons: Mickey-l'Ange Contemporain,” Paris Match, 3 September 2008, p. 81, illustrated

Graham Bader, “Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,” Artforum, September 2008, pp. 450-451, illustrated in colour (p. 450, another example installed in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, 2008; p. 451, illustration of another example)

Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2009, p. 535, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example); p. 537, illustrated in colour (another example installed in New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye, 2003)

Michael Glover, “Jeff Koons: King of comic relief,” The Independent, 30 June 2009, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example) (online)

Jonathan Jones, "Not just the king of kitsch," The Guardian, 30 June 2009, p. 5, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example) (online)

Jessica Holland, "Get animated about Koons' work," The London Paper, 30 June 2009, n.p., illustrated in colour (illustration of another example) 

Anon., “Jeff Koons: Popeye brought to life,” The Evening Standard, 1 July 2009, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example) (online)

Carol Vogel, “Koons and a Sailor Man in London,” The New York Times, 2 July 2009, illustrated (illustration of another example) (online)

Richard Dorment, "Jeff Koons: Popeye Series at the Serpentine Gallery, review," The Telegraph, 6 July 2009, p. 25, illustrated in colour (another example installed in London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, 2009)

Chris Maume, “Jeff Koons’s Popeye series is fabulously exuberant. Rothko it ain’t,” The Independent, 13 July 2009, illustrated (illustration of another example) (online)

Paul Levy, “The Bearable Lightness of Being Jeff Koons,” The Wall Street Journal, 31 July 2009, n.p., illustrated

Colm Toibin, "Plastic Fantastic," Esquire, August 2009, p. 69, illustrated (illustration of another example)

Anon., The New York Times Style Magazine, August 2009, illustrated in colour on the cover; p. 80 (text)

Anon., World of Interiors, August 2009, p. 144, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

Adam Lindemann, Collecting Contemporary Art, Cologne 2010, p. 164 (text)

Par Mikael Zikos, "De A à Z...," IDEAT, March-April 2010, p. 157, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal, London 2014, p. 169 (text); p. 171, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and travelling), Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, 2014, no. 109, p. 176, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective, 2014, p. 184, text

Michael Polsinelli and Sasha Burkhanova, “The Words,” Garage Magazine, Fall/Winter 2014, p. 94, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2015, p. 75, illustrated in colour (illustration of another example)

Michael Amy, "Jeff Koons: A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing Clothes," Sculpture, vol. 34, no. 2, March 2015, p. 56 (text)

Iker Seisdedos, "Factoria Koons," El País Semanal, 24 May 2015, p. 36 (text)

Iker Seisdedos, "Retrato de Jeff Koons, el artista más cotizado del mundo," El País Semanal, 27 May 2015, online (text)