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Property from a Prestigious American Collection

Jeff Koons

Baroque Egg with Bow

Auction Closed

May 16, 01:17 AM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious American Collection

Jeff Koons

b. 1955 


Baroque Egg with Bow (Orange/Magenta)

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating

78 ⅜ by 76 ¾ by 76 in.

199 by 195 by 193 cm.

Executed in 1994-2008, this work is one of five uniquely colored variants.

Please note this lot will be available for collection from Dun-Rite following the auction and the successful purchaser will be responsible for collection, shipping, and release fees. Please contact Abbey.Flamm@sothebys.com with any questions.

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2009)

Christie's New York, 8 November 2011, lot 56 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Luxembourg

Acquired from the above in July 2014 by the present owner

Moscow, Gagosian Gallery, Red October Chocolate Factory, for what you are about to receive, September - October 2008, pp. 29, 232, illustrated in color, pp. 214, 219, illustrated in color (in installation) (Turquoise/Magenta variant)

Berlin, Neue National Gallery, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 2008 - February 2009, p. 50, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 81, illustrated in color (Turquoise/Magenta variant) 

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Baroque Egg with Bow, February 2012 - August 2014 (present variant) 

Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 2009, p. 404, illustrated in color (present variant) 

Ben Lewis, "Popeye the Eye-Popper," Evening Standard, 2 July 2009, p. 34 (text) 

Anthony Haden-Guest, "Takeover Moscow," Whitewall, Winter 2009, p. 49, illustrated in color (Turquoise/Magenta variant) 

Sana, "Symbols Tell the Story,” Vogue Japan, No. 125, January 2010, p. 22, illustrated in color (Turquoise/Magenta variant) 

Adriana Abascal, "Vestir Una Pasion," Vogue Mexico, No. 143, May 2011, p. 314, illustrated in color (Pink/Gold variant) 

"Jeff Koons," Central Plains Journal, May 2011, p. 10, illustrated in color (installed in Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2008) (Turquoise/Magenta variant) 

Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, "U.S. Giant Jeff Koons," Harper's Bazaar China, January 2012, p. 93, illustrated in color 

Jean-Pierre Frimbois and Marie-Pierre Nakamura, Art Actuel, January/February 2012, illustrated in color (on the cover) (present variant) 

Vinzenz Brinkmann, Jeff Koons: The Painter, Ostfildern 2012, pp. 85, 91 (text) (Turquoise/Magenta variant) 

Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art, Friedrichsdorf 2014, p. 115, illustrated in color (installed in Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2008) (Turquoise/Magenta variant) 

Exh. Cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, 2014, fig. 11, p. 149, illustrated in color (installed in Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2008)(New York); fig. 11, p. 157, illustrated in color (installed in Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2008) (Paris); fig. 11, p. 159, illustrated in color (installed in Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2008) (Bilbao) (Turquoise/Magenta variant) 

Else Bukdahl, The Recurrent Actuality of the Baroque, Controluce 2017, fig. 71, p. 184 (present variant) 

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Die Ausstellungen: Neue Nationalgalerie 1968-2015, 2018, p. 246, illustrated in color (installed in Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2008) (Turquoise/Magenta variant)