
Property from a Prestigious American Collection
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.
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)
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