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JEFF KOONS (B. 1955)

Lot 33
07.11.2023 19:00UTC -05:00
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$ 3 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1059118
Lot 33 | JEFF KOONS (B. 1955)
Estimate value
$ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
JEFF KOONS (B. 1955)

Baroque Egg with Bow (Pink/Gold)

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating

78 3⁄8 x 76 13⁄16 x 76 in. (199 x 195 x 193 cm.)

Executed in 1994-2008. This work is one of five unique versions (Turquoise/Magenta, Blue/Turquoise, Blue/Gold, Orange/Magenta, Pink/Gold).





Provenance

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

H. W. Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 2008, p. 416 (Orange/Magenta version illustrated).

A. Haden-Guest, "Takeover Moscow," Whitewall, Winter 2009, p. 49 (Turquoise/Magenta version illustrated).

B. Lewis, "Popeye the Eye-Popper," Evening Standard, 2 July 2009, p. 34.

Sana, "Symbols Tell the Story,” Vogue Japan, no. 125, January 2010, p. 22 (Turquoise/Magenta version illustrated).

A. Abascal, "Vestir Una Pasion," Vogue Mexico, May 2011, p. 314 (Pink/Gold version illustrated).

"Jeff Koons," Central Plains Journal, May 2011, p. 10 (Turquoise/Magenta version illustrated).

M. Hollein, S. Rothkopf, J. Pissarro, M. Ulrich, and J. Fraiman, eds., Jeff Koons: The Painter and The Sculptor, Ostfildern, 2012, pp. 85 and 91 (Turquoise/Magenta version illustrated).

J. Frimbois and M. Nakamura, Art Actuel, January/February 2012, (Orange/Magenta version illustrated on the cover).

U. Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art, Friedrichsdorf, 2014, p. 115 (Turquoise/Magenta version illustrated).

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, exh. cat., New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art; Paris, Centre Pompidou and Guggenheim Bilbao, 2014-2015, fig. 11, p. 149 (Turquoise/Magenta version illustrated).

"Gagosian Gallery Exhibitions," Gagosian Quarterly, November-January 2015, (Orange/Magenta version illustrated).

E. M. Bukdahl, The Recurrent Actuality of the Baroque, Controluce, 2017, p. 184, fig. 71 (Turquoise/Magenta version illustrated).



Exhibited

Moscow, Red October Factory (Gagosian Gallery exh.), For what you are about to receive, September-October 2008, pp. 29, 214, 219 and 232 (Turquoise/Magenta version exhibited, illustrated).

Berlin, Neue National Gallery, Jeff Koons: Celebration, October 2008-February 2009 (Turquoise/Magenta version exhibited).

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Baroque Egg with Bow, February 2012-February 2015 (Orange/Magenta version exhibited).
Artist:Jeff Koons (1955)
Art style:Contemporary art
Auction house category:Paintings
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