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JEFF KOONS (B. 1955)

Lot 13
09.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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£ 7 555 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 1306127
Lot 13 | JEFF KOONS (B. 1955)
Valeur estimée
£ 6 500 000 – 10 000 000
JEFF KOONS (B. 1955)
Balloon Monkey (Blue)
mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent colour coating
150 x 126 x 235in. (381 x 320 x 596.9cm.)
Executed in 2006-2013, this work is one of five unique versions (Red, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Orange)




Provenance

Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.



Literature

J. Pissarro, Jeff Koons, exh. cat, Brussels, Almine Rech Gallery, 2012, pp. 73 and 81.
T. Zwick, ‘Double-Barrel Frieze-Week Jeff Koons at Gagosian and Zwirner’, in Art in America 101, no. 5, 2013 (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour).
‘Jeff Koons Sticks With Gagosian For New Spring Exhibition,’ in Artlyst, 6 May 2013, online.
K. Brooks, ‘Jeff Koons Exhibit: ‘New Painting and Sculpture’ Hits Gagosian Gallery,’ in HuffPost, 9 May 2013, online (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour).
A. Russeth, ‘Jeff Koons – New Paintings and Sculpture’ at Gagosian Gallery and ‘Jeff Koons – Gazing Ball’ at David Zwirner,’ in Observer, 14 May 2013, online.
R. Smith, ‘Gladiatorial Combat: The Battle of the Big’, in The New York Times, 17 May 2013 (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour), unpaged.
H. Halle, ‘Jeff Koons,’ in Time Out New York, 6-12 June 2013 (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour, p. 39).
D. Behringer, ‘A Closer Look at Jeff Koons,’ in Design Milk, 18 June 2013, online (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour).
J. E. Kaufman, ‘King of Kitsch,’ in Black Card Mag, Fall 2013 (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour, p. 242).
I. Sischy, ‘Jeff Koons is Back,’ in Vanity Fair, vol. 56, no. 7, July 2014 (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour, p. 89).
J. Kim, ‘A Magician of Creation and Destruction,’ in Art in Asia, August 2014 (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour, p. 78).
H. F. Deballieux, ‘Jeff Koons: faiseur d’icônes,’ in L’œil, vol. 674, 1 December 2014, p. 8.
J. Koons and M. Taylor, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal, London 2014 (Red version illustrated in colour, inside cover and p. 1).
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2015, no. 8 (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour, p. 149).
M. Amy, ‘A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing Clothes,’ in Sculpture, vol. 34, no. 2, March 2015, p. 59 (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour, p. 58).
Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, exh. cat., Bilbao, Fundación Guggenheim Bilbao, 2015, no. 8 (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour, p. 159).
E. Lucie-Smith, ‘Jeff Koons – The Art of Not Quite Now,’ in Artlyst, 20 May 2016, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
‘Jeff Koons and his Play-Doh pile ‘Now’ in London,’ in Euronews, 20 May 2016, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
M. Black, Reflections: In Conversation with Today’s Artists, New York 2016 (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour, pp. 92 and 93).
S. Eckardt, ‘Jeff Koons Will Collaborate with Anyone, From Louis Vuitton to Phone Cases and Lady Gaga,’ in W Magazine, 11 April 2017, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
M. Wakim, ‘Can You Guess Which Jeff Koons Balloon Animal Is Being Built at LACMA as We Speak?’ in Los Angeles Magazine, 13 December 2017, online (Blue version illustrated in colour, installation view of Orange version illustrated in colour).
P. Uttam, ‘The Biggest Sales of the 2010s,’ in Artsy, 19 December 2019, online (installation view of Orange version illustrated in colour).
Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, exh. cat., Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2019, pp. 18 and 23 (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour, p. 19).
S. Novak, ‘PHOTOS: A Look Inside the Booth Estate,’ in Austin American-Statesman, 14 February 2020, online (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour).
‘Qatar Museums to present first exhibition by Jeff Koons in Gulf Region,’ in Gulf Times, 13 September 2021, online (installation view of Yellow version illustrated in colour).
‘Qatar Museums to present first exhibition by Jeff Koons in the Gulf Region,’ in I Love Qatar, 15 September 2021, online (installation view of Yellow version illustrated in colour).
E. Minucci, ‘Jeff Koons e i suoi segreti “Sartre dietro il coniglio”’ in La Stampa, 27 September 2021, online.
‘Jeff Koons ‘Shine’ at Palazzo Strozzi until January 30, 2022,’ in The Florentine, 30 September 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
S. Kobel, ‘Exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi: Jeff Koons' Ode to Beauty,’ in Handelsblatt, 7 October 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
S. Airoldi, ‘L'agenda delle mostre da vedere questa settimana in tutta Italia,’ in Elle Decor, 9 October 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
M. Arrigoni, ‘Jeff Koons in mostra a Firenze accoglie gli spettatori in un luna park del consumismo chic,’ in Harper's Bazaar Italy, 10 October 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
F. Blythe, ‘“I’m Trying to Become a Vaster Human Being”: Jeff Koons on Life and Art,’ in AnOther, 14 October 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
G. Czöppan, ‘Was macht die Koonst?’ in Focus, 16 October 2021 (Blue version illustrated in colour).
H. Lloyd-Smith, ‘At home with Jeff Koons,’ in Wallpaper, 22 October 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
N. Gierowska, ‘Jeff Koons. Shine,’ in The Brooklyn Rail, 2 November 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
C. Mastroianni, ‘A Palazzo Strozzi Jeff Koons presenta “Shine”,’ in Dea Notizie, 18 November 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
M. Holman, ‘Palazzo Strozzi: Jeff Koons’s Shine,’ in The Florentine, 18 November 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
D. Cisi, ‘Shine. Le scintillanti opere di Jeff Koons in mostra a Firenze a Palazzo Strozzi,’ in Glitch Magazine, 27 November 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
G. Bastek, ‘Ai Weiwei and Jeff Koons: Delight and Shine,’ in Vogue Poland, 29 November 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
M. Amore, ‘L’arte neo-pop di Jeff Koons fa risplendere Firenze,’ in La Repubblica, 29 November 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
S. Peifen, ‘“Lost in America”: A Visual Biography of Jeff Koons,’ in The Financial Times (Chinese), 2 December 2021, (installation view of Yellow version illustrated in colour, p. 22).
B. Locoge, ‘Jeff Koons, “Les objets sont mieux préparés que nous à survivre,”’ in Paris Match, 15 December 2021, online (installation view of Yellow version illustrated in colour).
P. Tuchman, ‘Jeff Koons Looks Back on a Life in the Art World,’ in Town & Country, 20 December 2021, online (installation view of Yellow version illustrated in colour).
P. Koustas, ‘What we will remember from the world of fashion and art for 2021,’ in Esquire Greece, 23 December 2021, online (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour).
A. Kane, ‘Debunking the biggest myths around Jeff Koons,’ in Dazed, 21 January 2022, online (installation view of Yellow version illustrated in colour).
K. Bıçak, ‘Jeff Koons’ First Exhibition in the Middle East,’ in Alem Magazine, 2 March 2022, online (installation view of Yellow version illustrated in colour).
B. B. Bonomi, ‘Jeff Koons in Qatar: The American Artist’s Lost in America Exhibition Is One Not To Be Missed…,’ in Harper's Bazaar Arabia, 25 March 2022, online (installation view of Yellow version illustrated in colour).
C. Porterfield, ‘Jeff Koons will send art sculptures to the moon,’ in Forbes Brazil, 4 February 2022, online (installation view of Yellow version illustrated in colour).
‘Jeff Koons on the sale of his sculpture to aid Ukraine: “Art’s true value is to be of service to humanity’ in Christie’s Magazine, 24 June 2022, online (installation view of Magenta version illustrated in colour).
M. Veysi, ‘Review of Jeff Koons. Shine. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy. October 2, 2021–January 30, 2022’ in The Material Cultural Review, vol. 94, Fall 2022, p. 8, no. 1 (installation view of Blue version illustrated in colour, p. 9).
D. Booth and H. Pesanti, Paradox Cove, Austin 2022, pp. 168 and 304 (installation view of Red version illustrated in colour, pp. 14, 26, 166-167, 169 and 304).
S. Frank, ‘Larger than life: Effervescent sculpture belies its 8,000 pounds at Toledo museum,’ in The Blade, 15 October 2023, online (installation view of Magenta version illustrated in colour).



Exhibited

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons: New Paintings & Sculpture, 2013, pp. 16, 82 and 97 (Red version exhibited, installation view illustrated in colour, pp. 77, 83, 87-88 and 97).
London, Newport Street Gallery, Jeff Koons: Now, 2016, p. 103 (Blue version exhibited, installation view illustrated in colour, pp. 77, 82-83 and 103).
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jeff Koons, 2017-2019 (Orange version exhibited).
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Jeff Koons: Shine, 2021-2022, pp. 10, 121 and 187, no. 21 (Blue version exhibited, installation view illustrated in colour, pp. 120, 122-123 and 187).
Doha, Al Riwaq Gallery, Qatar Museums, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, 2021-2022, pp. 177, 178 and 252 (Yellow version exhibited, installation view illustrated in colour, p. 179).
Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Balloon Monkey (Magenta), 2023-2024 (Magenta version exhibited).
Artiste:Jeff Koons (1955)
Style artistique:Art contemporain
Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères:Sculptures, statues et personnages
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