Jeff Koons

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Private Collection, London

Christie's New York, 16 May 2000, lot 16 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Peter Carlsen, "Jeff Koons: On the occasion of his first museum retrospective, a look at one of the most captivating artists of the 1980s," Contemporanea International Art Magazine, No. 3, September/October 1988, p. 40, illustrated in color (in progress)

Exh. Cat., Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie International – 1988, 1988

Kim Levin, "Evil of Banality," Village Voice, 20 December 1988, p. 11 (text)

Peter Plagens, "International Shows: Under Western Eyes," Art in America, January 1989, p. 36, illustrated in color

Diedrich Diederichsen, "I'll Buy That," Parkett, No. 19, 1989, p. 76, illustrated in color (installed in Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, 1989)

Lawrence Chua, "Jeff Koons," Flash Art, No. 114, January - February 1989, p.113 (text)

Nancy Spector, "Exhibitions: Carnegie International," Contemporanea 2, No. 1, January - February 1989, p.104 (text)

Henry Hanson, "Art Works: Highbrow, High-Priced Tchotchkes," Chicago, No. 2, February 1989, p. 23, illustrated in color

Morgan Stuart, Jutta Koether, David Salle, and Sherrie Levine, "Big Fun: Four Reactions to the New Jeff Koons," Artscribe, March/April 1989, p. 46, illustrated in color

Adrian Piper, “A Paradox of Conscience,” New Art Examiner, No. 8, April 1989, p. 30 (text)

Daniel Pinchbeck, “Jeff Koons,” Splash, April 1989, p. 70 (text)

Jorg-Uwe Albig, "Koons' kitschiger Zombie-Zoo," Stern, December 1989, pp. 5, 108-113 (text) and p. 108, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, 1989, pp. 40, 173 (text)

Paul Tschinkel, dir., Program No. 31: Jeff Koons, the Banality Work, 1989, illustrated in color (installed in New York, Sonnabend Gallery, 1988)

Brooks Adams, "'Into the Words': Thoughts on a Forest of Signs," Architectural Digest, 1990, p. 41, illustrated (in installation) and p. 45 (text)

Robert Storr, "Jeff Koons - Gym Dandy," Interview, Art Press, October 1990, p. 19, illustrated in color

Robert Morgan, "Jeff Koons," New Art International, No. 8, June - July 1990, p. 44, illustrated in color

Robert Enright, "The Material Boy and the Femme Fidele," Border Crossings, No. 1, Winter 1990-1991, pp. 42-43, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, 1991, p. 82 (text)

Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 1992, p. 20, illustrated in color (installed in New York, Sonnabend Gallery, 1988), pp. 25, 168 (text) and p. 122, illustrated in color

Carter Ratcliff, Rhonda Lieberman, and Jo Anna Isaak, "Jeff Koons: Not for Repro," Artforum, No. 6, February 1992, p. 82, illustrated in color

Robert Rosenblum and Jeff Koons, The Jeff Koons Handbook, London, 1992, p. 160 (text)

"Jeff Koons og konen siger ja til sexunionen," Holbæk, 23 January 1993, illustrated

David Littlejohn, "Who is Jeff Koons and why are people saying such terrible things about him?" ARTnews, Vol. 92, No. 4, April 1993, p. 91 (text)

Horst Valer, "Art of Total Banality,” Das Magazin, Berlin, April 1993, p. 57, illustrated in color

Søren Vinterberg, "Exquisite Bad Taste," Politiken, 15 January 1994, n.p., illustrated in color (on cover of culture section)

Thaddeus Ropac, ed., Die Muse? Transforming the Image of Woman in contemporary Art Salzburg, 1995, p. 73, illustrated

David Bowie and Jeff Koons, "Super-Banalism and the Innocent Salesman," Modern Painters 11, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 27-28, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Gesammelte Werke 1 Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968, 1999, p. 270, illustrated in color and p. 273 (text)

Alexandra Peers and Robert Hughes, "The New Face of Art Has a Face'," The Wall Street Journal, May 2000

Carol Vogel, "Record Prices for Contemporary Artists as a Young Audience Spends New Money," The New York Times, 18 May 2000, p. A26, illustrated

Carol Vogel, "A Taste of the 80s High Prices for Contemporary Art," The New York Times, 19 May 2000, p. A27 (text)

Marina Mojana, "New York City Contemporary Art Auctions - The Balance," Tema Celeste, July-September 2000, p. 125, illustrated in color

Laura Tansini, "Never say Kitsch...Seduce with images,” ARS, No. 45, September 2001, p. 87 (text)

Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001, p. 19, illustrated in color (installed in Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler, 1988)

Elisabeth Couturier, " Jeff Koons: His Kitsch is Worth Millions!" Paris Match, Paris, January 2003, p. 4, illustrated in color

Daniel Birnbaum, "Ripening on the Rhine: The Cologne Art World of the '80s," Artforum, Vol. 41, no. 7, March 2003, p. 220, illustrated (installed in Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler, 1988)

Exh. Cat., National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, 2003, p. 151 (text)

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Private/Corporate II, Works from the Daimler Chrysler Collection and from the Ileana Sonnabend Collection: A Dialogue, 2003, p. 13, illustrated in color (installed in New York, Sonnabend Gallery, 1988)

Exh. Cat., Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, 2004, pp. 66, 67, 80 (text) (titled Woman in the Tub)

Wendy Solomon, "Koons: the artist matures," York Sunday News, 10 December 2005, pp. A1, A12

Adam Lindemann, Collecting Contemporary, Los Angeles, 2006, p. 156 (text)

Konrad Paul Liessmann, Eros in Modern Art, Basel, 2006, p. 189, illustrated in color and p. 215 (text)

Leslie Camhi, “The Seer - Ileana Sonnabend,” The New York Times, 2 December 2007, pp. 47, 206-209, illustrated in color (installed in New York, Sonnabend Gallery, 1988) and p. 234 (text)

Robert Pincus-Witten, “Passages: The Eyes Had It,” ArtForum, January 2008, p. 70, illustrated in color (installed in New York, Sonnabend Gallery, 1988)

Nina Metz, “The Artist at Home,” Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2008

Marie-Pierre Nakamura, "USA: Jeff Koons," Art Actuel, No. 57, July/August 2008, p. 71, illustrated in color

 Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 2008, pp. 266, 298-99 (installation view), p. 268 (in production) and pp. 301-303, illustrated in color

John Caldwell, This is About Who We Are: The Collected Writings of John Caldwell, San Francisco, 2008, p. 190 (text)

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons: The Conversation Series, Cologne, 2009, p. 34, illustrated

Anthony Haden-Guest, "Jeff Koons' Destructive Impulses," The Daily Beast, 24 July 2009, illustrated in color (online)

Andreas Tölke, "Gleichgewicht der Kräfte," Build, March 2011, p. 5, illustrated in color

Claudia Schulmerich, “Kitsch as Kitsch can,” Weltexpresso, 19 June 2012 (text)

Andrea Chin, "Jeff Koons at the Beyeler Foundation part 2," Designboom, 29 June 2012 (text)

Catherine Hickley, "Jeff Koons Fashions Venus’s Buttocks in Shiny Steel," Bloomberg, 24 June 2012, illustrated in color (online)

Räphael Bouvier, Jeff Koons - Der Künstler Als Täufer, Munich, 2012, pl. 29, p. 257, illustrated

Philippe Parreno, "Jeff Koons und Philippe Parreno in der Fondation Beyeler," Artinside, 2012, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, 2012, pp. 11, 15, 189 (text) and pp. 138-39, illustrated in color

Lucy Davies, "Is Jeff Koons Having a laugh?" The Telegraph, 18 June 2013 (text) (online)

Katherine Brooks, “Jeff Koons - An Artist, Wrapped In A Mystery, Inside Shiny Stainless Steel,” HuffingtonPost, 27 June 2014, illustrated in color (installed in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2014) (online)

Ben Davis, “Jeff Koons as the Art World’s Great White Hope,” Artnet, 26 June 2014, illustrated in color (installed in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2014)

Jeff Koons, "Feeling," Art in America, June/July 2014, p. 41, illustrated in color

Ingrid Sischy, " Jeff Koons L'Art Gonflé," Vanity Fair, October 2014, p. 132, illustrated in color

Emmanuelle Lequeux, “Vous verrez: dans vingt ans, on dira que Jeff Koons a construit une œuvre morale,” Beaux Arts/TTM éditions, December 2014, p. 5, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Remember Everything – 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, 2014, p. 6 , illustrated (installed in Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler, 1988) and pp. 8, 13, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, 2014, p. 77, , illustrated in color (installed in New York, Sonnabend Gallery, 1988)

James Rondeau, Edlis / Neeson Collection The Art Institute of Chicago, Rondeau, Chicago, 2016, pl. 25, pp. 64, 130, illustrated in color

Mike Argento, "For Koons, art is everywhere & everything is art (column)," York Daily Record, 18 January 2017

Exh. Cat., New York, Lévy Gorvy, Ileana Sonnabend and Arte Povera, 2017, n.p., , illustrated in color (installed in New York, Sonnabend Gallery, 1988)

Grace Banks, Play With Me: Dolls, Women, Art, London, 2017, p. 10 (text)

Robert Storr, Interviews on Art, London, 2017, p. 390, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Mexico City, Museo Jumex, Apariencia desnuda: El Deseo y el objeto en la obra de Marcel Duchamp y Jeff Koons, 2019, pp. 39, 91 (text)

Exh. Cat., Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, 2019, pp. 28-29, illustrated in color

AnnMarie Perl, "A more public arena: Jeff Koons’ Reinvention in the Midst of Reaganism," Association for Art History, June 2020, p. 476,illustrated in color (installed in New York, Sonnabend Gallery, 1988)

Pietro Mini, "A Dialogue with Artist Jeff Koons: Trust in Yourself!" Designboom, 28 September 2021, illustrated in color (online) 

Exh. Cat., Venice, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Jeff Koons. Shine, 2021, p. 181, illustrated (installed in Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, 2012) and p. 175, Max Hetzler Galerie installation partial view)

Flaminio Gualdoni, Contemporary Art - The Protagonists: 04- Koons, Italy, 2022, pp. 38-39, illustrated in color

Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler, Banality, November 1988

New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Banality, November – December 1988

Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, Banality, December - January 1989

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20^th Century Art, April – June 1990, p. 422, illustrated in color and p. 476 (text) (another edition)

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum; and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 1992 - April 1993, p. 77, illustrated in color and p. 99 (text) (Amsterdam); p. 60, illustrated in color and p. 113 (text) (Denmark) (another edition)

Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, The Muse? Transforming the Image of Woman in Contemporary Art, September - February 1995 (another edition)

New York, C&M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, April - June 2004 pl. 11, pp. 42-43, 85, 88, illustrated in color (another edition)

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May - September 2008, ilustrated in color (on the cover) (detail) and pp. 59, 114, illustrated in color (another edition)

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pandora's Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, June - October 2011 (another edition)

Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May - September 2012, p. 102, illustrated in color (installed in Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, 1989) (another edition)

Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, June - September 2012 (another edition)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June - October 2014, pp. 22, 116, 287 (text), pp. 106-07, illustrated in color and fig. 11, illustrated in color (installed in Basel, Fondation Beyeler, 2012) (another edition)

Paris, Grand Palais, Barbier-Mueller Collections for La Biennale Paris, September 2017 (the present work)