Lot 453
  • 453

Jeff Koons

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Jeff Koons
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  • each signed, dated '89 and numbered 24/50
  • color lithograph, in 4 parts
  • Each: 36 by 28 in. 91.4 by 71.1 cm.
  • Executed in 1989, this work is number 24 from an edition of 50 plus 10 artist's proof.

Provenance

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Jeff Koons, November 1992 - April 1993, cat. nos. 48-51, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
London, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, Jeff Koons-A Survey 1981-1994, June - July 1994 (another example exhibited)
Hamburger, Kunsthalle, Family Values: American Art in the Eighties and Nineties: the Scharpff Collection at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1996, p. 53, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, September - November 1997 (another example exhibited)
Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration, December 1999 – May 2000, pp. 44-45, illustrated in color  (another example exhibited)
Kunsthalle Bielefield, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002, September - November 2002, pp. 54-57, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Athens, DESTE Foundation Center  for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now, June - December 2004, pp. 141, 214 and  215, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Oslo, The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; Helsinki City Art Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, September 2004 - April 2005, pp. 90-93, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May - September 2008, p, 68, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, The Making of Art: the Art World and Its Players, May - August 2009, pp. 150, 153-154 and 157, illustrated in color  (another example exhibited)
London, Tate Modern; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, POP Life: Art in a Material World, October 2009 - September 2010, p. 39 (Art in America), 116-117 (all), illustrated in color

Literature

Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 1992, pl. 1-4, p. 98-102, illustrated in color
Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Geuna, Jeff Koons, Naples, 2003, pp. 73-77, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [and travelling], Jeff Koons, December 1992 - October 1993, fig. 14, p. 28, illustrated in color (bottom right panel only)
Kunstverein Munchen e.V., Das konstruierte Bild, 1989, pp. 51-53 and 151-152, illustrated
Glenn O'Brien, "Koons Ad Nauseam," Parkett, no. 19, Zürich, 1989, p. 64, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Makuhari Messe, Pharmakon '90, 1990, illustrated
Andrew Renton, "Jeff Koons and The Art of Deal,"  Performance, no. 61, September 1990, pp. 18, 19 (detail) and 20-29, illustrated
lbig Jorg-Uwe, "Jeff Koons, ein Prophet der inneren Leere," Art, December 1992, p. 58, illustrated
The Jeff Koons Handbook, London, 1992, pp. 90, 93-95, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Pasadena Art Alliance, Hollywood, Hollywood: Identity under the Guise of Celebrity, 1992 p. 45, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Zeitspruenge, 1993, pp. 52-55, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Bregenz, Jeff Koons, July - September 16, 2001, p. 17, illustrated (d'Offay 1994 exhibition)
Exh. Cat., Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, June - September 2003, pp. 73-77, illustrated in color
Kelly Devine Thomas, "The Selling of Jeff Koons," ArtNews 104, May, 2005, no. 5, p. 119, illustrated in color
Gunnar B. Kvaran, Jeff Koons: Retrospettivamente, Milan, 2007, p. 66, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jeff Koons - Celebration, October 2008 - February 2009, pp. 40-41, 102-103, illustrated in color
Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 2008, pp. 255, 257, 258 and 259, illustrated in color
Jonathan Shaughnessy, "Sex Sells: Art Publicity and Pop Life," Vernissage:The Magazine of the National Gallery of Canada, Spring 2010, p. 19, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. There are scattered white accretions on the surface of the lithographs as well as scattered soft creases to the sheets. The sheets are hinged verso to the matte along the top edges. Each framed under Plexiglas.
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