Lot 8
  • 8

Jeff Koons

Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jeff Koons
  • Bear (Green)
  • signed and dated 1999 on the reverse
  • stainless steel, glass and plastic
  • 213 by 150cm.; 83 7/8 by 59in.

Provenance

No Limits Gallery, Milan

Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2000

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue: Bregenz, Kunsthaus, Jeff Koons, 2001, p.57, illustrated in colour

Hans Werner Holzwarth, Jeff Koons, Cologne 2009, p. 458, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Visible only upon very close inspection in raking light, there are a few fine surface scratches characteristic of the artist's choice of media and superficial handling marks isolated in places.
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