JEFF KOONS | SNORKEL (GENERIC), 1985

Feature, New York

Susan and Lewis Manilow, Chicago

Van de Weghe, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Robert Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook, London 1992, p. 154, illustrated

Angelika Muthesius, Jeff Koons, Barcelona 1992, p. 166 (text)

Ingrid Sischy and Katy Siegel. Jeff Koons, Barcelona 2009, p.171, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, 2014, p. 72, (text)

“Koons manipulates objects into metaphorical embodiments of society’s dysfunctions. This poetics of objects recalls Jasper Johns’ cast-bronze beer cans, in which an ordinary object becomes endowed with a surplus of meaning, and the surrealist tactic of juxtaposing unexpected elements, as in Meret Oppenheim’s fur-covered teacup”

Daniela Salvioni, ‘Jeff Koons’s Poetics of Class’, in: Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, 1992, p. 20