Contemporary Discoveries
Contemporary Discoveries
Monkey Train Skateboard
No reserve
Lot Closed
March 16, 07:21 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jeff Koons
b. 1955
Monkey Train Skateboard
signed Jeff Koons and dated 2/5/07 (lower right, top of skateboard); signed Jeff Koons and titled (center, top of skateboard)
heat transfer print on wooden Supreme skate deck and marker
31 by 8 in.
78.7 by 20.3 cm.
Executed in 2006.
Armitage Gone!, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Nancy Hall Duncan & Peter C. Sutton, Contemporary + Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III, Wilmington, 2007, illustrated in color pp. 84-85
Eileen Kinsella, "Arttalk: Skate of the Art", ARTnews, December 2006, (color ill. p. 120)
"The New Custom of the Country," Art + Auction 31, no. 10, (July 2008), p. 69 (color ill. p. 69)
Ed Looram, “Wassup, Art World,” Tokion 2, no. 2 (2008), p. 24 (color ill. p. 24)
Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012, (October 2014) (color ill. p. 73)
Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, exh. cat., New Haven and London, 2014, p. 191 (color ill. p. 191, fig. 8)
Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, exh. cat., New York and Paris, 2014, p. 199 (color ill. p. 199, fig. 8)
Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, exh. cat., Bilbao, 201, p. 203 (color ill. p. 203, fig. 8)
"The Only Complete Set of Supreme Skate Decks Up for Auction for US$800,000," The Value, January 14, 2019 (color ill.)
Robert Frank, "Skateboard deck collection sells for a record $800,000," CNBC, January 29, 2019 )(color ill.)
Karla Roca, "5 millonarias e inusuales colaboraciones de Supreme a la venta," Robb Report (Mexico), May 15, 2020 (color ill.)
Wendy Goodman, "Office Life, Inside and Out Paper co-founder Kim Hastreiter renovated a studio in her building to be her new office," Curbed, October 26, 2020 (color ill.)