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Jeff Koons

Little Girl

Auction Closed

March 1, 09:28 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jeff Koons

b. 1955


Little Girl

signed, dated '88 and numbered 1/3 (on the reverse)

mirror, glass

63 by 64½ by 3 in.

160 by 163.8 by 7.6 cm.

Executed in 1988, this work is number 1 from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.

Sonnabend Gallery, New York 

Private Collection, Germany 

Private Collection, London (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 9 November 2005, lot 3 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, United States

Christie's, New York, 11 May 2011, lot 33

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Rene Block, The Readymade Boomerang / Art is Easy: Certain Relations in Twentieth Century Art. The 8th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney 1990, p. 476

Robert Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook, New York 1992, p. 159

Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, Germany 1992, pl. 14, p. 110, illustrated in color

Jan Avgikos, "All That Heaven Allows: Love, Honor, and Koonst," Flash Art, Summer 1993, p. 83, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Gesammelte Werke 1 Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968, 1999, p. 273

Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Germany 2007, p. 288, illustrated in color

Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Germany 2009, p. 284, illustrated in color

Brigitte Kölle, Ed Geht Voran Kunst der 80er. Ein Düsseldorf Perspektive, Munich, p. 148, illustrated in color

Katy Sigel, Since '45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art, London 2011, p. 161, illustrated

L. Marsova, "AO On Site - Basel - Artist talk with Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler, Thursday June 14, 2012," Art Observed, 14 June 2012, n.p., illustrated in color

Raphael Bouvier, Jeff Koons: Der Künstler als Täufer, Munich 2012, p. 168 and pl. 34, p. 260, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Remember Everything - 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, 2014, p. 14, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Venice, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Jeff Koons. Shine, 2021, pp. 21, 24, illustrated in color

Sonnabend Gallery; Chicago, Donald Young Gallery; Cologne, Max Hetzler, Banality, November 1988 - January 1989 (another example exhibited)

Berlin, Marin-Gropius-Bau, Metropolis, April - July 1991 (another example exhibited)

San Francisco Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Jeff Koons, December 1992 - October 1993, no. 42, pl. 44, p. 98, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Aarhus Kunstmuseum; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 1992 - April 1993, p. 57, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 2014 - September 2015, pl. 67, p. 112, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Riehen, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May - September 2012, pp. 106-07, illustrated in color and p. 180 (another example exhibited)