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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 13, 2014 | Christie's | London | Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 23 | $****** - ****** | Cracked Egg (Magenta) |
sculpture
165.1 x 159.1 x 159.1 cm (65 x 62.64 x 62.64 in)
mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent colour coating
Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.
London, Gagosian Gallery, Cracked Egg (Blue), 2006 (Cracked Egg (Blue) exhibited).Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, 2008, p. 115 (illustrated in colour, p. 83).London, Royal Academy of Arts, 240th Summer Exhibition, 2008, no. 1043, pp. 107 and 131 (Cracked Egg (Blue) exhibited and awarded The Charles Wollaston Award).Los Angeles, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, 2008 (Cracked Egg (Red) exhibited).Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, 2008-2009, p. 57 (installation view of Cracked Egg (Blue) illustrated in colour, pp. 54-57).Aylesbury, Waddesdon Manor Conservatory, Cracked Egg (Blue), 2010 (Cracked Egg (Blue) exhibited).Kiev, PinchukArtCentre, Sexuality and Transcendence, 2010, p. 13 (Cracked Egg (Violet)exhibited and illustrated in colour, pp. 14-15).Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, 2012 (Cracked Egg (Blue) exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 157).
M. Duncan, ‘LACMA Sizes Up’, in Art in America, May 2008 (Cracked Egg (Red) illustrated in colour, p. 68).P. McCaughey, ‘Taming the Monster’, in Apollo, April 2008 (installation view of Cracked Egg (Red) illustrated in colour, p. 30).H.W. Holzwarth (ed.), Jeff Koons, Cologne 2009, p. 588 (installation view of Cracked Egg (Blue)illustrated in colour, pp. 408-409).H.W. Holzwarth (ed.), 100 Contemporary Artists A-K, Cologne 2009, pp. 322 and 693 (Cracked Egg(Blue), illustrated in colour, p. 324).J. Jones, ‘Not Just the King of Kitsch’, in The Guardian, 30 June 2009 (Cracked Egg (Blue)illustrated in colour, p. 324).T. Thompson, ‘Modern Art at Waddesdon Manor’, in The Oxford Times, 29 July 2010 (Cracked Egg(Blue)).S. Delos, ‘Une Journée avec Jeff Koons’, in Elle, September 2010 (Cracked Egg (Blue) illustrated incolour).K. Crown, ‘A Steel Mogul’s Fascination with Koons’s ‘Cracked Egg’’, in The Wall Street Journal, 26 July2013 (Cracked Egg (Violet) illustrated in colour).H.W. Holzwarth (ed.), Brancusi in New York 1913-2013, exh. cat., New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2013, p. 88.
