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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 16, 2011 | Christie's | London | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 16 | $****** - ****** | Winter Bears | |||
Nov 16, 1999 | Christie's | New York | Contemporary Art | 51 | $****** - ****** | Winter Bears |
sculpture
121.9 x 111.8 x 39.4 cm (47.99 x 44.02 x 15.51 in)
polychromed wood
Deitch Projects, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1994.
Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler; New York, Sonnabend Gallery and Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, Banality, 1988-89 (another from the edition exhibited). Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Vertigo, 1991 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, pp. 65 and 75). London, Serpentine Gallery, Objects for the Ideal Home: The Legacy of Pop Art, 1991 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 29 and on the cover). Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, 1992, no. 47 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 65 and on the back cover). This exhibition later travelled to Aarhus, Kunstmuseum and Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie. Bielefeld, Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002, 2002 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, installation view, p. 23). Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, 2003 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 69). New York, C & M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, 2004, pl. 2 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 23). London, Tate Modern, Artist Rooms, 2009-11 (another from the edition exhibited). This exhibition will later travel to Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland. Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Childish Things, 2010-11 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 44).
Mit dem Fernrohr durch die Kunstgeschichte, Von Galilei zu den Gebrüdern Montgolfier, exh. cat., Basel, Kunsthalle, 1989, no. 50 (another from the edition illustrated, unpaged). S. Morgan, "Big Fun", in ArtScribe International, March-April 1989, no. 74 (another from the edition illustrated). M. Sentis, "The Importance of Being Banal", in Lapiz, October 1989, no. 61 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 38). D. Pinchbeck, "Jeff Koons", in Splash, April 1989 (illustrated, p. 69). A. Renton, "Review, Objects for the Ideal Home, Serpentine", in Flash Art, November-December 1991, no. 161 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 136). A.C. Papadakis (ed.), "Pop Art", in Art & Design, 1991 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 6 and on the back cover). J. Koons and R. Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook, Cologne 1992, p. 160. A. Muthesius (ed.), Jeff Koons, Cologne 1992 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 111). K. Seward, "Frankenstein im Paradies, John M. Armleder, Jeff Koons, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Thomas Struth, Sue Williams: In Broad Daylight", in The Parkett Series with Contemporary Artists, no. 50-51, 1997 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 80). R. Calvocressi, "Artist Rooms", in Arts Quarterly, Summer 2008 (illustrated in colour, p. 40). G. Bader, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago", in Artforum, September 2008 (illustrated in colour, p. 450). H.W. Holzwarth, Jeff Koons, Cologne 2009 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 269 and installation views illustrated, pp. 258 and 268).
