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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2013 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 37 | $****** - ****** | Lobster |
sculpture
246.4 x 47.9 x 94 cm (97.01 x 18.86 x 37.01 in)
polychromed aluminum, coated steel chain
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2003
Ingrid Abramovitch, "American Scene: This Month on the Design Beat," House & Garden, August 2004, p. 59, illustrated in color (ed. no. unknown) ; Exh. Cat., New York, C&M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, 2004, pl. 20, p. 63 and p. 89, illustrated in color (ed. no. 1/3); Linda Yablonsky, "Jeff Koons," Art + Auction, March 2004, p. 37, illustrated in color (ed. no. unknown); Exh. Cat., Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, and travelling, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, 2004 - 2005, p. 32 and p. 114, illustrated in color (another example); Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons (Supercontemporanea series), Milan, 2006, pp.88-89, illustrated in color (ed. no. unknown); Maria Chiara Valacchi, "Jeff Koons," Muse World Style (Italy), no. 7, Spring 2007, pp. 40-51, illustrated (ed. no. unknown); Exh. Cat., London, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, 2007, fig. no. 42, p. 41, illustrated in color (ed. no. unknown); "Jeff Koons: Popeye and Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis at Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street and Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street," Art and Living, Summer 2007, no. 6, p. 108, illustrated (ed. no. unknown) ; Josiah McElheny, "Readymade Resistance: Art and the Forms of Industrial Production," Artforum, October 2007, illustrated in color (ed. no. unknown) ; Stephanie Seymour, "Jeff Koons: Art Made in Heaven," Whitewall, Fall 2007, p. 125, illustrated in color (ed. no. unknown) ; Philip Utz, "Catching up with Jeff Koons," Numéro (Tokyo), no. 6, September 2007, pp. 64-69, illustrated (ed. no. unknown); Gunnar B. Kvaran, Arthur C. Danto, Hanne Beate Ueland, Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons: Retrospettivamente, Milan, 2007, p. 32, illustrated (ed. no. unknown); Helianthe Bourdeaux-Martin, "Profile - Dominique Levy," Whitewall, Winter 2008, illustrated (ed. no. unknown); Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 2007, p. 529, illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the front cover (p. 543, illustrated in color in the 2009 edition) [ed. no. unknown]; Susan Stamberg, "Jeff Koons has a 'Ta-Da' Moment in Chicago," NPR, Morning Edition, 25 July 2008, illustrated (ed. no. 3/3, the present work); Exh. Cat., Versailles, Chateau de Versailles, Jeff Koons Versailles, 2008-09, p. 142, illustrated in color and pp. 49, 50 and 51 illustrated in color in installation at the Chateau de Versailles (ed. no. 2/3); Sylvie Gassot, "Jeff Koons: il Fait sa Revolution Pop Chez Louis XIV," Gala, August 2008, p. 78, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); "King Koons" in French Elle, August 18, 2008, p. 93, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Vincent Noce, "Coup de Koons a Versailles," Liberation, August 26, 2008, p. 28, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Laurence Dreyfus, "Jeff Koons, Roi Soleil," l'Officiel, September 2008, p. 331, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Laurence Dreyfus, "En Grande Pompe," l'Optimum, September 2008, p. 113, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Charles Andrew, "Koons at Versailles," So Chic, 2008, p. 27, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Sylvie Gassot, "Jeff Koons a Versailles: Provocation ou Revolution?" Paris Capitale, no. 134, September 2008, p. 57, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); "Le Mois: Coups de Koons," Femmes, September 2008, p. 57, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); "Art contemporain: Les temps forts," Le Figaro et vous, September 4, 2008, p. 30, illustrated (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Annick Colonna-Cesari, "De l'art ou du homard?" L'Express, September 4, 2008, p. 122, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Bernard Genies, "Un artiste revolutionnaire," Challenges, September 4, 2008, p. 85, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Laetitia Cenac, "le roi Koons a Versailles," Madame Figaro, September 6, 2008, p. 138, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Matthieu Suc, "Jeff Koons bouscule Versailles," Le Parisien, September 10, 2008, p. 31, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Patrice de Meritens, "Un homard geant a Versailles, est-ce bien raisonnable?" Le Figaro Magazine, September 13, 2008, p. 46, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Yasmine Youssi, "Jeff Koons s'offre la vie de chateau," La Tribune, September 12-13, 2008, p. 28, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Bernard Genies, "Tiens, voila du hommard!" le nouvel Observateur, September 17, 2008, p. 117, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Catherine Schwaab, "Art contemporain: la Folie n'a plus de prix," Match, Paris, September 25, 2008, p. 77, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Jean-Pierre Frimbois, "Jeff Koons: son Pari a Versailles," art actuel, no. 58, September - October 2008, p. 8, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Michael Houellebecq, "Jeff Koons," Art World, issue 7, October/November 2008, p. 33, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Sylvie Lambert, "Jeff Koons," l'Officiel Hommes, Fall-Winter 2008/2009, p. 105, illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Laura Moure Cecchini, "Jeff Koons: La estetizacion del consumismo," in Textofilia, no. 17, Mexico 2008, p. 59, illustrated in color (ed. no. unknown); Exh. Cat., London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye, 2009, p. 34, illustrated in color (ed. no. unknown); Exh. Cat., Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons: New Paintings, 2009 - 2010, p. 5, fig. 9, illustrated in color (ed. no. unknown) and p. 22, illustrated in color (the artist with the sculpture); Marybeth Sollins, ed., art: 21, Dalton, 2009, p. 90, illustrated in color (ed. no. unknown); “Jeff Koons the Top Selling Living Artist,” Harper’s Bazaar Men’s Style (Beijing Edition), February 2010, p 158 illustrated in color (Versailles installation, ed. no. 2/3); Elliott H. King, Salvador Dali: The Late Work (High Museum of Art Series), New Haven, September 2010, p. 9, illustrated in color (ed. no. unknown); The Brant Foundation, Remembering Henry’s Show, Greenwich, 2010 p. 9 (detail), p. 79 (partial view in installation), pp. 109 and 175, and inside cover of dust jacket (detail), illustrated in color (ed. no. 3/3)
