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WALL RELIEF WITH BIRD by Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

WALL RELIEF WITH BIRD, 1991

Polychromed wood
182.9 x 127 x 68.6 cm (72.01 x 50 x 27.01 in)
Sculpture
Edition of 3
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, London (26 Jun 2019)
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ImageLast Sale DateTitleEdition No.Last SaleLast Sale Auction HouseLast Sale Location
Jun 26, 2019WALL RELIEF WITH BIRD1
Sotheby'sLondon
May 17, 2000WALL RELIEF WITH BIRD
Sotheby'sNew York
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Artwork Description
Category

sculpture

Dimensions

182.9 x 127 x 68.6 cm (72.01 x 50 x 27.01 in)

Materials

polychromed wood

Signature

incised with the artist's signature, dated 91 and numbered 1/3

Provenance

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the previous owner in August 2002

Exhibited

New York, Sonnabend Gallery; Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler; and Lausanne, Galerie Lehmann, Made in Heaven, November 1991 - May 1992 (edition no. unknown)

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Aarhus, Aarhus Kunstmuseum; and Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 1992 - April 1993, p. 81, illustrated in colour (Amsterdam and Stuttgart); and p. 78, no. 60, illustrated in colour (Aarhus), (edition no. unknown)

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol: Flowers, November - December 2002, cover and pp. 12-13 and 18, illustrated in colour (the present work)

New York, C&M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, April - June 2004, pp. 52-53, no. 16 and no. 85, illustrated in colour (edition 2/3)

Riehen, Foundation Beyeler, Flower Myth – From Vincent Van Gogh to Jeff Koons, February - May 2005, pp. 83, 195 and 208, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Flower as image: Araki, Arp, Blossfeldt, Cardoso, Cézanne, Corinth, Cunningham, Cook, Edmier, Ensor, Ernst, Fautrier, Frandsen, Gauguin, Goncharova, Hockney, Hume, Kelly, Klein, Koons, Kounellis, Léger, Manet, Mapplethorpe, Matisse, Milhazes, Mondrian, Monet, Monticel, September 2004 - January 2005 (edition no. unknown)

London, Tate Modern; Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle; and Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, POP Life: Art in a Material World, October 2009 - September 2010, p. 140, illustrated in colour (edition no. 3/3)

Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, June - September 2012, p. 140, illustrated in colour (edition 3/3)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, September - December 2012, p. 140, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June - October 2014, pp. 131 and 300, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Literature

Angelika Muthesius, Ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 1992, pp. 142 (in installation at Made in Heaven, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, 1991), 143 and frontispiece (detail), illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, The Jeff Koons Handbook, London 1992, p. 139, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Burkhard Riemschneider, Ed., Jeff Koons: 30 Postcards, Cologne 1992, n.p., illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

John Caldwell and Jeff Koons et al., Jeff Koons, San Francisco 1992, n.p., no. 61, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela 1995, p. 145 (text), (edition no. unknown)

Exh. Cat., Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zeichen & Wunder: Niko Pirosmani (1862 - 1918) und die Kunst der Gegenwart, March - June 1995, p. 129, no. 8, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Exh. Cat., Bielefeld, Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980 - 2002, September - November 2002, p. 24, illustrated in colour (installation view), (edition no. unknown)

Hans Werner Holzwarth, Ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2007 and 2009, p. 370 (2007); and p. 380 (2009), illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Peter Richter, ‘I heart Jeff Koons’, BMW Magazine, Autumn 2010, p. 55, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Raphaël Bouvier, Jeff Koons - Der Künstler als Täufer, Munich 2012, p. 266, no. 43, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Exh Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective, November 2014 April 2015, pp. 139, no. 80 and 300, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Exh Cat., Bilbao, Guggenhem Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, June - September 2015, p. 135, no. 80, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons, Cologne 2015, p. 50, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Gagosian Gallery, Gagosian Quarterly, New York 2016, p. 152, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Description

incised with the artist's signature, dated 91 and numbered 1/3

polychromed wood

182.9 by 127 by 68.6 cm. 72 by 50 by 27 in.

This work is number 1 from an edition of 3, plus 1 artist's proof.