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Jeff Koons

Blue Balloon Dog

10 1/4 X 10 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches
Jeff Koons

Blue Balloon Dog

2002
Cast porcelain sculpture coated with a reflective finish
10 1/4 X 10 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches
Edition of 2300
Stamped "Jeff Koons" in Blue on the reverse
Hand numbered in felt-tip pen on the reverse
Produced by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Pristine condition, in the original publisher's box

Exhibited
Some Aesthetic Decisions: Centenary Celebration of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain. NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida [May 14 - September 3, 2017]

Literature
Lien Kaspari, “Promis stellen ihre Werke auf Sylt aus," Bild (Germany), June 27, 2020, (color ill. online)
"Artworks by Sargent, Koons, Chihuly, James B. Sword all fare well at Bruneau & Co.’s Feb. 15 auction,” Artfix Daily, February 21, 2020, (color ill. online)
“Leather vest by Paul Jambers goes under the hammer," Nieuwsblad (Netherlands), January 28, 2020, (color ill. online)
Travis Landry, "Bruneau & Co.'s auction on Saturday, Feb. 15 in Cranston, R.I., will feature artworks by Jeff Koons, John Singer Sargent," EIN News, January 24, 2020, (color ill. online)
Nate Freeman, “5 Essential Tips for Collecting Prints," Artsy, August 17, 2018, (color ill. online)

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Balloon Dog is a very optimistic piece, it's a balloon that a clown might twist for you at a birthday party. But at the same time there's the profoundness of an archaic sculpture. The piece has an interior life while the reflective exterior surface affirms the viewer through their reflection. The porcelain only accentuates the sexuality of the piece.

JEFF KOONS BALLOON DOG

Jeff Koons' Blue Balloon Dog is considered the supreme example from the highly acclaimed Celebration series of paintings and sculptures that Koons began in the early 1990s. The series evolved from his desire to recreate the ecstatic experiences of a child's enjoyment of the world through universal signifiers representing birthday parties and festive events. It is one of five Balloon Dog sculptures made from precision engineered, mirror-polished porcelain and finished with a translucent coating of either blue, magenta, orange, red, or yellow. Balloon Dog radiantly beautiful color and pristine finish embodies a contemporary vision of fin-de-siécle opulence. With its giant swollen body and highly reflective surface, porcelain balloon animal conveys a miraculous illusion of weightlessness.

The sheer beauty of its materiality is designed to ensnare and captivate, while its form is endowed with the joyful associations of childhood, hope and innocence. Blue Balloon Dog uses sentimentality as a tool of insight, one that speaks directly to and about a collective humanity. Its high impact form, and subject encapsulates Koons' egalitarian approach to art; and his masterful ability to create intellectually and sensuously exciting objects from the banal and familiar. Content aside, in formal terms Balloon Dog marked a new pinnacle of sculpture as an entire medium, discipline and tradition. It is a bold and forceful, radiating powerfully with an almost epic sense of vitality, qualities that have firmly secured its status as one of the defining artworks of the 20th century.

When the Celebration works eventually started to be shown in museums around the world in 2000, Koons' reputation as one of the world's greatest sculptors was immediately renewed and deepened. Over the years, he has explored a whole gamut of sculptural materials, including readymade objects, bronze, porcelain, wood, stainless steel, Murano glass, and even live flowers. It is these three-dimensional forms that find the most enthusiasm as their tangible qualities posses an ability to engage sensual experience in a way that is almost impossible in any other medium.

The Jeff Koons Blue Balloon Dog Limited Edition Multiple Sculpture that Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd., has for sale is in Pristine Condition, contained in the Original White Box, as originally published in 2002.

Each Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculpture is accompanied with the original plastic stand, and most importantly, the Sculpture has never been displayed and/or handled like many Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculptures bought and sold on the secondary market.

That means the Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculpture purchased from Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd., is without the usual fingerprints; scuffs; nicks and missing pieces/chips often seen on the majority of Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculptures offered at public auction or on eBay for so called "bargain" prices. Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd., also has the desirable Jeff Koons Red & Blue Balloon Dog Sculpture Set of two, each in pristine condition, and contained in the original Publisher's Packing.

 

 

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