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Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jeff Koons

b. 1955


French Coach Couple

stainless steel

43.2 by 39.4 by 29.8 cm. 17 by 15½ by 11¾ in.

Executed in 1986. This work is the artist’s proof aside from the edition of 3.

The Artist

Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London

Acquired from the above in 1996 by the present owner

Roberta Smith, “Art: 4 Young East Villagers at Sonnabend,” The New York Times, 24 October 1986, p. C30

Giancarlo Politi, “Luxury and Desire. An Interview with Jeff Koons,” Flash Art, issue no. 132, February-March 1987, p. 72, illustration in colour of another example

Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, “Radical Consumption and the New Poverty,” New Observations, vol. 51, October 1987, p. 6, illustration of another example

Allan Schwartzman, "Corporate Culture: The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc., December 1987, p. 141, illustration in colour of another example

Roberta Smith, “Rituals of Consumption,” Art in America, vol. 76, issue no. 5, May 1988, p. 170, illustration in colour of another example

Corinne Robins, "Goods and No-So-Goods: 60s/80s Sculpture Parallels," Arts Magazine, vol. 62, issue no. 10, June 1988, p. 64

Klaus Kertess, "Bad," Parkett, vol. 19, 1989, p. 42, illustration in colour of another example

Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Horn of Plenty: Sixteen Artists from NYC, 1989, pp. 27 and 100, illustration in colour of another example

Angelika Muthesius, Ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 1992, no. 4, p. 90, illustration in colour of another example

Robert Rosenblum and Jeff Koons, The Jeff Koons Handbook, London 1992, p. 158

Exh. Cat., Seattle Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, 1999, p. 201

Hans Werner Holzwarth, Ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2008, p. 223, illustration in colour of another example and p. 236, illustrated in colour (installation view from Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, 1988)

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jeff Koons: Celebration, 2008-09, no. 2, pp. 37 and 99, illustration in colour of another example

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and travelling), Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, 2014-15, p. 96, illustrated in colour (installation view from Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, 1988)

Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch, Koons, Ray, 2014-15, p. 73, illustrated in colour (installation view from Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, 1988) and p. 74, illustration of another example

Hans Werner Holzwarth, Ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2015, p. 40, illustrated in colour (installation view from Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, 1988)

Marta Papini and Michele Robecchi, Eds., Maurizio Cattelan: Index, Milan 2021, p. 200, illustration in colour of another example

New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Group Show: Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, October - November 1986 (another example exhibited)

Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, February - May 1988, no. 8, p. 155, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Newport Harbor Art Museum, OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, April - June 1990, p. 86, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)