French Coach Couple
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)
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