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Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jeff Koons

b. 1955


Poodle

incised with the signature, dated '91 and numbered 3/3 (on the underside)

polychromed wood

58.4 by 100.3 by 52.1 cm. 23 by 39½ by 20½ in.

Executed in 1991. This work is number 3 from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London (acquired from the artist)

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner

Carter Ratcliff, Rhonda Lieberman and Jo Anna Isaak, "Jeff Koons: Not for Repro," Artforum, vol. 30, no. 6, February 1992, p. 86

Susanne Weingarten, "König im Kitschland," Der Spiegel, no. 49, 30 November 1992, p. 289, illustration in colour of another example

Kenneth Baker, "The Message in Koons' Kitsch,'" San Francisco Chronicle, 10 December 1992

Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 1992, no. 29, p. 147, illustration in colour of another example

Robert Rosenblum and Jeff Koons, The Jeff Koons Handbook, London 1992, pp. 134-35, illustration in colour of another example

Burkhard Riemschneider, Jeff Koons: 30 Postcards, Cologne 1992, n.p., illustration in colour of another example

Exh. Cat., Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Virtual Reality, 1994, p. 9

Anon., “Jeff Koons: Very New Art,” Bijutsu Techno, vol. 47, no. 700, 1995, p. 222, illustration in colour of another example

Alexandro Melo, “Les enjeux d’une collection portugaise,” L'ŒIL, no. 488, September 1997, p. 78, illustrated in colour (installation view from Sintra, Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo, The Berardo Collection, 1997)

José Berardo, Francisco Capelo and Sarah Wilson, et al., The Berardo Collection, Sintra 1996, no. 158, illustration in colour of another example

Ken Hoffman, "Dog Art," Houston Chronicle, vol. 105, issue no. 346, 24 September 2006, illustration of another example on the front cover

Hans Werner Holzwarth, Ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2007, p. 363, illustration in colour of another example

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Daimler Art Collection, Blitzen-Benz Bang - Daimler Art Collection: Mixed Media, Sculptures, Commissioned Works, 2009, p. 314

Dr. Josef Becker, “Jeff Koons' zuckersüße Schweinereien,” Bild, 20 June 2012, p. 6, illustrated in colour (installation view from Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, 2012)

Anon., "Jeff Koons' 'The Painter' and 'The Sculptor' Debut At Two Frankfurt Galleries," Huffington Post, 20 June 2012

Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, “Jeff Koons: une histoire de goût,” Les Cahiers, January 2014, p. 51, illustration in colour of another example

Tom Simpson, “King of Pop: 35 years of Jeff Koons art-in-pictures,” The Guardian, 25 June 2014, illustration in colour of another example

Lorna Hall, “The Whitney Pulls Out All The Stops For Koons,” Mind, 23 July 2014, illustration in colour of another example

Jae-Su Kim, "A Magician of Creation and Destruction," Art in Asia, August 2014, illustration in colour of another example

Sarah Lookofsky, “Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,” Texte zur Kunst, no. 101, March 2016, p. 195, illustrated in colour (installation view from New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, 2015)

Sally Williams, "Jeff Koons on his 'wild years'... and going from penniless to the world's most expensive artist," The Telegraph, 20 April 2017, illustrated in colour (installation view from New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, 2014)

Rachel Rabbit White, “Jeff Loves Cicciolina: Looking Back at 'Made in Heaven',” Vice, Garage, 22 March 2019, illustrated in colour (installation view from New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, 2014)

Jeon Eun-ji, “Between geek and art, kitsch artist Jeff Koons,” Handmaker, 5 November 2021, illustration in colour of another example

Pedro Lapa, Ed., Coleção Berardo 1909-2019, Lisbon 2022, no. 452, p. 664, illustration in colour of another example

Lausanne, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain; Turin, Castello di Rivoli; Athens, Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art; Hamburg, Diechtorhallen and Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Post Human, June 1992 - October 1993 (another example exhibited)

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum and Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 1992 - April 1993, no. 56, p. 76, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Jeff Koons, December 1992 - October 1993, no. 54, p. 112, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Sintra, Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo, Novas Salas Pop, Fluxus, Foto-Realismo, June 1997 - February 1998 (another example exhibited)

Sintra, Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo, Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes, October 2000 - January 2001 (another example exhibited)

Sintra, Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo, Face-a–Face, October 2000 - April 2001 (another edition exhibited)

Sintra, Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo, Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca., April - September 2002, no. 31, p. 65, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art; Osaka, Daimaru Museum; Gunma, The Museum of Modern Art; Kochi, The Museum of Art; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art and Nagoya City Art Museum, Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection, November 2004 - October 2005 (another example exhibited)

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today, October 2006 - January 2007, no. 80, p. 94, illustrated in colour (present example)

Lisbon, Assembleia da República, 3D - The Berardo Collection at the Portugeuse Parliament, April - August 2007 (another example exhibited)

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May - September 2008, p. 77, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Lisbon, Museu Colecção Berardo, Arriscar o Real, June - September 2009 (another example exhibited)

Paris, Grand Palais, Beauté animale, March - July 2012, no. 41, p. 220, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June - September 2012, p. 160, illustrated in colour (present example)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Paris, The Centre Pompidou and Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 2014 - September 2015, no. 72, p. 124 (New York); no. 72, p. 132 (Paris) and no. 72, p. 128 (Bilbao), illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, November 2015 - January 2017, p. 67, illustrated at the residence of Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner and p. 90, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Sheffield, Chatsworth House, The Dog. A Celebration at Chatsworth, March - October 2019, p. 57, illustrated in colour (present example)

Bologna, Palazzo Albergati, Warhol & Friends: New York negli anni '80, September 2018 - February 2019, pp. 136-37, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Doha, Qatar Museums Gallery — Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 2021 - March 2022, pp. 99 and 220, illustrated in colour; p. 222, illustrated in colour (installation view from Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, 1992) and pp. 224-25, illustrated in colour (installation view from Derbyshire, Chatsworth House, The Dog. A Celebration at Chatsworth, 2019) (present example)