Lips

oil on canvas 
120 x 168 inches 
304.8 x 426.7 cm 
© Jeff Koons
2000


Lips

Details

Lips

oil on canvas 
120 x 168 inches 
304.8 x 426.7 cm 
© Jeff Koons
2000

EXHIBITED: 

Jeff Koons: Lost in America. Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Doha, Qatar [November 21, 2021 - March 31, 2022]

Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal. Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York [March 10 - April 21, 2018]

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York [June 27- October 19, 2014]

Jeff Koons: The Painter. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany [June 20 - September 23, 2012]

Jeff Koons. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [May 31 - September 21, 2008]

Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York [July 19 - September 3, 2002]

Easyfun-Ethereal. 25th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil [March 23 - June 2, 2002]

Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal. Guggenheum Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain [October 2, 2001 - January 20, 2002]

Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal. Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland [July 28 - September 12, 2001]

Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal. Deutsch Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany [October 27, 2000 – January 14, 2001]

LITERATURE: 

Jeff Koons. Lost in America, exh. cat., ed. Massimiliano Gioni (Milan: Skira, 2021).

Mary Dellas, "Jeff Koons’s ‘Easyfun-Ethereal’ Now on Display at the Gagosian Gallery," The Cut, March 12, 2018, online (color ill.).

Jake Nevins, "Jeff Koons 'I Think I'll Always Keep Feeling Somewhat Like An Outsider," The Guardian (UK), March 9, 2018, online (color ill.).

Clara McCarthy, "Jeff Koons Exhibit To Open In Chelsea," Patch, March 6, 2018, online (color ill.).

Mark Westall, "New Jeff Koons “Easyfun-Ethereal ” exhibition to open," FAD Magazine (UK), February 14, 2018, online (color ill.).

Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 179 (color ill. p. 179, pl. 106), p. 181 (color ill. p. 181, fig. 8, Schirn Kunsthalle installation), p. 303.

Sonya Liu, "Art that Goes Pop," (Text in Mandarin) Kempinski (China), Winter 2014, (color ill. p. 29).

Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012, (October 2014), (color ill. p. 20-21), (color ill. p. 38).

Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 167 (color ill. p. 167, pl. 105), p. 289.

Bernard Blistène, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New York and Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 175 (color ill. p. 175, pl. 175), p. 301.

Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (Thames & Hudson, 2014), (color ill.).

Isabelle Lefort, "Jeff Koons Un Américain à Beaubourg," (Text in French) La Tribune & Moi, no. 29 (December 14, 2012), (color ill.).

Naomi Campbell, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Russian) Interview (Russia) (November 2012), (color ill. pp. 150-151).

"Jeff Koons," ed. Alison McDonald, Gagosian Quarterly (September-October 2012), (color ill. pp. 106-107, Schirn Kunsthalle installation, partial view).

Allison Meier, "Shows That Matter- Concurrent Exhibitions of Jeff Koons Come to Kunsthalles Across Frankfurt," Artinfo, August 13, 2012, (color ill.).

“Koons Summer in Frankfurt – SCHIRN AND LIEBIEGHAUS” Huffington Post, June 20, 2012, online.

Max Hollein, Scott Rothkopf, Joachim Pissarro, Matthias Ulrich, and Jeff Fraiman, Jeff Koons: The Painter, eds. Matthias Ulrich, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), p. 120 (color ill. pp. 124-125), p. 183.

Monopol: Special Jeff Koons. Berlin: Juno Kunstverlag GmbH, 2012, (color ill. p. 4).

Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), (color ill. cover, detail), p. 89 (color ill. pp. 88-89), p. 94 (color ill. p. 95), p. 115.

"Head to Head with Stella McCartney," Interview with Jeff Koons and Stella McCartney. Wallpaper (United Kingdom), October 2007, p. 345 (color ill. p. 345).

Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006).

Julie Brener, "Art Talk: Those Lips, Those Eyes," ArtNews, December 2005, (color ill. p. 40).

Cheryl Kaplan, "Door to Door: A Visit to Jeff Koons' Studio," db-art.info, June 2005, online.

Wolfgang Ullrich, "Beyond All Borders: Kitsch in Art," The Swarovski Kaleidoscope 02, 2005, (color ill. p. 23).

Elisabeth Couturier, "Jeff Koons: Son kitsch vaut des millions!" Paris Match (Paris), January 2003, (color ill. pp. 4-5).

Peter Bothum, "Brining it all back home," York Daily Record, September 24, 2002, p. 3d.

"Jeff Koons Easyfun-Ethereal," @Guggenheim, The Guide to the Guggenheim Museum, June-August 2002, (color ill. p. 3).

Chiara Mariani, "Scandaloso Koons," (text in Italian) La Repubblica delle Donne (March 2002), (color ill. pp. 87-88, work in progress at studio), (color ill. p. 90).

Alan Jones, "Jeff Koons," Interview. Tema Celeste, no. 88/89, 2002, (color ill. p. 61).

Alan Jones, "Jeff Koons," Interview. Tema Celeste Contemporary Art (November-December 2001), (color ill. p. 39).

Gloria Vallese, "Classico Americano Jeff Koons," Arte, no. 339 (Italy), November 2001, (color ill. pp. 104-105).

Laura Tansini, "Mai dire Kitsch...Sedurre con le immagini," (Text in Italian) ARS, no. 45 (September 2001), (color ill. cover), (color ill. p. 86).

Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, no. 487, (March 2001), (color ill. pp. 230-231), (color ill. pp. 232-233, detail, work in progress).

Matthew Collings, "Jeff Koons" in Writers on Artists in association with Modern Painters (New York: DK Publishing Inc., 2001), p. 48 (color ill. p. 49).

Women and Finance, (Deutsche Bank, 2001), (color ill. p. 31).

Rolf-E Breuer, Thomas Krens, David Sylvester, and Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons Easyfun-Ethereal, eds. Lisa Dennison, Robert Rosenblum, Craig Houser, exh. cat. (Berlin and New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2000), p. 58 (color ill. p. 59).