Two Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series, Wilson Supershot), 1985

glass, steel, distilled water, and two basketballs
62 3/4 x 36 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches
159.4 x 93.3 x 33.7 cm
Edition of 2
© Jeff Koons
1985


Two Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series, Wilson Supershot)

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Two Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series, Wilson Supershot), 1985

glass, steel, distilled water, and two basketballs
62 3/4 x 36 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches
159.4 x 93.3 x 33.7 cm
Edition of 2
© Jeff Koons
1985

EXHIBITED: 

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France [November 26, 2014 - April 27, 2015]

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

Distillation to Complication: 40 Years of Rule Based Art, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, New York [February – March 2005]

Play's the Thing. Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art, City University of New York, Graduate Centre Art Gallery, New York, New York [May – July 2001]

1987 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York [April 10 - July 5, 1987]

LITERATURE: 

Daniela Salvioni, "Interview with McCollum and Koons," Flash Art, December 1986/January 1987, pp. 67.

Gary Indiana, "Another Review of the Whitney," Village Voice, April 28, 1987, (ill. p. 87).

Mary Ann Marger, "A Glimpse at the State of American Arts," St. Petersburg Times, June 7, 1987, p. E-3.

Jane Addams Allen, "Chilly Cynicism a Portent of Trouble," Insight Magazine, June 15, 1987, 59.

Grace Glueck, "New Art Trend's Name: 'Neo-Geo'...Maybe," The New York Times, July 6, 1987, p. 14.

Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Radical Consumption and the New Poverty," New Observations Issue 51 (October 1987), p. 15. 

Alan G. Artner, "Market Valued What Jeff Koons' Work Says About the Art World," The Chicago Tribune, July 31,1988, (ill. p.16).

Arthur C. Danto, "Art: The 1989 Whitney Biennial," The Nation, June 1989, p. 790.

Michael Compton, "Pop Art II -- Jeff Koons & Co," Art & Design, July 1989, (color ill. p. 44).

Silvia Robertazzi, "Jeff Koons: NY Art Business," (text in English and Italian), 1990, (ill., captioned Two Ball 50/50 Container).

"An Evening with Jeff Koons," The Smithsonian 18, no. 7, March 1990 p. 12.

Jenny Attiyeh, "Artrepreneurs," Culture Concrete, Summer 1991, p. 11.

Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, (Cologne: Taschen, 1992), p. 165.

Jeff Koons and Robert Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d’Offay Gallery and Thames and Hudson, 1992), p. 156.

Frank Motz, Play's the Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001) (ill. p. 11).

Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, (Cologne: Taschen 2008), pp. 148, 152, 156, (color ill. p. 157), 585.

Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), pp. 6, 7, 22 (color ill. p. 22), 89.

Fondazione Prada, Ca' Corner Della Regina (Milan, Progetto Prada Arte, 2011), pp. 99, (color ill. p. 99), 389.

Artprice Contemporary Art Market: The Artprice Annual Report 2007/2008, Artprice, 2008 (color ill. p. 35), (color ill. p. 137).

Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Portfolio of the Exhibition (France: Centre Pompidou, 2014) (color ill. p. 40).

Michaël Amy, "A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing," Sculpture 34, no. 2 (March 2015), p. 58.

Udo Kittlemann, Sammlung Marx: 40 Werke, exh. cat. (Berlin: Edition Cantz, 2019), pp. 110-111.