Gazing Ball (Belvedere Torso)

plaster and glass 
71 1/2 x 29 7/8 x 35 1/8 inches
181.6 x 75.9 x 89.2 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2013


Gazing Ball (Belvedere Torso)

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Gazing Ball (Belvedere Torso)

plaster and glass 
71 1/2 x 29 7/8 x 35 1/8 inches
181.6 x 75.9 x 89.2 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2013

Gazing Ball (Belvedere Torso)

plaster and glass 
71 1/2 x 29 7/8 x 35 1/8 inches
181.6 x 75.9 x 89.2 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2013

EXHIBITED: 

Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom [February 7 - June 9, 2019] (Edition AP)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York [June 27 - October 19, 2014] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball. David Zwirner Gallery, New York, New York [May 8 - June 22, 2013] (Edition 1)

LITERATURE: 

Franca Toscano, "Jeff Koons dialogues with antiquity at Ashmolean Museum" Blouin Artinfo, March 2019 (color ill.).

Roisin McVeigh, "Reflecting on why the art world loves to hate Jeff Koons," Dazed, February 12, 2019, online (color ill.).

Philip Hensher, "'It is blazingly hideous. I rather recommend it.' The Ashmolean's Jeff Koons show is worth a visit," Daily Mail (UK), February 9, 2019, online (color ill.).

"Jeff Koons at The Ashmolean," Ashmolean Museum (UK), February 5, 2019, (color ill.).

Hadley Freeman, "'Wow, $91m!' – Jeff Koons on blowup dogs, record prices and his row with Paris," The Guardian (UK), February 4, 2019, online (color ill.).

Jonathan Jones, "Koons apes the old masters and robots invade Edinburgh – the week in art," The Guardian (UK), February 1, 2019, online (color ill.).

Xa Sturgis and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, exh. cat. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2019), p. 25 (color ill. p. 22, detail), p. 61 (color ill. p. 60).

Peter Aspen, "Jeff Koons: ‘I don’t believe in perfection’," Financial Times (UK), December 7, 2018, online (color ill.).

Ashleigh Kane, "A major Jeff Koons exhibition is coming to the UK," Dazed (UK), October 26, 2018, online (color ill.).

"Jeff Koons to display artworks at Oxford exhibition," BBC (UK), October 26, 2018, online (color ill.).

Fionnuala McHugh, "Hong Kong-bound artist Sarah Morris, showing in Beijing, talks about films and the Olympics," South China Morning Post (China), March 24, 2018, online (color ill. work at studio).

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. 217 (color ill. p. 217, pl. 131), p. 303.

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).

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. 213 (color ill. p. 213, pl. 130), p. 302.

Francesco Bonami, Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball, ed. Louise Sorensen, exh. cat. (New York: David Zwirner, 2014), p. 58 (color ill. p. 59), (color ill. p. 61), (color ill. pp. 72-73, David Zwirner installation), p. 75

Alison M. Gingeras, "Instant Classic", Artforum 52, no. 1 (September 2013) (color ill. p. 146).