Inflatable Flowers (Short Pink, Tall Purple)

vinyl, mirrors, and acrylic 
16 x 25 x 19 inches 
40.6 x 63.5 x 48.3 cm 
© Jeff Koons
1979


Inflatable Flowers (Short Pink, Tall Purple)

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Inflatable Flowers (Short Pink, Tall Purple)

vinyl, mirrors, and acrylic 
16 x 25 x 19 inches 
40.6 x 63.5 x 48.3 cm 
© Jeff Koons
1979

EXHIBITED: 

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

Jeff Koons. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis [December 1992 - October 1993]

LITERATURE: 

Tadashi Kobayashi, "Essay (no. 3) on Kokufu Osamu’s, Engine in the Water," (Text in Japanese) Bulletin of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art , no. 14 (March 25, 2020), p. 23 (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. 19, p. 45 (color ill.), p. 301

"Plastic Fantastic," (Text in German) Kunstbeeld, De Liefde, no. 11, 2014, p. 36 (color ill.)

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. 17, p. 41 (color ill.), p. 233, p. 285

Thomas Crow, "American Idol," Review of Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014), p. 314 illustrated.September 2014, p. 310 (color ill.)

Blake Gopnik, "Jeff Koons: A Genius from Day One," Artnet, August 18, 2014

A.M.B., "The world according to Jeff," The Economist (London), July 2, 2014

Stephanie Murg, "Jeff Koons' Technicolor takeover of the Whitney Museum," Wallpaper (United Kingdom), June 26 2014

Andrew Russeth, "Watch the Throne," Gallerist, June 26, 2014

Van Leeuwen, Anna. “Plastic Fantastic.” Kunstbeeld, July 2009, p. 36

Canarutto, Sarah Cosulich. Jeff Koons (Supercontemporanea Series). Milan, 2006, p. 16-17, illustrated in color.

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

The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 149

John R. Lane (foreword), John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau (exhibition history and bibliography), Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), p. 10, p. 37 (color ill.), p. 131