Monkeys (Chair)

polychromed aluminum, wood, and straw 
112 x 23 x 29 inches
284.5 x 58.4 x 73.7 cm 
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP 
2003


Monkeys (Chair)

Details

Monkeys (Chair)

polychromed aluminum, wood, and straw 
112 x 23 x 29 inches
284.5 x 58.4 x 73.7 cm 
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP 
2003

Monkeys (Chair)

EXHIBITED: 

Forever Now. Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine [May 19, 2012 - January 2013] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: The Sculptor. Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt, Germany [June 20 - September 23, 2012] (Edition 3)

Jeff Koons: Popeye Sculpture. Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France [September 16 - November 20, 2010] (Edition 2)

Jeff Koons: Popeye Series. The Serpentine Gallery, London, England [July 2 - September 13, 2009] (Edition 2)

Jeff Koons: Retrospective. Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland [January 28 – April 10, 2005]

Jeff Koons: Retrospective. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway [September 4 – December 12, 2004]

Popeye. Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York [November 8 - December 19, 2003]

LITERATURE: 

Michelle Young, "9 Places to See the Work of Jeff Koons In NYC, Past and Present," Untapped Cities, May 17, 2017, online (color ill., Lever House installation).

Sarah Thornton, "Divine Intervention," Artforum, June 22, 2012, online (color ill., partial view, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation).

Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasscamp, Babette Babich, and Vinzenz Brinkmann, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, eds. Vinzenz Brinkmann, Matthias Ulrich, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), p. 108 (color ill. p. 109), p. 188.

Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple," (Text in French) 20/27, no. 5 (2011), (color ill. p. 146).

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), p. 7 (color ill. 7, work in progress at studio), p. 31 (color ill. p. 25).

Anna Sansom and Lynn Lee, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Mandarin) Modern China Weekly (China), 2010, (ill. p. c109).

Mark Rappolt, "Profile: Jeff Koons," ArtReview, Issue 34, September 2009, p. 94.

Children's Book of Art (London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2009), (color ill. p. 130, at studio).

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), p. 123, as “Monkey (Chairs).”

Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (foreword and conversation), Frederic Tuten, Arthur C. Danto, and Dorothea von Hantelmann, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, eds. Kathryn Rattee and Melissa Larner, exh. cat. (London: Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books, 2009), (color ill. p. 20), p. 51, p. 76.

Luther Blissett, "Les obsessions majeures de Koons," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2008, (color ill. p. 33).

Kelly Devine Thomas, "The Selling of Jeff Koons," ARTnews 104, no. 5 (May 2005), (color ill. pp. 114-115, work in progress at studio).

Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: An interview by the Readers fo Flash Art", Flash Art (Milan) 38 (January/February 2005), p. 85.

Valentina Agostinis, "Jeff Koons," Arte (November/ December 2004), (color ill. p. 65, work in progress at studio, partial view).

Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), p. 115 (color ill. p. 114), p. 149.

"Don't Miss...," Time Out New York, no. 427, December 4-11, 2003, (color ill., p. 66, Sonnabend Gallery installation).