Moustache

polychromed aluminum, wrought iron, and coated steel chain 
36 3/8 x 75 1/2 x 21 inches, plus chain at variable length
92.4 x 191.8 x 53.3 cm, plus chain at variable length
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP 
2003


Moustache

Details

Moustache

polychromed aluminum, wrought iron, and coated steel chain 
36 3/8 x 75 1/2 x 21 inches, plus chain at variable length
92.4 x 191.8 x 53.3 cm, plus chain at variable length
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP 
2003

EXHIBITED: 

Moustache by Jeff Koons. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia [September 25 – May 29, 2011] (Edition AP)

Jeff Koons: Popeye Sculpture. Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France [September 16- November 20, 2010] (Edition 3)

Jeff Koons: Popeye Series. The Serpentine Gallery, London, England [July 2 - September 13, 2009] (Edition 3)

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]

LITERATURE: 

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. 192 (color ill. p. 192, fig. 2, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation).

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. 180 (color ill. p. 180, fig. 2, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation).

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. 188 (color ill. p. 188, fig. 2, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation).

“History's Best Mustaches - Jeff Koons's Suspended Wrought Iron 'Moustache'," Artinfo, November 27, 2012, (color ill.).

“Jeff Koons, en plaine form," Le Figaro (France), June 4, 2012, online.

Holger Liebs, "Mr. Koons?" Monopol: Special Jeff Koons. (Berlin: Juno Kunstverlag GmbH, 2012), (color ill. p. 4, work in progress at studio).

Anna Sansom and Lynn Lee, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Mandarin) Modern China Weekly (China), 2010, (ill. p. c152).

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), p. 31 (color ill. pp. 26-27).

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. pp. 24-25), p. 76.

Germano Celant, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Italian) Interni, no. 4 (April 2004), (color ill. p. 90).

Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), p. 70 (color ill. p. 70, detail, model at studio), p. 119 (color ill. pp. 118-119), p. 134, p. 149.

Joe La Placa, "Jeff Koons: The Candyman Can", ArtReview April 2003, (color ill. p. 47, work in progress at studio).