Mermaid Troll

stainless steel
20 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
52.1 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP 
1986


Mermaid Troll

Details

Mermaid Troll

stainless steel
20 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
52.1 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP 
1986

EXHIBITED: 

The Sonnabend Collection: Part II. Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal [May 11 – September 23, 2018]

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York [June 27- October 19, 2014] (Edition 2)

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

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]

Jeff Koons. Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France [September 30 - November 29, 1997]

Schlaf der Vernunft. Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany [February 21 - May 23, 1988] (Edition 3)

Group Show: Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman. Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York [October 8 – November 8, 1986]

LITERATURE: 

Antonella Valente, "Democratizzare l’arte attraverso l’acciaio: la rivoluzionaria mostra di Jeff Koons a Firenze," The Walk of Fame (Italy), January 11, 2022

Jeff Koons. Shine, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), pp. 21,90 (color ill. p. 91), p. 187 (color ill.)

Martin Holman, "Exhibition review: Jeff Koons. Shine at Palazzo Strozzi," The Florentine (Florence, Italy), November 18, 2021

The Sonnabend Collection. Saskatoon: Remai Modern: 2019, pp. 140-143 (color ill.)

Florence Dartois, "1997, Jeff Koons : "Pour moi, l'art est de l'ordre du rationnel"," Institut National d l'Audiovisuel (France), April 10, 2019

João Ribas, The Sonnabend Collection: Half a Century of European and American Art. Part II, exh. cat. (Porto: Serralves, 2018), p. 114, p. 117 (color ill.)

Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of The Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), pp. 62-63

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. 96 (color ill.), p. 302

Rothkopf, Scott [supervised by Bernard Blistène]. Jeff Koons: La Retrospective. France: Centre Pompidou, 2014, p. 100 (not exhibited).

Peter Schjeldahl, "Selling Points," The New Yorker, July 7 -14, 2014, p. 93

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. 92 (color ill.), p. 287

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. 100 (color ill.), p. 299

Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasskamp, 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. 178 (color ill. p. 179), p. 192;

Architectural Digest (Italy), May 2011, p. 162 (color ill.)

40 Years Kaldor Public Art Projects, ed. by Sophie Forbat, exh. cat. (Sydney: John Kaldor, 2009), p. 166

"Jeff Koons" Taschen, 2009, p. 221 (color ill.)

Holzwarth, Hans Werner, ed. Jeff Koons. Cologne 2008, p. 223 (color ill.)

Woltmann, Marit, ed. Jeff Koons Retrospektiv. Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004, p. 58.

Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), p. 58 (color ill.), p. 147

"Allegria per gli ospiti." Architectural Digest [Italy] May 2001, p. 162

Nicolas Bourriaud, "Jeff Koons Ingenieur du desir," (Text in French) Beaux Arts (France), September 1997, p. 44 (color ill.)

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koons, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 1997), p. 48 (color ill. 49), p. 83

The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 158

Jeff Koons: 30 Postcards (Cologne: Taschen, 1992)

Angelika Muthesius, Jeff Koons, (Cologne, Taschen 1992), p. 93 (color ill.)

OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, exh. cat. (Newport Beach, Calif.: Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1990), p. 95 (ill.), p. 173

Germano Celant, Unexpressionism: Art Beyond the Contemporary (New York, Rizzoli, 1988), pp. 228-229,341 (color ill.)

Dirk Schwarze, "Schlaf der Vernunft," Kunstforum International No. 94, Apr/May 1988, p. 249 (installation view)

Allan Schwartzman, "Corporate Culture: The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc., no. 12, December 1987, p. 141

Robert Kleyn, "Nuovi Concetti," (text in Italian) Tema Celeste (Milan), January/March 1987, p. 60

Jeff Koons, "A Text by Jeff Koons," Spazio Umano (Milan), no. 4 (October-December 1986), p. 126 (ill.)

Gunther Forg, Robert Gober, Alex Hutte, Jon Kessler, Hubert Kiecol, Jeff Koons, Meuser, Heimo Zobernig (Cologne: Galerie Max Hetzler, November 1986), p. 15 (ill.), p. 20