STATUARY

Bob Hope
1986

stainless steel
17 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches 
43.2 x 14 x 14 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Group Show: Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, October 8 – November 8, 1986 (edition 1)

    Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, February 21 – May 23, 1988 (edition 2)

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Image World: Art and Media Culture, November 8, 1989 – February 18, 1990

    Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, April 8 – June 24, 1990

    Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 28, 1992 – January 3, 1993; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22 – February 28, 1993; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993

    San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993

    Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, September 30 – November 29, 1997

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 4 – December 12, 2004; Helsinki, Helsinki City Art Museum, January 28 – April 10, 2005 (edition 1) 

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (AP)

     Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (AP)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (AP)

    San Diego, Timken Museum of Art, Metonymies: A Dialogue with Twentieth-Century Works form the Sonnabend Collection, February 7 – May 5, 2019 (edition 1)

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 – March 31, 2022 (edition 1)

  • Jeff Koons, "A Text by Jeff Koons," Spazio Umano (Milan), no. 4 (October-December 1986) (ill. p. 86)

    Peter Schjeldahl, "A Visit to the Salon of Autumn 1986," Art in America 74, no. 12. (December 1986), p. 16

    Kay Larson, “Masters of Hype,” New York, November 1986, p. 100

    Dan Cameron, "NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection," exh. cat. (Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1987), p. 11

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

    Giancarlo Politi, "Luxury and Desire. An Interview with Jeff Koons," Flash Art (Milan), no. 132 (February/March 1987), p. 76

    Allan Schwartzman, "The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc, December 1987 (color ill. p. 139)

    Germano Celant, Unexpressionism: Art Beyond the Contemporary (New York, Rizzoli, 1988) (color ill. pp. 332-333, color ill. p. 341)

    Dirk Schwarze, "Schlaf der Vernunft," Kunstforum International, no. 94 (April/May 1988), p. 249

    Peter Plagens, "International Shows: Under Western Eyes," Art in America 77, no. 1 (January 1989), p. 36

    Image World, Art and Media Culture, ed. by Marvin Heiferman, Lisa Phillips, and John G. Hanhardt, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989) (ill. p. 69)

    Donald Kuspit, "Breakfast of Duchampians," Contemporanea 2, no. 3 (May 1989), (color ill. p. 69)

    Nick Jenkins, "Mr. Koons," Tatler, November 1989, p. 146

    OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, exh. cat. (Newport Beach, Calif.: Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1990) (color ill. pp. 96-97)

    Jane Greenstein, "Double Vision: Two Court Battles Decide When Appropriation is Inappropriate," Art & Antiques 7, no. 1 (January 1990), p. 23

    William Wilson, "Sculpture Show Lends Meaning to Emptiness," Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1990

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), pp. 20, 76, 158

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 21 (color ill. p. 95)

    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), pp. 12, 87, 132 (color ill. p. 87)

    David Littlejohn, "Who is Jeff Koons and why are people saying such terrible things about him?" ARTnews 92, no. 4 (April 1993), p. 92

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993)

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), pp. 47, 99 (color ill. p. 46)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koons, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 1997), pp. 54, 83 (color ill. p. 51)

    Robert Rosenblum, On Modern American Art: Selected Essays (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999), pp. 331, 334

    Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, no. 487 (March 2001), p. 271

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003) (color ill. p. 56)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004) (color ill. p. 60)

    Wendy E. Solomon, "Koons: the artist matures," York Sunday News, December 10, 2005

    Calvin Tomkins, "The Turnaround Artist," The New Yorker, April 23, 2007, p. 64

    Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth, (Cologne: Taschen, 2015) (color ill. p. 40)

    John Caldwell, This is About Who We Are, ed. by Thea Westreich (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 2008), p. 189

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 23, 52, 114 (color ill. pp. 23, 52)

    "Jeff Koons at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago," artdaily.org, March 18, 2008, online

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

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), p. 120

    Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel, Francois Pinault, Edouard Papet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elena Guena, Laurent Le Bon, Michel Houllebecq, Jeff Koons: Versailles, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions Xavier Barral, 2009), pp. 136, 144

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple," (Text in French) 20/27 no. 5 (2011) (color ill. p. 136)

    Bill Powers, Interviews with Artists, (New York: Gagosian, 2013), p. 278

    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), pp. 20, 21, 90, 287 (color ill. p. 90)

    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), pp. 24, 26, 98, 299 (color ill. p. 98)

    Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. p. 130)

    Rachel Harrison, "Thanks for the Memories," Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014) (color ill. p. 317)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons, l'art gonflé!" Vanity Fair (France) (October 2014), (color ill. p. 135)

    Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2015) (color ill. p. 40)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), p. 5

    Agnes Berecz, 100 Years 100 Artworks: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art (Munich: Prestel Publishing, 2019), p. 156

    Florence Dartois, "1997, Jeff Koons : "Pour moi, l'art est de l'ordre du rationnel"," Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (France), April 10, 2019 https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/1997-jeff-koons-pour-moi-l-art-est-de-l-ordre-du-rationnel/

    Jeff Koons. Shine, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), p. 173

     Jeff Koons. Lost in America, exh. cat., ed. Massimiliano Gioni (Milan: Skira, 2021), p. 66 (color ill. p. 67)

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024)

Cape Codder Troll
1986

stainless steel
21 x 8 1/2 x 9 inches 
53.3 x 21.6 x 22.9 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Group Show: Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, October 8 – November 8, 1986 (edition 1)

    Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, February 21 – May 23, 1988 (edition 1)

    Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, April 8 – June 24, 1990 (edition 3) 

    Portland Art Museum; Portland, Oregon Art Institute, Object Lessons, May – July 1991 (edition 3)

    Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, September 30 – November 29, 1997 (edition 3)

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 4 – December 12, 2004; Helsinki, Helsinki City Art Museum, January 28 – April 10, 2005

    New York, Chelsea Art Museum, The Incomplete, October 2, 2007 – January 17, 2008 (edition 3)

    Porto, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, The Sonnabend Collection: Part II, May 11 – September 23, 2018 (AP)

    Saskatoon, Remai Modern, The Sonnabend Collection, May 31 – September 29, 2019 (AP)

    Florence, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Jeff Koons. Shine, October 2, 2021 – January 31, 2022 (AP)

  • Roberta Smith, “Art: 4 Young East Villagers at Sonnabend,” The New York Times, October 24, 1986, p. C30

    Jeff Koons, "A Text by Jeff Koons," Spazio Umano (Milan),no. 4 (October-December 1986) (ill. p. 87, Sonnabend installation; ill. p. 104)

    Gunther Forg, Robert Gober, Alex Hutte, Jon Kessler, Hubert Kiecol, Jeff Koons, Meuser, Heimo Zobernig (Cologne: Galerie Max Hetzler, 1986), pp. 14, 20 (ill. p. 14)

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

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons," (text in Italian) Flash Art (Milan), February/March 1987, p. 46

    Achille Bonito-Oliva, "Neo-America," Flash Art, no.138 (January/February 1988), p. 64 (color ill. p. 64)

    Roberta Smith, "Rituals of Consumption," Art in America 76 no. 5 (May 1988), p. 170 (color ill. p. 170)

    Achille Bonito-Oliva, "Mannerist Simulation," in Super Art (Milan: G. Politi, 1988), pp. 6, 46, 109

    Schlaf der Vernunft, exh. cat. (Kassel: documenta und Museum Fridericianum-GmBH, 1988), p. 223

    Peter Schjeldahl, “Jeff Koons,” in OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, ed. Paul Schimmel, exh. cat. (Newport Beach: Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1990), pp. 94, 173 (ill. p. 94)

    Achille Bonito-Oliva, "Ainsi L'etat de l'Art (et de la critique aussi)," (text in French) New Art International (Paris), April/May 1990, p. 30, image caption inaccurately lists Cape Codder Troll for Mermaid Troll reproduction

    Quindicesima Biennale Internazionale del Bronzetto Piccola Scultura Padova, exh. cat. (Milan: Electa, 1991), p. 87 (ill. p. 87)

     Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 92, 167 (color ill. p. 92)

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

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koons, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 1997), pp. 50, 83 (color ill. p. 51)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 59, 147 (color ill. p. 59)

    Irene Gludowacz, Susanne van Hagen, and Philippe Chancel, A Passion for Art: Art Collectors and Their Houses, Foreword by Pierre Berge (London: Thames & Hudson, 2005) (color ill. p. 216, view in mirror reflection; color ill. p. 217, partial view)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), pp. 220, 586 (color p. 220)

    William T. Georgis, "Allegria per gli Ospiti," Architectural Digest (Italy), May 2011 (color ill. 162)

    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. 181 (color ill. p. 181, fig. 10, private residence 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. 189 (color ill. p. 189, fig. 10, private home installation)

    Daniel Belasco, Dick Polich Transforming Metal into Art (New Paltz, New York: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, 2014), pp. 72, 73 (color ill. p. 73)

    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. 193 (color ill. p. 193, fig. 20, private residence installation)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 39 (color ill. p. 39)

    João Ribas, The Sonnabend Collection: Half a Century of European and American Art. Part II, exh. cat. (Porto: Serralves, 2018), p. 114 (color ill. p. 116)

    Florence Dartois, "1997, Jeff Koons : "Pour moi, l'art est de l'ordre du rationnel"," Institut National d l'Audiovisuel (France), April 10, 2019 https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/1997-jeff-koons-pour-moi-l-art-est-de-l-ordre-du-rationnel/

    Lynn McMaster, The Sonnabend Collection, exh. cat. (Saskatoon: Remai Modern: 2019) (color ill. p. 140-142)

    Martin Holman, "Exhibition review: Jeff Koons. Shine at Palazzo Strozzi," The Florentine (Florence, Italy), November 18, 2021 (color ill. Palazzo Strozzi installation) https://www.theflorentine.net/2021/11/18/exhibition-review-jeff-koons-shine-at-palazzo-strozzi/

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), pp. 21, 89 (color ill. p. 88, cat. 10; color ill. p. 187)

    Antonella Valente, "Democratizzare l’arte attraverso l’acciaio: la rivoluzionaria mostra di Jeff Koons a Firenze," The Walk of Fame (Italy), January 11, 2022 (color ill. Palazzo Strozzi installation) https://www.thewalkoffame.it/blog/democratizzare-larte-attraverso-lacciaio-la-rivoluzionaria-mostra-di-jeff-koons-a-firenze/

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024), p. 10

Doctor’s Delight
1986

stainless steel
11 x 6 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches 
27.9 x 17.1 x 14.6 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

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

    Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, February 21 – May 23, 1988 (edition 1)

    Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, April 8 – June 24, 1990

    San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993 (edition 2) 

    Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 28, 1992 – January 3, 1993; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22 – February 28, 1993; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993 (edition 1)

    London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Jeff Koons: A Survey 1981-1994, June 11 – July 30, 1994

    Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, September 30 – November 29, 1997

    London, Serpentine Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, Give and Take, January 30 – April 1, 2001 

    Greenwich, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, The Great American Nude, June 15 – September 8, 2002 (edition 3)

     New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (edition 1)

  • Roberta Smith, “Art: 4 Young East Villagers at Sonnabend,” The New York Times, October 24, 1986, p. C30

    Allan Schwartzman, "Corporate Culture: The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc., no. 12 (December 1987), p.139 (color ill. p. 139) 

    Roberta Smith, "Rituals of Consumption," Art in America 76, no. 5 (May 1988), p. 170 (color ill. p. 170) 

    Klaus Ottman, "Interview: Jeff Koons," Journal of Contemporary Art 1, no. 1 (Spring 1988)

    Germano Celant, Unexpressionism: Art Beyond the Contemporary (New York, Rizzoli, 1988), (color ill. p. 336-337, detail; color ill. p. 341)

    Schlaf der Vernunft, exh. cat. (Kassel: documenta und Museum Fridericianum-GmBH, 1988), p. 223

    Peter Schjeldahl, “Jeff Koons,” in OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, ed. Paul Schimmel, exh. cat. (Newport Beach: Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1990), p. 173 (color ill. p. 92-93)

    Enrico R. Comi, “Conversations with Leo Castelli,” in Human Space, January 1, 1991, p. 98 (ill. p. 98)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 90, 167 (color ill. p. 90)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), pp. 78, 158 (color ill. p. 79)

    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), pp. 84, 132 (color ill. p. 84, pl. 34)

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), pp. 49 , 99(color ill. p. 48)

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), pp. 50, 112 (color ill. p. 50)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koons, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 1997), pp. 52, 83 (color ill. p. 53)

    Lisa G. Corrin, Give & Take, exh. cat. (London: Serpentine Gallery, 2001) (color ill. p. 24)

    The Great American Nude, exh. cat. (Greenwich: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 2002), p. 63 (color ill. p. 63)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), pp. 58, 147 (color ill. p. 59)

    Calvin Tomkins, "The Turnaround Artist," The New Yorker, April 23, 2007, p. 64

    Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel, Francois Pinault, Edouard Papet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elena Guena, Laurent Le Bon, Michel Houllebecq, Jeff Koons: Versailles, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions Xavier Barral, 2009), p. 136

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Wener Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 234 (color ill. p. 235)

    A.M.B., "The world according to Jeff," The Economist (London), July 2, 2014 (color ill.) http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/07/jeff-koons-whitney

    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), pp. 21, 26, 94, 287 (color ill. p. 94, pl. 51)

    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), pp. 26, 33, 102, 299 (color ill. p. 102, pl. 51)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 128, 130 (color ill. p. 130)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 128, 130, 292 (color ill. p. 130)

    Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective, ed. Bernard Blistène, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 26, 33, 102, 105, 106, 299, 304 (not exhibited)

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014), p. 75

    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), pp. 23, 29, 98, 302 (color ill. p. 98, pl. 51)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 40 (color ill. p. 40, Kassel installation)

    Florence Dartois, "1997, Jeff Koons : "Pour moi, l'art est de l'ordre du rationnel"," Institut National d l'Audiovisuel (France), April 10, 2019 https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/1997-jeff-koons-pour-moi-l-art-est-de-l-ordre-du-rationnel/

    Barbara Lane, Barbara Lane Interiors (New York: Pointed Leaf Press, 2020) (color ill. pp. 302-303, installation)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio

Flowers
1986

stainless steel
12 1/2 x 18 x 12 inches 
31.8 x 45.7 x 30.5 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

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

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: Works 1979-1988, July 1 – August 28, 1988 (Edition unknown, collection of Joseph McHugh)

    Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, February 21 – May 23, 1988

    Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art, The Binational, American Art in the Late ‘80s, German Art of the Late ‘80s, September 23 – November 27, 1988; Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Kunstsammlung Nordheim-Westfellen, Kunstvererin für dei Rheinlande und Westfallen, December 10, 1988 – January 22, 1989; Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, February 5 – March 27, 1989; Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein April 12 – June 4, 1989

    Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 28, 1992 – January 3, 1993; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22 – February 28, 1993; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993 (AP)

    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993 (edition 1)

    New York, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons/Andy Warhol: Flowers, November 11 – December 21, 2002

    Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Colección Taschen, October 20, 2004 – January 10, 2005 (edition 3)

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012

  • Klaus Ottman, "Interview: Jeff Koons," Journal of Contemporary Art 1, no. 1 (October 1986)

    Jeff Koons, "A Text by Jeff Koons," Spazio Umano (Milan), no. 4 (October-December 1986), (ill. p. 86)

    Giancarlo Politi, "Luxury and Desire. An Interview with Jeff Koons," Flash Art, no. 132 (February/March 1987), (color ill. p. 74)

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons," (text in Italian), Interview, Flash Art (Italian), February/March 1987, (color ill. p. 47)

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

    Alan G. Artner, "Market Valued What Jeff Koons' Work Says About the Art World," The Chicago Tribune, July 31, 1988 (color ill. p. 16)

    Laurie Palmer, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago," Review. Artforum 27, no. 2 (October 1988), p. 153 

    The BiNational: American Art of the Late 80’s, (Boston: The Institute of Contemporary Art & The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1988), p. 128

    I. Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, ext. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988), pp. 29, 39 (ill. p. 29, pl. 18)

    Schlaf der Vernunft, exh. cat. (Kassel: documenta und Museum Fridericianum-GmBH, 1988), p. 223 (color ill. p. 112)

    Kenneth Williams, "Galleries: Museums: Newport Harbor Art Museum," Los Angeles Times, April 13, 1990 (ill. p. F28) 

    OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, exh. cat. (Newport Beach, California: Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1990), pp. 4, 89, 173 (color ill. cover; color ill. p. 89)

    Carol Fowler, "Pop Art with a Controversial Twist, " The Times/Time Out San Francisco, December 11, 1992 (ill. p. 32)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Cologne: Taschen, 1992), pp. 86, 167 (color ill. pp. 86-87)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), pp. 81, 158 (color ill. pp. 80-81) 

    Burkhard Riemschneider, Jeff Koons: 30 Postcards (Cologne: Taschen, 1992), illustrated in color.

     

    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 pp. 86, 132 (color ill. p. 86, pl. 36)

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), pp. 49, 99 (color ill. p. 49)

    Jeff Koons, eds. Jens Erik Sorensoen and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Denmark: Aarhaus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 48 (color ill. p. 48, pl. 32)

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), pp. 48, 112 (color ill. p. 48), pp. 49, 99 (color ill. p. 49)

    Jeff Koons/Andy Warhol: Flowers, ed. Daniel Pinchbeck, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian, 2002), p. 16 (color ill. p. 18)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), p. 52 

    Marga Paz, Taschen Collection, exh. cat. (Cologne: Taschen, 2004), pp. 122, 251 (color ill. pp. 124-125)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), (color ill. p. 27, Chicago installation)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009) (color ill. pp. 228; color ill. 230-231)

    Brigitte Kölle and Stiftung Kunstsammlung, Es geht voran: Kunst der 80er. Eine Düsseldorfer Perspektive (Munich, Prestel Verlag, 2010) (color ill. p. 149, installation)

    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), pp. 157, 190 (color ill. p. 157)

    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. 96, 295 (color ill. p. 96, fig. 5) 

    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), pp. p. 104, 304 (color ill. p. 104, fig. 5) 

    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. 100 (color ill. p. 100, fig. 5)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), pp. 39, 40 (color ill. p. 39)

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024), pp. 20, 46 (color ill. pp. 44-45, detail; color ill. pl. 6, pp. 47)

French Coach Couple
1986

stainless steel
17 x 15 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches 
43.2 x 39.4 x 29.8 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

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

    Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, February 21 – May 23, 1988

    Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, April 8 – June 24, 1990 (edition 3)

  • Roberta Smith, “Art: 4 Young East Villagers at Sonnabend,” The New York Times, October 24, 1986, p. C30 

    Giancarlo Politi, "Luxury and Desire. An Interview with Jeff Koons," Flash Art (Milan), no. 132 (February/March 1987), p. 72 (color ill. p. 72) 

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons," (text in Italian) Flash Art (Milan) (February/March 1987), p. 45 (color ill. p. 45)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Radical Consumption and the New Poverty," New Observations 51 (October 1987), p.6 (ill. p. 6)

    Allan Schwartzman, "Corporate Culture: The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc., December 1987, p.141 (color ill.)

    Veit Loers, "Interview with Jeff Koons," in Schlaf der Vernunft, exh. cat. (Kassel: Documenta and Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs, 1988), p. 223 (ill. p. 155)

    Roberta Smith, "Rituals of Consumption," Art in America 76, no. 5 (May 1988), p. 170 (color ill.)

    Corinne Robins, "Goods and No-So-Goods: 60s/80s Sculpture Parallels," Arts Magazine 62, no. 10 (June 1988), p. 64

    Klaus Kertess, "Bad," Parkett, no. 19 (New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 1989), p. 42 (color ill.)

    Horn of Plenty: Sixteen Artists from NYC, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1989), pp. 26, 100 (color ill. p. 27)

    Peter Schjeldahl, “Jeff Koons,” in OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, ed. Paul Schimmel, exh. cat. (Newport Beach: Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1990), ), p. 173 (color ill. p. 86)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 90, 167 (color ill. p. 90)

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

    Robert Rosenblum, On Modern American Art: Selected Essays (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999), p. 336

    The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, exh. cat. (Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1999), p. 201

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), pp. 37, 99 (color ill. p. 37; color ill. p. 99)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 225, 586 (color ill. p. 225)

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014), pp. 75 (color ill. p. 73, installation; color ill. p. 74)

    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. 96 (color ill. p. 96, Kassel installation view)

    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. 104 (color ill. p. 104, Kassel installation view)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 40 (color ill. p. 40, Kassel installation)

    Index, ed. Maurizio Cattelan, Marta Papini and Michele Robecchi (Milan: Pirelli HangarBicocca, 2021), p. 200 (color ill. p. 200)

Italian Woman
1986

stainless steel
30 x 18 x 11 inches
76.2 x 45.7 x 27.9 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

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

    Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, February 21 – May 23, 1988 (edition 3)

    Paris, Fondation Daniel Templon, Exposition Inaugurale, July 11 – September 10, 1989

    Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, April 8 – June 24, 1990

    San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993 (edition 2)

    Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museum, The Mediated Object: Selection from the Eli Broad Collections, March 1996 (edition 2)

    Santa Monica, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Group Show, December 10,1997 – July 21,1999 (edition 2)

    Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 28, 1992 – January 3, 1993; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22 – February 28, 1993; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993

    London, Serpentine Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, Give and Take, January 30 – April 1, 2001

    New York, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons/Andy Warhol: Flowers, November 11 – December 21, 2002 (edition 3)

    Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, June 9 – September 15, 2003

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 4 – December 12, 2004; Helsinki, Helsinki City Art Museum, January 28 – April 10, 2005 (edition 3)

    New York, C & M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, April 7 – June 5, 2004 (edition 1)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008 (edition 3)

    Rome, Gagosian Gallery, Made in Italy, May 27 – July 29, 2011 (edition 3)

    London, Luxembourg & Dayan, Grisaille: Part I, October 9 – December 23, 2011; New York, Luxembourg & Dayan, Grisaille: Part II, November 7, 2011 – January 14, 2012 (edition 3)

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012 (edition 1)

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (edition 3)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (edition 3)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (edition 3)

    London, Newport Street Gallery, Jeff Koons: Now, May 18 – October 16, 2016 (edition 1)

    New York, Luxembourg & Dayan, Melodrama, July 14 – September 17, 2016 (edition 3)

    Florence, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Jeff Koons. Shine, October 2, 2021 – January 31, 2022 (edition 3)

     Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 –March 31, 2022 (edition 1)

  • Jeff Koons, "A Text by Jeff Koons," Spazio Umano (Milan), no. 4 (October-December 1986) (ill. p. 109)

    Peter Schjeldahl, "A Visit to the Salon of Autumn 1986," Art in America 74, no. 12. (December 1986), p. 16

    Kay Larson, “Masters of Hype,” New York, November 1986, p. 100

    Dan Cameron, "NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection," exh. cat. (Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1987), p. 11

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons," Flash Art (Italy), January/February 1987 (color ill. p. 44)

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

    Giancarlo Politi, "Luxury and Desire. An Interview with Jeff Koons," Flash Art (Milan), no. 132 (February/March 1987), p. 76

    Allan Schwartzman, "The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc, December 1987 (color ill. p. 139)

    Dirk Schwarze, "Schlaf der Vernunft," Kunstforum International, no. 94 (April/May 1988), p. 249

    Germano Celant, Unexpressionism: Art Beyond the Contemporary (New York, Rizzoli, 1988) (color ill. p. 334-335, detail; color ill. p. 341)

    Jean-Michel Foray, Jean-Pierre Criqui, L'Objet de l'Exposition, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre National des Arts Plastiques, 1988), p. 76

    Schlaf der Vernunft, exh. cat. (Kassel: documenta und Museum Fridericianum-GmBH, 1988), p. 223 (color ill. p. 113)

    Peter Plagens, "International Shows: Under Western Eyes," Art in America 77, no. 1 (January 1989), p. 36

    Image World, Art and Media Culture, ed. by Marvin Heiferman, Lisa Phillips, and John G. Hanhardt, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989) (ill. p. 69)

    Donald Kuspit, "Breakfast of Duchampians," Contemporanea 2, no. 3 (May 1989), (color ill. p. 69)

    Nick Jenkins, "Mr. Koons," Tatler, November 1989, p. 146

    Daniel Templon, Fondation Daniel Templon, Musee Temporaire, Exposition Inaugurale, exh. cat. (Paris: Fondation Daniel Templon, 1989), p. 92 (color ill. p. 93)

    Exposition Inaugurale, exh. cat. Paris, Musee Temporaire, Fondation Templon, 1989

    OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, exh. cat. (Newport Beach, Calif.: Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1990) (color ill. pp. 96-97)

    Jane Greenstein, "Double Vision: Two Court Battles Decide When Appropriation is Inappropriate," Art & Antiques 7, no. 1 (January 1990), p. 23 

    William Wilson, "Sculpture Show Lends Meaning to Emptiness," Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1990

    Robert L. Pincus, "Exhibits show contrast of soft, hard edge," San Diego Union, May 13, 1990, p. E2

    Susan Freudenheim, "Trivial 'New Sculpture' seems shaped by marketplace," San Diego Tribune, May 18, 1990, p. C7

    American Pop Culture Today III (Tokyo: Seibundo Shinkosha Publishing Co., Ltd., 1990), pp. 21, 104 (color ill. p. 21)

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

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 90, 167 (color ill. p. 90)

    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), pp. 12, 85, 132 (color ill. p. 85, pl. 35)

    David Littlejohn, "Who is Jeff Koons and why are people saying such terrible things about him?" ARTnews 92, no. 4 (April 1993), p. 92

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), pp. 51, 113 (color ill. p. 51, as '1987')

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), p. 49 (color ill. p. 50)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koons, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 1997), pp. 54, 83 (color ill. p. 51)

    Interno-Esterno/Alterno, exh. cat., eds. Alessandra Borhese, Achille Bonito Oliva (Milan: FENDI, 1998), p. 36, (color ill. p. 37)

    Robert Rosenblum, On Modern American Art: Selected Essays (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999), pp. 331, 334

    Richard Cork, "At home from home," The Times (United Kingdom), January 24, 2001, p. 17

    Rose Aidin, "The great gallery swap-shop show,” The Independent, January 28, 2001, p. 4, (ill. p. 4)

    Sarah Ken, "Shock of the old. The V&A's antiques come out to play,” Time Out, February 14, 2001

    Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, no. 487 (March 2001), p. 271

    Lisa G. Corrin, Give & Take, exh. cat. (London: Serpentine Gallery, 2001) (color ill. p. cover, 25) 

    Jeff Koons/Andy Warhol: Flowers, ed. Daniel Pinchbeck, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian, 2002), p. 16 (color ill. p. 19)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 57 (color ill. p. 57)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 55, 147 (color ill. p 55)

    Rainer Crone, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M, 2004), pp. 70, 82 (color ill. pl. 24, pp. 71, 82)

    Wendy E. Solomon, "Koons: the artist matures," York Sunday News, December 10, 2005

    Calvin Tomkins, "The Turnaround Artist," The New Yorker, April 23, 2007, p. 64

    Graham Bader, "Jeff Koons," Artforum, September 2008 (color ill. p. 448, installation)

    John Caldwell, This is About Who We Are, ed. by Thea Westreich (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 2008), p. 189

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008) pp. 23, 52, 114 (color ill. p. 53)

    "Jeff Koons at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago," artdaily.org, March 18, 2008, online

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 13, 242 (color ill. p. 232)

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

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), p. 120

    Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel, Francois Pinault, Edouard Papet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elena Guena, Laurent Le Bon, Michel Houllebecq, Jeff Koons: Versailles, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions Xavier Barral, 2009), pp. 116

    Massimo Gaggi, "Jeff Koons: arte ed eros," Corriere Della Sera Style Magazine, 2011, p. 64 (color ill.)

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple," (Text in French) 20/27, no. 5 (2011) (color ill. p. 136)

    Grisaille, exh. cat., (London/New York: Luxembourg & Dayan, 2011), pp. 42, 142 (color ill. p. 43)

    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), pp. 150, 190 (color ill. p. 151)

    Bill Powers, Interviews with Artists, (New York: Gagosian, 2013), p. 278

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

    Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. p. 130)

    Rachel Harrison, "Thanks for the Memories," Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014) (color ill. p. 317)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons, l'art gonflé!" Vanity Fair (France) (October 2014), (color ill. p. 135)

    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) pp. 19, 21, 92, 96, 97, 287 (color ill. p. 92, pl. 47; color ill. p. 97, fig. 8, Victoria and Albert Museum installation; color ill. p. 96, fig. 1, cover of Flash Art; color ill. p. 97, fig. 11, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung 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), pp. 24, 26, 100, 104, 105, 299 (color ill. p. 100, pl. 47; color ill. p. 104, fig. 1, cover of Flash Art 132; color ill p. 105, fig. 8, Victoria and Albert Museum installation; color ill. p. 105, fig. 11, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation)

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014) (color ill. p. 73-74)

    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), pp. 22, 23, 96, 100, 101, 209 (color ill. p. 96, pl. 47; color ill. p. 100, fig. 1, cover of Flash Art feb/march issue; color ill. p. 101, fig. 8, Victoria and Albert Museum installation; color ill. p. 101, fig. 11, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation) 

    The Broad Collection, ed. Joanne Heyler with Ed Schad and Chelsea Beck (Los Angeles: The Broad, Delmonico Books an imprint of Prestel Publishing, 2015), p. 21

    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 (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 67 (color ill. p. 67)

    Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth, (Cologne: Taschen, 2015) (color ill. p. 40)

    "Melodrama Act II at Luxembourg & Dayan New York," NY Arts, July 7, 2016, pp. 5, 46, 101 (color ill. p. 47; color ill. p. 101)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), p. 5

    Agnes Berecz, 100 Years 100 Artworks: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art (Munich: Prestel Publishing, 2019), p. 156 

    Florence Dartois, "1997, Jeff Koons : "Pour moi, l'art est de l'ordre du rationnel"," Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (France), April 10, 2019 https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/1997-jeff-koons-pour-moi-l-art-est-de-l-ordre-du-rationnel/ 

    Olivier van Kuijen, "Zo werd Jeff Koons de op één na rijkste kunstenaar ter wereld," Quote (Netherlands), June 20, 2021(color ill. Chicago installation by Mira Oberman, May 29, 2008) https://www.quotenet.nl/lifestyle/kunst/a36770623/zo-werd-jeff-koons-de-op-een-na-rijkste-kunstenaar-ter-wereld/

    Emanuela Minucci, "Jeff Koons e i suoi segreti "Sartre dietro il coniglio" La Stampa (Italy), September 27, 2021 (color ill.)  https://www.lastampa.it/topnews/tempi-moderni/2021/09/27/news/jeff-koons-c-e-sartre-dietro-il-mio-coniglio-1.40747620

    "“Shine” di Jeff Koons a Palazzo Strozzi," Report Pistoia (Italy), October 3, 2021 (color ill. by Andrea Dami, Palazzo Strozzi installation) https://www.reportpistoia.com/shine-di-jeff-koons-a-palazzo-strozzi/

    Finn Blythe, “I’m Trying to Become a Vaster Human Being”: Jeff Koons on Life and Art," AnOther (London, UK), October 14, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13648/im-trying-to-become-a-vaster-human-being-jeff-koons-on-life-and-art

    Marina Santin, "Lo "Shine" Secondo Koons," Daily Luxury (Italy), October 18, 2021 (color ill.) http://www.dailyluxury.it/jeff-koons-il-suo-shine-a-firenze/

    Gabi Czöppan, "Was macht die Koonst?," Focus (Germany), October 16, 2021 (color ill.) 

    Index, eds., Maurizio Cattelan, Marta Papini and Michele Robecchi (Milan: Pirelli HangarBicocca, 2021) p. 203 (color ill. p. 203)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), pp. 21, 86, (color ill. p. 87, cat. 9; color ill. p. 183, Newport Gallery installation; color ill. p. 187)

    Jeff Koons. Lost in America, exh. cat., ed. Massimiliano Gioni (Milan: Skira, 2021), p. 68 (color ill. p. 69)

    Flaminio Gualdoni, Arte Contemporanea - I Protagonisti: 04- Koons, (Italy: Corriere Della Serra, 2022), p. 82 (color ill. p. 83);

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024)

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, computer-animated superhero film, June 2, 2023, 140 minutes (color ill., animation)

Louis XIV
1986

stainless steel
46 x 27 x 15 inches 
116.8 x 68.6 x 38.1 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

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

    Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Galeries Contemporaines, Centre Georges Pompidou, Cartes Blanches, Les Courtiers du Desir, April 15 – May 24,1987

    Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Simulations, New American Conceptualism, November 13, 1987 – January 24, 1988 (edition 2)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Jeff Koons: Works 1979-1988, July 1 – August 28, 1988 (edition 3)

    Dayton, Wright State University Galleries, Redefining the Object, February 21 – April 3, 1988; Cleveland, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, (edition 3)

    Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Dusseldorf, Stadtische Kunstahlle, The BiNational: German Art of the Late 80s, American Art of the Late 80s, September 23 – November 27, 1988

    Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, February 21 – May 23, 1988

    Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Affinities and Intuitions: The Gerald S. Elliot Collection of Contemporary Art, May 12 – July 29, 1990 (edition 2)

    San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993

    Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 28, 1992 – January 3, 1993; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22 – February 28, 1993; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993

    Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Going for Baroque, September 23, 1995 – February 4, 1996 (edition 3)

    Athens, Athens School of Fine Art, Everything That's Interesting is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, January 20 – April 20, 1996 (edition 1)

    Santa Monica, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Group Show, December 10,1997 – July 21,1999 (edition 2)

    Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum, House of Sculpture, May 23 – August 8, 1999 (edition 3)

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration, December 15, 1999 – May 15, 2000 (edition 1)

    Cyprus, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Forever. Shortcuts: Works form the Dakis Joannou Collection, November 28, 2001 – March 31, 2002 (edition 1)

    Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, June 9 – September 15, 2003 (edition 1)

    Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Art from Dallas Collections, September 7, 2003 – March 28, 2004 (edition 3)

    Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Collection Taschen, October 20, 2004 – January 10, 2005 (AP)

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now, June 22 – December 31, 2004 (edition 1)

    Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, Variable States: Three Masterworks of Modern Sculpture, September 18, 2004 – January 2, 2005 (edition 3) 

    Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim, Douglas Gordon's The Vanity of Allegory, July 16 – October 9, 2005

    Durham, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Evolution of the Nasher Collection, October 2005 – May 2006 (edition 3)

    St. Louis, The Pulitzer Foundation of Arts, Portrait/ Homage /Embodiment, November 3, 2006 – June 30, 2007 (edition 1)

    Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Inaugural Installation, 2008 (edition 2)

    Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, In Pursuit of Masters: Stories from the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, September 20, 2008 – January 4, 2009 (edition 3)

    Chateau de Versailles, Jeff Koons Versailles, October 9, 2008 – April 1, 2009 (edition 1)

    London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, September 24, 2011 – January 15, 2012 (edition 3) 

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012 (edition 1)

    Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol Museum, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, February 3 – April 28, 2013

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (edition 3)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (edition 3)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (edition 3)

    Geneva, The Museum of Art and History of the city of Geneva, Urs Fischer–False Friends, April 27 – July 17, 2016 (edition 1)

    New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Summer 2018, June 18 – August 31, 2018 (AP)

    Dallas, The Warehouse, The Sensation of Space, May 20 – November 15, 2019 (edition 3)

    Florence, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Jeff Koons. Shine, October 2, 2021 – January 31, 2022 (edition 1)

  • Roberta Smith, "Art: 4 Young East Villagers at Sonnabend Gallery," New York Times, October 24, 1986, p. C30 

    Jeff Koons, "A Text by Jeff Koons," Spazio Umano (Milan),no. 4 (October-December 1986), p. 109 (ill. p. 109)

    Robert Kleyn, "Neuva Concetti," (text in Italian) Tema Celeste (Milan), January / March 1987, p. 80

    Giancarlo Politi, "Luxury and Desire. An Interview with Jeff Koons," Flash Art (Milan), no. 132 (February/March 1987), p. 74 (color ill.) 

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons," Flash Art (Italy), January/February 1987, p. 44 (color ill. p. 44)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Radical Consumption and the New Poverty," New Observations, no. 51. (October 1987), p. 15

    Allan Schwartzman, "Corporate Culture: The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc., December 1987, p. 141

    Carte blanche, Les courtiers du desir, exh. cat., eds.,Howard Halle and Walter Hopps (Georges Pompidou Art and Culture Fondation (U.S.A.), Centre Georges Pompidou, 1987), p. 32 (ill. p. 33/plate 28)

    Dan Cameron, "NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection," exh. cat. (Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1987), p. 11

    Simulations, New American Conceptualism (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1987), no. 6, n.p. (color ill. cover, back cover)

    Georg Herold, Jeff Koons and Isabelle Graw, "Atlantisches Bündnis," Wolkenkratzer (Germany), January 1988

    Dirk Schwarze, "Schlaf der Vernunft," (text in German) Kunstforum (Mainz), no. 94 (April/May 1988), p. 249 (ill. p. 249, Kassel installation)

    Roberta Smith, "Rituals of Consumption," Art in America 76 no. 5 (May 1988), p. 170 (color ill. cover) 

    "Schamlos schön," Der Spiegel, no. 12 (March 1988), p. 231 (color ill.) 

    Suzi Gablik, "Dancing with Baudrillard," Art in America 76, no. 6 (June 1988), p. 29

    Laurie Palmer, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago," Artforum 27, no. 2 (October 1988), p. 153

    The BiNational: American Art of the Late 80’s, exh. cat. (Boston: The Institute of Contemporary Art & The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1988) cat. no. 40, p. 127 (ill).

    I. Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, ext. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988), pp. 3, 9, 39 (ill. p. 3, pl. 20)

    John Caldwell and Michael Newman, Carnegie International - 1988, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel, 1988), p. 90

    Klaus Honnef, ed., Contemporary Art, Hamburg, 1988, p. 29

    Redefining The Object (Dayton: University Art Galleries, Wright State University, 1988) p. 7 (ill. p. 7)

    Veit Loers, Schlaf der Vernunft, exh. cat. (Kassel: Documenta and Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs, 1988), p. 22 

    Peter Plagens, "International Shows: Under Western Eyes," Art in America 77, no. 1 (January 1989), p. 36

    Thomas Dreher, "Jeff Koons, Objekt-Bilder," Artefactum, January-February 1989, pp. 49-51

    Henry Hanson, "Art Works: Highbrow, High-Priced Tchotchkes," Chicago, February 1989, p. 23

    Encontros Luso-Americanos de Arte Contemporanea/Portuguese-American Meetings on Contemporary Art: Contemporary American Sculpture, Signs of Life, ed. by Fernando de Azevedo, Judith Russi Krishner (Lisbon: Fundacao Calouste Gulbekian, 1989) (color ill. p. 55) 

    Image World, Art and Media Culture, ed. by Marvin Heiferman, Lisa Phillips, and John G. Hanhardt, exh. cat.(New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989), p. 153 (color ill. p. 153) 

    Jane Greenstein, "Double Vision: Two Court Battles Decide When Appropriation is Inappropriate," Art & Antiques 7, no. 1 (January 1990), p. 23

    William Wilson, "A Sculpture Show That Runs on Empty," Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1990, p. F-6

    "Artifacts. Brief Art World Updates," Art Cellar Exchange, May 1990, p. 11

    Michael Tarantino, “Gone Soft?: The 44th Venice Biennale," Artforum 29, no. 1 (September 1990), p. 137

    Affinities and Intuitions: The Gerald S. Elliot Collection of Contemporary Art, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1990), cat. no. 75, p. 291 (ill.)

    Peter Schjeldahl, “Jeff Koons,” in OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, ed. Paul Schimmel, exh. cat. (Newport Beach: Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1990), pp. 83, 173 (color ill. p. 83)

    Suzanne Landau, Life-Size: A Sense of the Real in Recent Art, exh. cat. (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1990), pp. 128-129.

    Power: Its Myths and Mores In American Art, 1961 - 1991, exh. cat. (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991,) p. 87, illustrated in color

    "Fräls oss i vår banalitet" Konstnären, March 1991, p. 6 (color ill.)

    Albig Jorg-Uwe, "Jeff Koons, ein Prophet der inneren Leere" Art, December 1992, p. 56 (color ill. 

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Cologne: Taschen, 1992), p. 91, illustrated in color; p. 167, mentioned without illustration

    Robert Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d’Offay Gallery, 1992), pp. 77, 158 (color ill.)

    Jeff Koons, "Baby & Eimer Cover Story," Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (Munich), no. 46 (November 13, 1992), p. 34

     A. Beeke, "Jeff Koons," Stedelijk Bulletin, November 1992, p. 76

    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), pp. 82, 132 (color ill. p. 82, pl. 32)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1992), p. 51, 99, illustrated in color.

    Hildegund Amanshauser, "Pornographic Scenes of Normal Married Life," Camera Austria 39, 1992, p. 36

    Pamela Haskin, "The Real Cliche," The New Art Examiner, December 1993 (ill. p. 19)

    American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993, eds. Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal (Munich/London/Berlin: Prestel-Verlag, Royal Academy of Arts, ZEITGEIST-Gesellschaft e. V., 1993), p. 457

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), pp. 49, 99 (color ill. p. 51)

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), pp. 53, 113 (color ill. p. 53)

    F. Hettig, "Jeff Koons," Kunstforum International, v. 121, Kunst und Humor II, 1993, p. 109 (another example illustrated).

    "Dakis Joannou: Can Art Reconstruct Paradise?" The Art Magazine (Athens) February 1994 (color ill. p. 38)

    Zoran L. Bozovic, Razgovori O Likovnoj Umetnosti II (Text in Serbian) (Belgrade: CICERO, 1994), pp. 62, 64, (ill. p. 65)

    Paul Richard, ""Going for Baroque' & Coming Up Short," The Washington Post, October 1, 1995 (ill. p. G1; ill. p. G4)

    Going for Baroque: 18 Contemporary Artists Fascinated with the Baroque and the Rococo, ed., Lisa G. Corrin and Joaneath Spicer (Baltimore: The Contemporary and the Walters, 1995), p. 48 (color ill. p. 48)

    Bruce Ferguson, "Everything that's interesting is new," Flash Art, March/April 1996, p. 109, (color ill. p. 109, installation view).

    A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection, exh. cat. (New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Founation, New York / Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1996), pp. 308, 332 (color ill. p. 309) 

    The Dakis Joannou Collection: Everything That's Interesting is New, exh. cat., ed. Jeffrey Deitch (Ostfilden: Cantz/ DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 1996), p. 155 (color ill. p. 154; color ill. p. 293, installation)

    Linda Weintraub, Arthur Danto, and Thomas McEvilley, Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970s-1990s (Litchfield, CT: Art Insights, Inc., 1996), p. 203

    Rainald Goetz, Jeff Koons, Schaupielhaus Programmhefte (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1999) (color ill. p. 39)

    Robert Rosenblum, On Modern American Art: Selected Essays (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999), p. 334

    Alison M. Gingeras, "Easyfun: Superfici Opache," Flash Art International (Milan) 38, no. 240 (April-May 2000), p. 79

    Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 1979-1999, ed. Katerina Gregos. exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation, 1999), pp. 8, 46 (color ill. p. 90)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, no. 487 (March 2001), p. 271

    Laura Tansini, "Mai dire Kitsch...Sedurre con le immagini," (Text in Italian) ARS, no. 45 (September 2001), p. 87

    Shortcuts, exh. cat. (Athens: DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2002), p. 70-71 (color ill. p. 76, installation view)

    Kirk Varnedoe, “Jeff Koons’s Rabbit,” Artforum 41, no. 8 (April 2003), p. 90

    Telma Miguel, "Oh Senhor Taschen," Taschen, Fall 2003 (color ill. p. 9, Taschen residence installation; color ill. p. 32, detail; color ill. p. 49, Taschen residence installation; color ill. p. 106; (color ill. p. 146)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), pp. 54, 147 (color ill. p. 55) 

    "Top Art Publisher: Benedikt Taschen," (Text in foreign language) Brutus, June 15, 2004 (color ill. p. 87)

    Jessica Kerwin, "The Golden Greek", W Magazine, October 2004 (color ill. p. 364) 

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 52, 132

    Marga Paz, Taschen Collection (Cologne: Taschen, 2004), pp. 14, 123 (color ill. p. 123)

    Monument to Now, exh. cat., ed. Jeffrey Deitch (Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 2004), p. 206 (color ill. p. 206)

    Wendy E. Solomon, "Koons: the artist matures," York Sunday News, December 10, 2005, pp. A1, A12

    Isabelle de Wavrin, "Les Bonnes Pioches de Dakis Joannou," (French) Beaux Arts (2005) (color ill. pp. 70-71, installation);

    The Vanity of Allegory, exh. cat. (Berlin: Guggenheim Museum, 2005) (color ill.)

    Mia Fineman, "My Big Fat Post Modern Wedding," The New York Times Magazine, January 8, 2006, (color ill. p. 74)

    Paola Dezza, "Guarda Come Volano," (Text in Italian) Ventiquattro,March 7, 2006, p. 124

    David Bonetti, "Face Painting. An Exhibit at the Pulitzer Foundation Looks at the Art of Portraiture," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 26, 2006, pp. F1 (color ill. p. F1)

    Calvin Tomkins, "The Turnaround Artist," The New Yorker, April 23, 2007, p. 64

    “Pairs – Die Paare: Jeff Koons/Yan Pei-Ming/Emil Nolde,” Die Welt, Spring 2007, p. 2

    John Stourton, Great Collectors of our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 (London: Scala Publishers Ltd, 2007), p. 405

    "Jeff Koons at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago," artdaily.org, March 18, 2008

    "King Koons," (Text in French) Elle (France),August 2008

    Judith Benhamou-Huet,  "Exposition: Le roi du kitsch trone a Versailles," Le Point, September 4, 2008, p. 84 (color ill.)

    Laetitia Cenac, "le roi Koons a Versailles," Madame Figaro, September 6, 2008, p. 142(color ill. p. 142)

    Jean-Max Colard and Judicael Lavrador, "L'impromptu de Versailles," (text in French) Les Inrockuptibles, no. 668 (September 16, 2008), p. 77

    Jennifer Vogelson, “How is That Art?” York Daily Record, September 19, 2008, p. 5A

    Angela Doland, "Koons zany sculptures on display at Versailles," Associated Press, September 2008

    Laurence Dreyfus, "En Grande Pompe," Le Magazine de L'optimum, no. 6 (September 2008), p. 113

    Laurent Le Bon and Emanuelle Lequeux Interviewin "Jeff Koons: Versailles," (French) Beaux Arts éditions, September 2008, p. 27

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), (color ill. p. 27, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago installation)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 13, 224, 242 (color ill. p. 215)

    David Colman, "Jeff Koons," Interview, December/January 2009, p. 120

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

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), p. 120

    Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel, Francois Pinault, Edouard Papet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elena Guena, Laurent Le Bon, Michel Houllebecq, Jeff Koons: Versailles, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions Xavier Barral, 2009)), pp. 52, 116, 136, 144, 185 (color ill. p. 53, Chateau de Versailles installation; color ill. p. 54, detail; color ill. p. 55, Chateau de Versailles installation; color ill. p. 144)

    Laurence Mouillefarine, “Jeff Koons un roi a New York,” (Text in French) Madame Figaro (Paris), November 2010, p. 158

    William Jeffett, Dali Doubled: From Surrealism to the Self, A New Critical View of Dali (St. Petersburg, FL: The Salvador Dali Museum, Inc., 2010) (color ill. p. 302)

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple: Jeff Koons," (text in French) 20/27, no. 5, 2011, p. 136 (color ill. p. 136)

    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), pp. 145, 190 (color ill. p. 144)

    Mark Rosenthal, Marla Prather, Ian Alteveer, and Rebecca Lowery, Regarding Warhol:Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, exh. cat.(New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012), p. 27

    Bill Powers, Interviews with Artists, (New York: Gagosian, 2013), p. 278

    Scott Indrisek, "All Aboard That 'Great Koonsian Adventure'," Artinfo, June 26, 2014

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

    Michael Polsinelli and Sasha Burkhanova, “The Words,” Garage Magazine, no. 7 (Fall/Winter 2014), p. 91 (color ill. p. 91)

    Jed Perl, "The Cult of Jeff Koons," Book Review. The New Yorker, September 25, 2014,

    Rachel Harrison, "Thanks for the Memories," Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014), p.317.

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

    Myriam Boutoulle, "Jeff Koons, a star in Paris," (Text in French) Connaissance des Arts, (December 2014), p. 72

    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), pp. 21, 91, 97, 287 (color ill. p. 91, pl. 46; color ill. p. 9, fig. 10, Andy Warhol Museum 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), pp. 26, 99, 105, 299 (color ill. p. 99, pl. 46; color ill. p. 105, fig. 10, Andy Warhol Museum installation)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 125, 128, 129, 201 (color ill. p. 129)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 125, 128, 129, 201, 293 (color ill. p. 129)

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 20 (color ill. p. 20)

    Julie Champion and Caroline Edde, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Album of the Exhibition (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 20 (color ill. p. 20).

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Portfolio of the Exhibition (France: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 66

    Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: New Paintings and Sculpture, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2014), p. 11

    Sylvia Edwards Davis, "Reviewed: Jeff Koons at the Centre Pompidou, Paris," France Today, January 28, 2015 (color ill.) 

    Linda Yablonsky, "A Christie's Auction Brings Together the Art, and History, of Jeff Koons and Martin Kippenberger," The New York Times Style Magazine, April 21, 2015 (color ill.)

    Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, exh. cat. (Bilbao: FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, 2015), pp. 23, 95, 101, 299 (Edition 3)

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014), pp. 77, 78

    Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, exh. cat. (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. China: Skira Rizzoli Publications, 2014), p. 94. (Nasher Collection)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 39 (color ill. p. 38 Kassel installation)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 66 (color ill. p. 66); 

    Urs Fischer: False Friends, exh. cat. (Greece: DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2016), p. 35 (color ill. p. 35)

    Jacob Bernstein, "Robert Mnuchin Would Rather Not Discuss His Cilent (or His Son)," The New York Times, May 19, 2019 (color ill.) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/arts/robert-mnuchin-steven-cohen-koons.html

    Agnes Berecz, 100 Years 100 Artworks: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art (Munich: Prestel Publishing, 2019), p. 156

    An Album: Lietta & Dakis Joannou, Home Installations 1998-2019 (Athens: Deste, 2019), pp. 74, 75, 76, 101, 102, 103, 108, 109, 131, 133, 157 (color ill.)

    Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words (Athens: Deste, 2019), pp. 58, 122 (color ill. p. 59)

    David Hopkins, DARK TOYS, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), p. 152

    Jeff Koons. Lost in America, ed. Massimiliano Gioni, exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2021),p. 70, (color ill. p. 71)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), pp. 21, 83, 173 (color ill. p. 82, cat. 8;color ill. p. 84, detail;color ill. p. 85, detail; color ill. p. 180, Versailles installation; color ill. p. 187)

    Jeff Koons: Mucem. Works from the Pinault Collection, exh. cat.(Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2021), p. 97, (color ill. p. 177)

    Julie Poole, "'We apologize for the inconvenience': The unsightliness of labor at the Blanton's 'Day Jobs'," Scalawag Magazine, May 11, 2023 https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/05/day-jobs-blanton-labor/

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, computer-animated superhero film, June 2, 2023, 140 minutes (color ill. animation)

    Max Lakin, "When Spider-Man Met Jeff Koons," The New York Times, July 13, 2023, Section C, p. 11 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/arts/design/spider-man-jeff-koons-art.html

    Amis: 120 Years with the Museé National d'Art Moderne, eds. Helene Gheysens and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov (Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2023), (ill pp. 132-33, Cartes Blanches installation)

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024), p. 15

Mermaid Troll
1986

stainless steel
20 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
52.1 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

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

    Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, February 21 – May 23, 1988

    (edition 1)

    Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, April 8 – June 24, 1990

    Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, September 30 – November 29, 1997, pp. 48-49, illustrated in color, 83

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; Helsinki City Art Museum, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 4 – December 12, 2004 (Oslo), January 28 – April 10, 2005 (Helsinki), p. 58, illustrated in color

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012, pp. 178-79, 192, illustrated in color (edition 3)

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014, pp. 21, 92, 181, 287, 297, illustrated in color (edition 3)

    Porto, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal, The Sonnabend Collection: Part II, May 11, 2018 – September 23, 2018 (edition 3)

    Saskatoon, Remai Modern, The Sonnabend Collection, May 31 – September 29, 2019 (edition 3)

    Florence, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Jeff Koons. Shine, October 2, 2021 - January 31, 2022 (edition 3)

  • Jeff Koons, "A Text by Jeff Koons," Spazio Umano (Milan), no. 4 (October-December 1986), pp. ill. p. 126, incorrectly titled Cape Codder Troll

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

    Robert Kleyn, "Neuva Concetti," (text in Italian) Tema Celeste (Milan), January / March 1987, p.80.

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons," (text in Italian) Flash Art (Milan) (February/March 1987), p. 46

    Allan Schwartzman, "Corporate Culture: The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc., December 1987, p. 141 (color ill. p. 141)

    Veit Loers, Schlaf der Vernunft, exh. cat. (Kassel: Documenta and Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs, 1988), p. 223

    Dirk Schwarze, "Schlaf der Vernunft," (text in German) Kunstforum (Mainz), no. 94 (April/May 1988), p. 249 (ill. p. 249, Museum Fredericianum Kassel installation)

    Germano Celant, Unexpressionism: Art Beyond the Contemporary (New York, Rizzoli, 1988)

    Peter Schjeldahl, “Jeff Koons,” in OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, ed. Paul Schimmel, 82–88, exh. cat. (Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1990), pp. 95, 173 (ill. p. 95)

    Achille Bonito-Oliva, "Ainsi L'etat de l'Art (et de la critique aussi)," (text in French) New Art International (Paris) (April/May 1990), (color ill. p. 30, incorrectly titled Cape Codder Troll)

    Quindicesima Biennale Internazionale del Bronzetto Piccola Scultura Padova, exh. cat. (Milan: Electa, 1991), p. 87 (ill. p. 87)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 93, 167 (color ill. p. 93)

    Jeff Koons: 30 Postcards (Cologne: Taschen, 1992) (color ill.)

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

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

    Nicolas Bourriaud, "Jeff Koons," Beaux Arts, September 1997, p. 44 (color ill. p. 44)

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

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), p. 221 (color ill. p. 221)

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

    William T. Georgis, "Allegria per gli Ospiti," Architectural Digest (Italy), May 2011 (color ill. 162)

    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) pp. 178, 192 (color ill. p. 179)

    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), pp. 92, 287 (color ill. p. 92, pl. 48)

    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), pp. 100, 299 (color ill. p. 100, pl. 48)

    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), pp. 96, 302 (color ill. p. 96, pl. 48)

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

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

    Florence Dartois, "1997, Jeff Koons : "Pour moi, l'art est de l'ordre du rationnel"," Institut National d l'Audiovisuel (France), April 10, 2019 https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/1997-jeff-koons-pour-moi-l-art-est-de-l-ordre-du-rationnel/

    Lynn McMaster, The Sonnabend Collection, exh. cat. (Saskatoon: Remai Modern: 2019), (color ill. p. 140-143)

    Martin Holman, "Exhibition review: Jeff Koons. Shine at Palazzo Strozzi," The Florentine (Florence, Italy), November 18, 2021 (color ill., Palazzo Strozzi installation) https://www.theflorentine.net/2021/11/18/exhibition-review-jeff-koons-shine-at-palazzo-strozzi/

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), pp. 21, 90, (color ill. p. 91, cat. 11; color ill. p. 187)

    Antonella Valente, "Democratizzare l’arte attraverso l’acciaio: la rivoluzionaria mostra di Jeff Koons a Firenze," The Walk of Fame (Italy), January 11, 2022 (color ill. Palazzo Strozzi installation) https://www.thewalkoffame.it/blog/democratizzare-larte-attraverso-lacciaio-la-rivoluzionaria-mostra-di-jeff-koons-a-firenze/

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024), p. 10

Rabbit
1986

stainless steel
41 x 19 x 12 inches 
104.1 x 48.3 x 30.5 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Group Show: Ashly Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, October 8 – November 8, 1986 (edition 3)

    New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987 Whitney Biennial, April 10 – July 5, 1987

    Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Galeries Contemporaines, Centre Georges Pompidou, Cartes Blanches, Les Courtiers du Desir, April 15 – May 24,1987

    London, The Saatchi Collection, NY Art Now, September 8, 1987 (edition 1)

    Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf der Vernunft, February 21 – May 23, 1988 (edition 2)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: Works 1979-1988, July 1 – August 28, 1988 (edition 1)

    Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, April – June 1990

    Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 8th Biennale of Sydney: The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art, April – June 1990

    New York, The Museum of Modern Art, High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, October 7, 1990 – January 15, 1991; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; February 20 – May 12, 1991; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, June 21 – September 15, 1991

    Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Territorium Artis, June 19 – September 20, 1992

    Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 28, 1992 – January 3, 1993; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22 – February 28, 1993; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993 (edition 3)

    San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993 (AP)

    Santa Monica, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, December 1995 - January 1996 (AP)

    Santa Monica, The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Group Show, December 10, 1997 – July 21, 1999 (AP)

    New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Open Ends, September 28, 2000 – March 4, 2001

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection, October 7, 2001 – January 6, 2002; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, March 16 – June 3, 2002; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, July 28 – October 20, 2002; Bilbao, February 15, 2003 – September 7, 2003 (AP)

    Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, June 9 – September 15, 2003 (edition 3)

    New York, C & M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, April 7 – June 5, 2004 (edition 3)

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 4 – December 12, 2004; Helsinki, Helsinki City Art Museum, January 28 – April 10, 2005

    (edition 3)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, February 12 – June 5, 2005 (edition 1)

    Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA Collection: Super Vision, December 10, 2006 – April 29, 2007

     

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, November 19, 2006 – March 4, 2007 (AP)

    Kunsthaus Bregenz, Re-Object: Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Merz, February 17 – May 13, 2007 (edition 1)

    Los Angeles, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Inaugural Installation, February – September 2008 (AP)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008 (edition 1)

    Château de Versailles, Jeff Koons Versailles, September 10, 2008 – April 1, 2009 (edition 3)

    London, Tate Modern, POP Life: Art in a Material World, October 1, 2009 – September 19, 2010 (London); Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle; February 12 – May 9, 2010; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, June 11 – September 19, 2010 (edition 1)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Without You I’m Nothing: Art and Its Audience, November 20, 2010 – May 1, 2011 (edition 1)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s, February 11 - June 3, 2012; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, June 30, 2012 – September 29, 2012; Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, (November 16, 2012 – March 3, 2013 (edition 1)

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012 (AP)

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (edition 1)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (edition 1)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (edition 1)

    Los Angeles, The Broad Art Foundation, Inaugural Installation, September 20, 2015 – May 1, 2016 (AP)

    Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Sculpture on the Move 1946-2016, April 19 – September 18, 2016 (edition 1)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, We are Here, We are Everywhere, August 19, 2017 –April 1, 2018 (edition 1)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Heaven and Earth: Alexander Calder and Jeff Koons, October 21, 2017 – April 14, 2019 (edition 1)

    Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, February 7 – June 9, 2019 (AP)

    Mexico City, Museo Jumex, Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, May 19 – September 29, 2019 (edition 1)

    Florence, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Jeff Koons. Shine, October 2, 2021 – January 31, 2022 (edition 1)

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 – March 31, 2022 (edition 3)

  • Frank Owen, "Neo Geo is its name," i-D Magazine, February 1986 (color ill. p. 90)

    Roberta Smith, “Art: 4 Young East Villagers at Sonnabend,” The New York Times, October 24, 1986, p. C30

    Amei Wallach, “The New Art is SoHo Cool,” Newsday, October 1986 (color ill.)

    Kay Larson, “Masters of Hype,” New York, November 1986, p. 100 (ill. p. 100)

    Jeff Koons, "A Text by Jeff Koons," Spazio Umano (Milan),no. 4 (October-December 1986) (ill. p. 86, Sonnabend installation view)

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons," Flash Art (Italy), January/February 1987 (color ill. p. 44)

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

    Giancarlo Politi, "Luxury and Desire. An Interview with Jeff Koons," Flash Art (Milan), no. 132 (February/March 1987), (color ill. p. 76)

    Meyer Raphael Rubinstein and Daniel Wiener, "Sites and Sights: Considerations on Walter de Maria, Jeff Koons, and Tom Butter," Arts Magazine 61, no. 7 (March 1987), (ill. p. 21)

    Shaun Caley, "Group Show: Sonnabend," Flash Art, March 1987, p. 104 (ill. p. 104)

    Michael Brenson, "Art: Whitney Biennial's New Look," The New York Times, April 10, 1987, p. C24

    Matt Damsker, "Change of Mood at the Whitney. Exhibit blends the best of contemporary art," The Hartford Courant, Connecticut Living, April 20, 1987, p. B1

    Kay Larson, "Good Neighbors," New York Magazine 20, no. 17 (April 27, 1987), p. 123

    Gary Indiana, “Another Review of the Whitney,” The Village Voice, April 1987, p. 87 (color ill. p. 87)

    Robert Pincus-Whitten, "Electrostatic Cling: Or the Massacre of Innocence," Artscribe, no. 64 (Summer 1987), (ill. p. 1; ill. p. 6, Whitney Biennial installation)

    Mary Ann Marger, "A glimpse at the state of American Arts," St. Petersburg Times, June 7, 1987, p. E-1

    Jane Addams Allen, "Chilly Cynicism a Portent of Trouble," Insight Magazine, June 15, 1987, p. 58 (color ill. p. 59, Whitney installation)

    Andrew Graham-Dixon, "Neo Geo," Vogue 144, no. 9 (September 1987) (color ill. p. 3; color ill. p. 361)

    Ann E. Berman, "Sculptors-in-Progress," Town & Country 141, no. 5088 (September 1987), (color ill. p. 271)

    Lynne Cooke, "Object Lesson: Just What Is It About Today's Sculpture...?" Artscribe, no. 65 (September/October 1987), p. 55 (color ill, p. 55)

    Susan Morgan, "Write when you get work...," Artscribe International (UK), September 1987 (color ill. p. 59)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Radical consumption and the new poverty," New Observations 51 (October 1987), p. 15

    Anna Tilroe, "Een kiefer op de wc," Elsevier (Netherlands), December 19, 1987 (color ill.)

    Allan Schwartzman, "Corporate Culture: The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc., no. 12 (December 1987), p.139 (ill. p. 139)

    1987 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987) (color ill. p. 71)

    Carte blanche, Les courtiers du desir, exh. cat., eds.,Howard Halle and Walter Hopps (Georges Pompidou Art and Culture Fondation (U.S.A.), Centre Georges Pompidou, 1987) (ill. p. 37/plate 27)

    Dan Cameron, "NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection," exh. cat. (Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1987), p. 11

    "Jeff Koons," Kunstforum, January 1988 (color ill. p. 86)

    Georg Herold, Jeff Koons and Isabelle Graw, "Atlantisches Bündnis," Wolkenkratzer (Germany), January 1988 (color ill.)

    Jerry Saltz, "The Dark Side of the Rabbit: Notes on a Sculpture by Jeff Koons," Arts Magazine 62, no. 6 (February 1988), p. 26 (color ill. p. 27)

    Adam Gopnik, "The Art World: Originals," The New Yorker, May 23, 1988, p. 69

    Miriam Sandford, "Künstler, Sammler, Sensationen," Galleries (Germany), August 1988 (color ill. p. 108)

    Roberta Smith, "Rituals of Consumption," Art in America, May 1988 (color ill. p.171)

    Alan G. Artner, "Market Valued What Jeff Koons' Work Says About the Art World," The Chicago Tribune, July 31, 1988, p. 16

    Hiroko Tamaka, "Jeff Koons," (text in Japanese) Hi Fashion (Tokyo) August 1988, p. 137

    Jean-Michel Foray, "L'Object De L'Exposition", Galleries Magazine, 1st August/September 1988 (color ill. p. 67)

    Alan Jones, "Thriller," Contemporanea International Art Magazine 1, no. 3 (September/October 1988), p. 42

    Laurie Palmer, “Jeff Koons Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,” Artforum 27, no. 2 (October 1988) p. 153

    Kim Levin, "Evil of Banality," Village Voice, December 20, 1988, p. 115

    Germano Celant, Unexpressionism: Art Beyond the Contemporary (New York, Rizzoli, 1988) (color ill. p. 340, detail with daisy; color ill. p. 341)

    I. Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, ext. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988), pp. 4, 9, 28, 39 (ill. p. 28, pl. 21)

    New York in View, Ashley Bickerton, Jeff Koons, Allan McCollum, Haim Steinbach, Meyer Vaisman, exh. cat. 1988, (ill. p. 13)

    Veit Loers, Schlaf der Vernunft, exh. cat. (Kassel: documenta und Museum Fridericianum-GmBH, 1988) (color ill. p. 115)

    Zdenek Felix, New York in View: Ashley Bickerton, Jeff Koons, Allan McColllum, Haim Steinbach, Meyer Vaisman, exh. cat. (text in German) (Munich: Kunstverein Munchen, 1988), p. 13 (ill. p. 13)

    "Jeff Koons e la pubblicita di se stesso," Flash Art News supplement to Flash Art, no. 147 (December 1988/January 1989), (ill. p. 23, cover of New York Art Now)

    Henry Hanson, "Art Works: Highbrow, High-Priced Tchotchkes," Chicago 38, no. 2 (February 1989), p. 23

    "Jeff Koons Resume," Avenue, February 1989, p. 115

    Meg Cox, "Feeling Victimized? Then Strike Back: Become an Artist," The Wall Street Journal, February 13, 1989 (ill.)

    Margot Westenholm, "Scharlatan Und Super-Star: Jeff Koons," (text in German) Pan (Berlin), February 1989 (color ill. p. 11)

    Robert Pincus-Whitten, "Entries: Concentrated Juice & Kitschy Kitschy Koons," Arts Magazine 63, no. 6 (February 1989), pp. 37, 38

    Arthur C. Danto, "Art: The 1989 Whitney Biennial," The Nation, June 1989, p. 790

    Michael Compton, “Pop Art II -- Jeff Koons & Co.,” Art & Design, July 1989, p. 38 (color ill. p. 38, NY Art now at Saatchi installation)

    Klaus Kertess, “Bad,” (text in English and German) Parkett, no. 19 (1989), pp. 31, 43

    James Hall, "Neo-Geo's Bachelor Artists," Art International 9, (Winter 1989), pp. 3 (color ill., cover, photo montage, Rabbit flipped)

    Mark Stevens, "The Shock of the Faux," Vanity Fair 52, no. 12 (December 1989), p. 122

    Horn of Plenty: Sixteen Artists from NYC, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1989), p. 56

    "OBJECTives: The New Sculpture," Orange Coast Weekend 6, no. 14 (April 6, 1990), (ill. p. 4)

    William Wilson, "Sculpture Show Lends Meaning to Emptiness," Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1990, p. F-2 (ill. p. F-1)

    Robert L. Pincus, "Exhibits show contrast of soft, hard edge," San Diego Union, May 13, 1990,

    Andrew Renton, "Jeff Koons," (text in Italian) Flash Art (Milan) 23, no. 156 (Summer 1990), p. 115

    Dodie Kazanjian, “Koons Crazy,” Vogue, August 1990, pp. 342-343 (color ill. p. 339)

    Robin Enright, “The Material Boy and the Femme Fidele,” Border Crossings., Winter 1990, p. 40 (color ill. p. 40)

    Nicholas Jenkins, "High, Low, Hot + Cool," ARTnews 89, no 8, October 1990 (color ill. p.165, image flipped)

    Peter Plagens, "MoMA Takes the Low Road," Newsweek CXVI, no. 16 (October 15, 1990), p. 72 (color ill. p. 72)

    Suzanne Ramljak. "With a Fine Disregard: An Interview with Kirk Varnedoe," Sculpture, November/December 1990, pp. 19, 21 (ill. p.19, image flipped)

    Denise Barricklow, "All Tits and No Art?" The Face (London), no. 26 (November 1990), p. 19 (color ill. p. 104)

    Robert Enright, "The Material Boy and the Femme Fidele," Border Crossings 10, no. 1 (Winter 1990-1991), p. 38 (color ill. p. 40)

    8th Annual Biennial: Art is Easy, exh. cat. Exh. Cat., Sydney, 1990, p. 18 (ill. p. 18)

    High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, exh. cat., ed. Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1990), p. 395 (color ill. 368)

    OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, exh. cat. (Newport Beach, Calif.: Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1990), p. 173 (color ill. pp. 98-99)

    Stuart Morgan, "Something + Nothing," in Lotte or the Transformation of the Object, exh. cat, (Graz: Durch, 1990), p. 32

    The Readymade Boomerang / Art is Easy: Certain Relations in Twentieth Century Art. The 8th Biennale of Sydney, (Millers Point: The Biennale of Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1990)

    Jeffrey Deitch, "L'Industria Dell'Arte," Flash Art, June 1, 1991 (color ill. p. 73)

    Silvia Robertazzi, "ART," L'Uomo Vogue, June 1, 1991 (color ill.)

    Sylvère Lotringer, "La Terza Ondata," Flash Art, June 1, 1991 (color ill.)

    Thomas Frend, "Ein Happening fur Gefuhle und Begierden," Newmag, July 1991 (color ill. p. 38)

    Anthony Haden-Guest, "Art or Commerce? Kitschy, Kitschy Koons," Vanity Fair 54, no. 11 (November 1991)

    Daniel Pinchbeck, "Kitsch and Tell," Connoisseur 221, no. 958 (November 1991), p. 126

    "Hommage An Armani Koons - Werk." Elle Germany, 1991, p.178

    New Art. An International Survey, ed. by Andreas Papadakis, Clare Farrow, and Nicola Hodges (New York: Rizzoli, 1991) (color ill. p. 144, installation view)

    Kathleen Roberts, "Exhibition shows how art and culture brush together," Courier-News, February 28, 1991 (ill.)

    Carter Ratcliff, Rhonda Lieberman, and Jo Anna Isaak, "Jeff Koons: Not for Repro," Artforum 30, no. 6 (February 1992), p. 82

    Jorg-Uwe Albig, “Jeff Koons, ein Prophet der inneren Leere" in Art, December 1992, (ill. p. 53)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 21-22, 89, 167 (color ill. p. 89)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), pp. 19, 82,159 (color ill. p. 83)

    Jeff Koons: 30 Postcards. Cologne: Taschen, 1992 (color ill.)

    Kunst und Ausstelklungshalle der Bundesrepublik, exh. cat (Territorium Arts, 1992), p. 171

    Robert Hughes, “The Princeling of Kitsch,” Time Magazine, February 1993, p. 79 (ill. p. 79)  

    Lars Morell, “Jeff Koons Interview: The Political Value of Art,” Skala: Nordic Magazine of Architecture and Art, no. 28 (1993), p. 38 (ill. p. 38)

    David Littlejohn, “Who is Jeff Koons and Why Are People Saying Such Terrible Things About Him?” Artnews, April 1993 (color ill. cover)

    Anthony Haden-Guest, “A Collector’s Progress,” Art & Auction, December 1993 (color ill. p. 80)

    Alberto Fiz, "La vita è un paradiso di... Bugie," Class (Italy), February 2, 1994

    Kirk Varnedoe, New Acquisitions in MoMA, no. 17 (Summer 1994), p. 17 (ill. p. 17)

    Wendy E. Solomon, "Koons: the artist matures," York Sunday News, December 10, 1995, pp. A7-A9

    Keith Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett, no. 50/51 (December 1997), p. 70 (color ill. p. 70)

    Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal, eds., The Age of Modernism: Art in the 20th Century (Berlin: Hatje, 1997) (color ill. p. 335)

    Chrissie Iles, and Ingrid Sischy, Fascination: Hugo Boss, 1998 (color ill.)

    Steven Henry Madoff, “Creative Chaos,” Time Magazine, November 1999 (color ill. p. 98)

    James Reginato, "Crafty Koons", W 29, no. 4 (April 2000), p. 397

    Andrew Graham-Dixon, "The Inflated World of Jeff Koons," The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, September 17, 2000, p. 16

    Martin Kemp, The Oxford History of Western Art (Oxford, 2000), pp. 504, 524-525

    Norman Rosenthal, Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, exh cat. (London: Royal Academy of Art Publishing, 2000) (color ill. p. 232)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, no. 487 (March 2001), pp. 226, 271 (color ill. p. 270)

    Suzanne Slesin, "Wall to Wall," House & Garden (June 2001) (color ill. p. 145, residential installation)

    James Reginato, "Broad Stokes," W Magazine, September 2001 (color ill. p. 556)

    "Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections," At the Museum, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September/October 2001, (color il. p. 7)

    Matthew Collings, "Jeff Koons" in Writers on Artists in association with Modern Painters (New York: DK Publishing Inc., 2001) (color ill. p. 46)

    Joe Fyfe, "Jeff Koons at Gagosian," Art in America, November 2001 (color ill. 96)

    Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal, exh. cat. (Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim, 2001) (color ill. fig. 16, p. 35)

    Stephanie Barron, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 124-125, 191

    Edward Lucie-Smith, American Realism (London: 2002), pp. 225-228

    From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Sonnabend Gallery, 2002), pp. 136, 138 (color ill. 139)

    Osaka University of Art: Basic Study of Three Dimensions Textbook. Japan: 2002, p.173 (ill. p. 173)

    Eric Troncy, "Le Manége Enchanté", Les Inrockuptibles, January 2003 (color ill. p. 38)

    Katy Siegel, “Jeff Koons Talks to Katy Siegel,” ArtForum, no. 41 (March 2003), pp. 252-253 (color ill. cover)

    Joe La Placa, "Jeff Koons: The Candyman Can," ArtReview, no. 54 (April 2003), p. 48

    Kirk Varnedoe, "1986: Jeff Koons’ Rabbit,” Artforum 41, no. 8 (April 2003), p. 90 (color ill. p. 90)

    “Letters to the Editor,” Artforum, Summer 2003 (color ill. p. 18)

    Pepe Karmel, "Pepe Karmel on Kirk Varnedoe: Man of His Words," ArtForum XLII, no. 3 (November 2003), pp. 25 (color ill. p. 26, Rabbit flipped)

    David Rosenberg, Art Game Book Historie des Arts du xx siecle (Paris: Editions Assouline, 2003) (color ill. p. 286)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), pp. 60, 61, 147, 149 (color ill. p. 61)

    Michael McKenzie, Images We Love: Popular Art in America (American Image Books, 2003), p. 47 (color ill.)

    Susan Freudenheim, “Romancing the Collector: Will There Be a Storybook Ending?” The New York Times, March 31, 2004 (ill. p. F1)

    Eleanor Heartney, "Jeff Koons at Sonnabend," Art in America (May 2004)

    “Best of 2004: 13 Critics and Curators Look at the Year in Art,” Artforum, December 2004, pp. 157, 168 (color ill. cover image)

    Aaron Hicklin, Matthew Barney and Jeff Koons, "Matthew Barney vs Jeff Koons," Blackbook, October/November 2004 (color ill. p. 87, image flipped)

    Valentina Agostinis, "Jeff Koons," Arte (November/ December 2004) (color ill. p. 68)

    "Paul Schimmel," Artforum (November 2004), pp. cover, 168 (color ill. cover; color ill. p. 169)

    Anne Wehr, Plop: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund (New York: Merrel, 2004), (color ill. p. 131)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 56, 57, 139, 147 (color ill. p. 56, detail; color ill. p. 57; color ill. p. 139, detail)

    Rainer Crone, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M, 2004), pp. 40, 82 (color ill. pp. 18-19, detail; color ill. pl. 10, pp. 41, 82)

    Stephane Dumont, and Karl Eirik Haug, “Jeff Koons Gets a Lift.” Carl’s Cars, no. 69 (2004), pp.  22-25

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: An Interview by the Readers of Flash Art," Flash Art International (Milan) 38, no. 240 (January-February 2005) (color ill. p. 90)

    Ken Johnson, “Eager Globe-Trotters Shrink the Art World,” The New York Times, April 29, 2005

    Kelly Devine Thomas, “The Selling of Jeff Koons,” Art News 104, no. 5 (May 2005) (color ill. p. 118)

    Cheryl Kaplan, "Door to Door: A Visit to Jeff Koons' Studio," db-art.info, June 2005

    Julie Brener, "Art Talk: Those Lips, Those Eyes," ArtNews, December 2005, p. 40

    Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, ed. Marc Glimcher (New York: Pace Wildenstein, 2005), p. 104

    Rosie Dickins, The Usborne Book of Art: A Complete Introduction for Beginners (London: Usbourne Publishing, Ltd. 2005) (color ill. p. 139)

    Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, exh. cat., ed. Francesco Bonami, Julie Rodrigues Widhold and Tricia Van Eck (Chicago: D.A.P./MCA, Chicago, 2005) (color ill. p. 89, reflection edited)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, "Master Interviews: Jeff Koons," Modern Weekly (China) 642, April 2006, p. C72 (color ill. p. C72)

    Marc Spiegler, "Five Theories on Whey the Art Market Can't Crash And Why It Will Anyway," New York Magazine, April 2006, p. 41 (color ill. p. 41)

    Cheryl Kaplan, "Koons & McCartney," (Text in German) Monopol (Germany), June 2006 (color ill. p. 83)

    "Jeff Koons als Modemacher - Koons & McCartney" Monopol Magazin, June/July 2006 (color ill. p. 83)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, "Master Interviews: Jeff Koons," Modern Lifestyle Magazine, November 2006 (color ill. p. 72)

    Dave Hickey, "Spotlight: Jeff Koons," Vanity Fair, December 2006, p. 370

    Ken Johnson, “The ‘Vision’ Thing: Inaugural ICA sets its sights on contemporary consciousness” in Boston Sunday Globe, December 10, 2006, pp. N18-19 (ill.)

    Adam Lindemann, Collecting Contemporary (Los Angeles: Taschen, 2006), pp. 23, 164, 179 (color ill. p. 166)

    Jill Gasparina, I Love Fashion, L'Art Contemporain et la mode (Paris: Editions Cercle d'Art, 2006) (color ill. p. 111)

    Kurt Varnedoe, Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), p. 40 (color ill. p. 40)

    Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, exh. cat., ed. Stephanie Barron, Michel Draguet and Sara Cochran (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/LACMA, 2006), p. 220 (color ill. p. 218)

    Nicolas Baume, Super Vision, exh. cat. (MIT Press, 2006), p. 97 (color ill. p. 96)

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006), p. 49 (color ill. p. 48)

    Thomas Buser, Experiencing Art Around Us (Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006) (color ill. p. 476, image reversed)

    Bruce Hainley, “Reviews: Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images,” Artforum, February 2007, p. 301 (color ill. p. 301, LACMA installation)

    Tom McDonough, “Education of the Senses: Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s splendid new home for the Boston ICA explores the relationship between culture and sight,” Art in America, March 2007, p. 127 (color ill. p. 127, Boston installation)

    Daniella Walsh, “Jeff Koons: On Track,” Art & Living, Summer 2007, pp. 42-46, 108 (color ill. p. 45)

    Alastair Sooke, "Face to face with the incredible hulk of American contemporary art," The Daily Telegraph, June 9, 2007, p. 12

    "Head to Head with Stella McCartney," Interview with Jeff Koons and Stella McCartney. Wallpaper (United Kingdom), October 2007, p. 345

    Roberta Smith, “A Bunny Balloon Sheds Its Steel Skin” in The New York Times, Arts, November 23, 2007

    Jonanthan Laib, "The Connoisseur," The New York Times Style Magazine, Winter Holiday 2007, (color ill. p. 40, collaged image in photo by Bela Borsodi)

    John Stourton, Great Collectors of our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 (London: Scala Publishers Ltd, 2007), p. 185

    Raphel Bouvier, "The Baroque and the New: Jeff Koons and the Concept of Baptism," in Baroque Tendencies in Contemporary Art, ed. Kelly Wacker (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), pp. 116-143

    Sebastian Egenhofer, John Gray, Gudrun Inboden, and Herbert Molderings, Re-Object: Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Merz, ed. Eckhard Schneider, exh. cat. (Bregenz: Kunstaus Bregenz, 2007), pp. 8, 15, 117, 142, 144, 172 (color ill. p. 117; color ill. p. 128, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation)

    Thomas Von Wagner, "Generation Zeitgeist," Art, no. 1 (January 2008), pp. 36-43 (color ill. cover)

    Helianthe Bourdeaux-Martin, “Profile – Dominique Levy,” Whitewall, Winter 2008 (color ill. p. 42 C&M installation)

    Francesco Bonami, “Jeff Koons,” Panorama First, no. 4, 2008 (color ill. p. 117)

    Carol Vogel, “A Colossal Private Sale by the Heirs of a Dealer,” The New York Times, May 12, 2008

    Dodie Kazanjian, "The Art of Persuasion," Vogue, May 2008, pp. 268-275, 315 (color ill.)

    Peter Schjeldahl, “Funhouse: A Jeff Koons Retrospective,” The New Yorker, June 9, 2008

    "Koons Royal," Monopol, no. 9 (September 2008) (color ill. p. 28, Versailles installation)

    Sylvie Gassot, "Jeff Koons a Versailles: Provocation ou Revolution?" Paris Capitale, no. 134 (September 2008) (color ill. p. 56, Versailles installation)

    Judith Benhamou-Huet, "Exposition: Le roi du kitsch trone a Versailles," Le Point, September 4, 2008, (color ill. p. 84, Versailles installation)

    "Questions sur l'expositin Jeff Koons au chateau de Versailles," Le Monde, September 8, 2008, (color ill. p. 1, Versailles installation)

    Valerie DuPonchelle, "Toute la planete reunie a Versailles pour Jeff Koons," Le Figaro, September 10, 2008 (color ill. p. 28, Versailles installation)

    Jean-Pierre Frimbois, "Jeff Koons: son Pari a Versailles," art actuel, no. 58, September - October 2008, pp. 4 (color ill. p. 6, Versailles installation)

    Ute Thon, "Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand," Art, October 2008, p. 42 (color ill. p. 42, Versailles installation)

    Michael Houellebecq, "Jeff Koons," Art World 7 (October/November 2008), p. 31 (color ill. p. 31, Versailles installation)

    "Power 100," ArtReview 27 (November 2008), p. 108

    Cheyenne Westphal, "Top Five: What to See This Month," ArtReview 28 (December 2008), p. 36, (color ill. p. 131, Versailles installation)

    Sylvie Lambert, "Jeff Koons," l'Officiel Hommes, Fall-Winter 2008/2009, p. 106 (color ill. p. 106, Versailles installation)

    Christopher Mooney, "Jeff Koons: Chateau de Vaersailles," ArtReview 28 (December 2008), p. 131 (color ill. p. 131, Versailles installation)

    Arnaid Demir, "King Koons," BC/BE Contemporary, Winter 2008, pp. 40 (color ill. p. 110, Versailles installation)

    Germano Celant, The American Tornado: Art in Power 1949-2008 (Milan: Skira, 2008) (ill. p. 25, cover of NY Art Now, 1987)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008)

    John Caldwell, This is About Who We Are: The Collected Writings of John Caldwell, ed. by Thea Westreich (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 2008), p. 188

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 13, 49, 50, 216, 222, 468 (color ill. p. 217; color ill. p. 228)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), pp. 45, 49, 107, 110 (color ill. p. 49; color ill. p. 110)

    Francesco Bonami, “Art & Money,” Domus, March 2009, 34-36 (color ill. p. 34-35, Versailles installation)

    Jeff Koons, "Cover design with T, 5x5x5," The New York Times Style Magazine, November 2009 (color ill. p. 80)

    Charlotte Bonham-Carter and David Hodge, The Contemporary Art Book (London: 2009) (color ill. p. 133)

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

    Jorg Schellmann, Forty are Better than One (New York: D.A.P., 2009) (color ill. p.193)

    Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 5, ed. Marybeth Sollins (New York: Abrams Books/Art21, Inc., 2009), pp. 94 (color ill. p. 95, Versailles installation)

    Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel, Francois Pinault, Edouard Papet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elena Guena, Laurent Le Bon, Michel Houllebecq, Jeff Koons: Versailles, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions Xavier Barral, 2009), pp. 36, 109, 117, 124, 150, 183 (color ill. cover, Versailles installation; color ill. p. 37, Versailles installation; color ill. p. 38, Versailles installation; color ill. p. 39, Versailles installation)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist (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), pp. 14, 72

    Philippe Segalot, Franck Giraud, and Joachim Pissarro, The Impossible Collection: The 100 Most Coveted Artworks of the Modern Era (New York: Assouline Publishing, 2009) (color ill. p. 82)

    Norman N. Holland, “Jeff Koons’ ‘Rabbit,’ the Brain, and Postmodern Art,” Psychology Today, June 2010 (ill.)

    Connie Bruck, "The Art of the Billionaire: How Eli Broad took over Los Angeles," The New Yorker 86, no. 39 (December 6, 2010), pp. 51, 57, 58

    David Hopkins, "Toys for Adults," in Childish Things, exh. cat. (Edinburgh, Fruitmarket Gallery, 2010), pp. 9, 10, 50 (color ill. p. 9)

    Francesco Bonami, Dal Partenone Al Panettone (Milan: Mondadori Electa spa, 2010), p. 136, (color ill. p. 137)

    POP Life: Art in a Material World, ed. Jack Bankowsky, Alison Gingeras, and Catherine Wood, exh. cat. (London, Tate Modern, 2010) (color ill. pp. 8-9)

    Andreas Tölke, “Gleichgewicht Der Kräfte,” Build, March 2011 (color ill. cover)

    Connie Bruck, "Broad's way," Monopol, April 2011, p. 55 (color ill. p. 50)

    George Pendle, "Jeff Koons Welcome to the Funhouse," The Graffiti Magazine, Summer 2011, p. 25

    Pharrell Williams, "Jeff Koons's Inspirations," Harper's Bazaar, September 2011, p. 470

    Brad Finger and Christiane Weidemann, 50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2011) (color ill. p. 68)

    Jorg Reckhenrich, Martin Kupp and Jamie Anderson, "Made in Heaven - produced on Earth: Creative Leadership as Art of Projection," Journal of Business Strategy 32, no. 4(2011), p. 12 (ill. p. 18)

    Ken Johnson, Are You Experienced?: How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art (New York: Prestel, 2011) (color ill. p. 195)

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), p. 1

    Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, "U.S. Giant Jeff Koons," Harper’s Bazaar Magazine (China) Art edition, January 2012 (color ill. p. 91)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Conversation Series 22: Jeff Koons (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2012), p. 115 (ill. p. 115)

    Max Hollein, Scott Rothkopf, Joachim Pissarro, Matthias Ulrich, and Jeff Fraiman, Jeff Koons: The Painter, eds. Matthias Ulrich, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), pp. 48, 56, 86, 92

    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), pp. 10, 14, 29, 40, 43, 46, 122, 188 (color ill. p. 43, fig. 3; (color ill. p. 123)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 21, 22, 36, 176, 178, 206 (color ill. p. 22, fig. 9; color ill. p. 178, fig. 7)

    Sam Phillips, …isms (New York: Universe Publishing, a division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2012, p. 125 (color ill. front cover)

    This Will Have Been: Art Love & Politics 1980s, exh. cat. (Chicago: Yale University Press, 2012) (color ill.) (color ill. p. 359)

    “U.S. Giant Jeff Koons,” Harper’s Bazaar China, 2012 (color ill.)

    Eli Broad, The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking (Hoboken: Wiley, 2012 (color ill. front cover)

    Carl Swanson, “Jeff Koons is the Most Successful American Artist Since Warhol, So What’s the Art World Got Against the Guy?” New York Magazine, May 2013 (color p. 28)

    Max Hollein, “100 Meisterwerke,” Monopol, December 2013 (color ill. p. 51)

    Joachim Pissarro, Jeff Koons: Almine Rech Gallery (Brussels: Almine Rech, 2013), p. 73

    Laurence Lowe, “Jeff Koons, in His Own Words,” Architectural Digest, June - July 2014 (color ill. p. 57)

    Richard Lacayo, “Show me the Bunny: As he Closes in on 60, Jeff Koons Finally Gets His Really Big Show,” Time Magazine, June - July 2014 (color ill. p. 93)

    Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, “Jeff Koons: Une Histoire de Goût,” Les Cahiers du Musée National D’Art Moderne. Summer 2014 (color ill. p. 49)  

    Ingrid Sischy, “Jeff Koons: L’Art Gonflé,” Vanity Fair, November 2014 (color ill. p. 42)

    Judicaël Lavrador, “Jeff Koons: génie ou imposteur?” Beaux Arts editions, November 2014, p. 136

    Luther Blissett, “Sept moments-clefs dans une vie d’artiste,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, p. 12 (Versailles installation)

    Aurélie Romanacce, “Jeff Koons: Le Roi Midas,” Arts Magazine, December 2014, p. 112

    Henri-François Debailleux, “Jeff Koons: Faiseur d’icônes,” L’Oeil Magazine, December 2014, (color ill. p. 10)

    Agnes Husslein-Arco, Edelbert Köb, and Thomas Mießgang ed.,The Other Side: Mirrors and Reflections in Contemporary Art, exh. cat. (Vienna, 2014) (color ill. p. 128)

    Anne Breucha, Die Kunst der Postproduktion: Jeff Koons in Seinen interviews (Wilhelm Fink, 2014) (ill. p. 68)

    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), pp. 7, 20, 29, 93, 97, 98, 287 (color ill. p. 93, pl. 49; color ill. p. 97, fig. 7, Walker Art Center installation; ill. p. 98, fig. 15, Sonnabend Gallery installation; color ill. p. 98, fig. 17, Whitney Museum of American Art installation; color ill. p. 117, fig. 17, C&M Arts installatio)

    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), pp. 7, 8, 15, 25, 101, 105, 106, 299, 312 (color ill. cover; color ill. p. 101, pl. 49; color ill. p. 105, fig. 7, Walker Art Center installation; color ill. p. 106, fig. 17, Whitney Biennial installation; ill. p. 106, fig. 15, Sonnabend Gallery installation)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal,Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 128, 133, 135 (color ill. p. 133)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 128, 133, 135 (color ill. p. 133)

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), pp. 21, 58, 59 (color ill. p. 21)

    Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: New Paintings and Sculpture, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2014), p. 11

    Sarah Thornton, 33 Artists in 3 Acts (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2014), p. 76

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014) (color ill. p. 73; color ill. p. 75)

    Skye Sherwin, “Forget ‘Look, but don’t touch.’ For a new generation of children and artists alike, play’s definitely the thing,” W, May 2015 (color ill. p. 38)

    Gay Gassmann, “Jeff Koons’s Suggestions for What to See, Read and Do This Summer,” in New York Times Style Magazine, July 2015 (color ill. p. 38)

    Ana Sokoloff, “Jeff Koons,” Ars Magazine, July - September 2015 (color ill. p. 38)

    Kim Novak, “Spin Dazzle: Decades of Art in a Daze,” Harper’s Bazaar Hong Kong, September 2015 (color ill.)

    Kerstin Stakemeier, "Jedermanns Autobiografie: Uber Mark Leckey im Haus der Kunst, Munchen," Texte Zur Kunst 99 (September 2015) (color ill. p. 218)

    Francesco Bonami, "Il Mondo Secondo Jeff," (Text in Italian), Panorama (Italy), October 7, 2015 (color ill. p. 117)

    Steff Yotka, “Jeff Koons’s Iconic ‘Rabbit’ Now Comes in Jewelry Form,” Vogue, October 2015 (color 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), pp. 10, 22, 97, 100, 102, 103, 299 (color ill. p. 97, pl. 49; color ill. p. 101, fig. 7, Walker Art Center installation; ill. p. 102, fig. 15, Sonnabend Gallery installation; color ill. p. 102, fig. 17, Whitney Biennial installation; color ill. p. 121, fig. 17, C&M Arts installation)

    The Broad Collection, ed. Joanne Heyler (New York: Prestel Publishing, 2015), pp.10, 21, 86, 84 (color ill.)

    Debra J. Dewitte, Ralph M. Larmann, and M. Kathryn Shields, Gateways to Art (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015) (ill. p.133)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), pp. 8, 9, 40, 43, (color ill. p. 8, Fridericianum Installation; color ill p. 41)

    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 (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), pp. 6, 68, 122, 123, 154, 156 (color ill. p. 68)

    Phillip Tinari, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. in association with Gagosian, 2015), pp. 6, 14

    Herbert Pfortmüller, "Lust - Kunst, Kunst – Lust," L'Officiel Schweiz (Switzerland), 2016, p. 108

    Andrianna Campbell, "'Souvenirs without Nostalgia' Gluts in Present Time," in Robert Rauschenberg (New York: The Museum of Modern Art), p. 327 (color ill. p. 327)

    Ines Viturro, “Jeff Koons presentó su Ballerina en el Mala,” Vanidades, April 2016 (color ill.)

    Art + NYC: A Complete Guide to New York City Art and Artists (New York: Museyon Inc, 2016), p. 94

    Terra Foundation Essays: Scale, ed. by Jennifer L. Roberts. 2nd Edition (Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, Spring 2017) (color ill.)

    Sven Michaelsen, “Jeff Koons,” Volkskrant Magazine, May 2017 (color ill. p.18)

    Robert Storr, Interviews on Art (London: HENI Publishing, 2017) (color ill.)

    Sarah Cascone, “Snapchat Unites with Jeff Koons for a Globe-Spanning Augmented Reality Sculpture Project,” Artnet News. October 2017(color ill.)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, "Jeff Koons on His Five Most Ambitious Unrealized Projects," Artsy, April 2, 2018 (color ill.)

    Dan Colen: Mailorder, Mother, Purgatory (New York: Artbook, 2018) (color ill. p.67)

    Laura Cumming, “Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean Review: A Master of Deflection,” The Guardian. January 2019 (color ill.)

    Will Gompertz, “Will Gompertz Reviews Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford,” BBC, February 2019 (color ill.)

    Tim Hughes, “Jeff Koons Shines at the Ashmolean,” The Oxford Times, February 2019 (color ill.)

    Blake Gopnik, "Metal rabbit or the ultimate, all-encompassing modern icon?" Christie's, May 15, 2019 (color ill. Christie's New York) https://www.christies.com/features/Blake-Gopnik-on-Rabbit-by-Jeff-Koons-9868-3.aspx

    Scott Reyburn, "Jeff Koons ‘Rabbit’ Sets Auction Record for Most Expensive Work by Living Artist," The New York Times, May 15, 2019, (color ill. Christie's New York) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/arts/jeff-koons-rabbit-auction.html

    "Jeff Koons sculpture breaks auction records," Harper's Bazaar (UK), May 16, 2019 (color ill. Christie's New York) https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/bazaar-art/a27488782/jeff-koons-sculpture-breaks-auction-records/

    Stephanie Eckardt, "Is Jeff Koons Our Marcel Duchamp?" W Magazine, May 27, 2019 https://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/jeff-koons-marcel-duchamp-exhibit-museo-jumex-mexico-city/

    Travis Diehl, "What’s Hidden in Jeff Koons’s Silver Rabbit Is Unforgettable," Garage, May 30, 2019 (color ill. Jeff Koons: Versailles) https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/43jqnp/whats-hidden-in-jeff-koonss-silver-rabbit-is-unforgettable

    Massimiliano Gioni, Apariencia desnuda: El Deseo y el objeto en la obra de Marcel Duchamp y Jeff Koons, aun, exh. cat. (Mexico City: Museo Jumex, 2019), p. 98 (color ill. p. 47)Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, exh. cat. (London: Phaidon, 2019), pp. 32, 63, 93, 129, 137, 243 (color ill. p. 33)Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words (Athens: Deste, 2019), p. 15Xa Sturgis and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, exh. cat. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2019), pp. 37, 72 (color ill. p. 36)

    Millie Walton, "Mirror Man," Lux, Autumn Winter 2021/22, pp. 30, (color ill. p. 33)

    Kirsty Lang, "How Jeff Koons Built the Art World’s Most Expensive Shrine to Middle-Class Taste," The Sunday Times (UK), November 21, 2021 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jeff-koons-interview-most-expensive-living-artist-ns8k5pb55Jeff Koons. Lost in America, ed. Massimiliano Gioni, exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2021), p. 72 (color ill. p. 73)

    Jeff Koons: Mucem. Works from the Pinault Collection, exh. cat.(Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2021), pp. 97, 135, 138, 177, 178, 181 (color ill. p. 177)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), pp. 12, 14, 20, 21, 55, 92 (color ill. cover; color ill. p. 2; color ill. p. 3; color ill. p. 92, cat. 12; color ill. p. 93; color ill. p. 94, detail; color ill. p. 95, back view; color ill. p. 173, i-D Magazine cover image; color ill. p. 173, Group Show 1986 installation; color ill. p. 183; color ill. p. 188)

    Massimiliano Gioni, Il desiderio messo a nudo, Conversazioni con Jeff Koons (Monza, IT: Johan & Levi editore, 2021), p. 44 (color ill. p. 44)

    Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022 https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/jeff-koons/

    Flaminio Gualdoni, Arte Contemporanea - I Protagonisti: 04- Koons, (Italy: Corriere Della Serra, 2022), pp. 15, 36 (color ill. p. 37)

    Sujin Kim, "A Very Lucky Man," Noblesse Korea, February 2024, p. 52

    DB Burkeman, The Unbelievably Fantastic Artists’ Sticker Book (China: Blurring Books, 2024), p. 50 (color ill. p. 12)

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024), p. 24

Two Kids
1986

stainless steel
23 x 14 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches
58.4 x 36.8 x 36.8 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

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

    Munich, Kunstverein Munchen, New York in View: Ashley Bickerton, Jeff Koons, Allan McCollum, Haim Steinbach, Meyer Vaisman, February 26 – April 3, 1988 (edition 1)

    Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Carnegie International, November 5,1988 – January 22, 1989

    Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Three Decades: the Oliver-Hoffman Collection, December 17, 1988 – February 5, 1989 (edition 3)

    Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Schlaf Der Vernunft, February 21 – May 23, 1988

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Jeff Koons: Works 1979-1988, July 1 – August 28, 1988

    Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, April 8 – June 24, 1990

    Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Denk-Bilder, Juy 13 – September 8, 1991; Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum,October 6 – November 24, 1991

    San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993 (edition 2)

    Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 28, 1992 – January 3, 1993; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22 – February 28, 1993; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993

     Kunsthaus Zurich, Signs and Wonders, March 31 – June 18, 1995 (edition 1)

    Karlsruhe, Museum für Neue Kunst im ZKM, EXIT, Stepping out of the picture, January 14 – October 3, 2005 (edition 1)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008 (edition 2)

    Miami, Rubell Family Collection, Beg Borrow and Steal, December 2, 2009 – August 27, 2010; Palm Springs, Palm Springs Art Museum, February 2 – June 2, 2013; Roanoke, Taubman Museum of Art, October 11, 2014 – January 10, 2015 (edition 2)

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012 (edition 2)

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (edition 2)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (edition 2)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (Edition 2)

    Philadelphia, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Collecting the New Irascibles: Art in the 1980s, January 23 – April 12, 2026 (Edition 2)

  • Klaus Ottman, "Interview: Jeff Koons," Journal of Contemporary Art 1, no. 1 (October 1986)

    Giancarlo Politi, "Luxury and Desire. An Interview with Jeff Koons," Flash Art, no. 132 (February/March 1987), p. 74 (color ill. p. 74)

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons," (text in Italian), Interview, Flash Art (Italian), February/March 1987, p. 47 (color ill. p. 47)

    Miriam Horn, "Art: Avant-garde Moving into Middle America, What's Far-out in May is Mainstream by October," U.S. News & World Report 102, no. 19 (May 18, 1987) (color ill. p. 69)

    Vanity (Milan) 26 (July-August 1987) (color ill. p. 118)

    Allan Schwartzman, "Corporate Culture: The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc., no. 12 (December 1987), p. 137 (color ill. p. 137)

    Norbert Messler, "Paul Maenz," Galeries Magazine, December 1987/January 1, 1988, (color ill. 109, Sonnabend Group Show installation)

    "Jeff Koons," Kunstforum, 92 (December 1987-January 1988) (color ill. p. 85)

    Klaus Ottman, "Interview: Jeff Koons," Journal of Contemporary Art 1, no. 1 (Spring 1988) 

    Laurie Palmer, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago," Review. Artforum 27, no. 2 (October 1988), p. 153 (ill. p. 153)

    John Caldwell and Michael Newman, Carnegie International - 1988, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel, 1988), p. 91 (color ill. p. 91)

    "Schamlos schön," (text in German) Der Spiegel (Hamburg), no. 12 (December 1988), pp. 228-231, (ill. p. 231)

    Veit Loers, "Interview with Jeff Koons," Schlaf der Vernunft, exh. cat. (Kassel: Documenta and Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs, 1988), p. 223 (color ill. p. 112)

    Zdenek Felix, New York in View: Ashley Bickerton, Jeff Koons, Allan McColllum, Haim Steinbach, Meyer Vaisman, ex. cat. (Munich: Kunstverein Munchen, February 1988), pp. 28, 29 (color ill.)

    Lynne Warren, "Post-Conceptualism," Three Decades: The Oliver-Hoffmann Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1989), p. 80 (ill. p. 80, installation view)

    Andrew Renton, “Super Star,” Blitz Magazine (London), no. 85 (January 1990), p. 54 (color ill. p. 54)

    "OBJECTives: The New Sculpture," Orange Coast Weekend 6, no. 14 (April 6, 1990), pp. cover (ill, cover)

    "The Subjects is Objects," Orange Coast Weekend, April 1990, p. 16 (ill. p. 16)

    “OBJECTives: The New Sculpture. Book Review,” Artscribe, Summer 1990 (color ill. p. 95)

     Michael Vaupel, "Bis sich der Korf dreht" Ruhr-Anzeiger Waz, Velberter Zeitung und Westdeutsche Allgemeine, October 1991, p. 1 (ill. p. 1)

    “Jeff Koons,” OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, ed. Paul Schimmel, exh. cat. (Newport Beach: Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1990), p. 173 (color ill. p. 90-91)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d’Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 159

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Cologne: Taschen, 1992), pp. 21, 88, 90, 167 (color ill. p. 90)

    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), pp. 83, 132 (color ill. p. 83, pl. 33)

     Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), pp. 36, 99 (color ill. p. 37)

    Jeff Koons, eds. Jens Erik Sorensoen and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Denmark: Aarhaus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 49 (color ill. p. 49, pl. 33)

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), pp. 49, 112 (color ill. p. 49)

    Lars Morell, "Jeff Koons Interview: The Political Value of Art," Skala, no. 28 (1993), pp. 39, 41 (ill. p. 39

     Niko Pirosmani and Bice Curiger, Signs and Wonders: Niko Pirosmani (1862–1918) and Recent Art, exh. cat. (Künsnacht: Cantz Verlag, 1995), p. 128 (color ill. pl. 44)

     Edelbert Köb, KünstlerInnen - 50 Positionen zeitgenössischer internationaler Kunst. Videoportraits und Werke: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Köln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 1997)

    David Sylvester, “Jeff Koons Interviewed,” Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal, exh. cat. (New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2000), p. 35 (color ill. p. 35) 

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 147

    Mark Coetzee, Rubell Family Collection: Not Afraid (London: Phaidon, 2004) (color ill. p. 159, installation view; color ill. p. 161)

    EXIT. Ausstieg aus dem Bild, exh. brochure (Karlsruhe: ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, 2005)

    Graham Bader, “Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,” Artforum 47, no. 1 (September 2008), p. 448 (color ill. p. 448-449, Chicago installation)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 27, 55, 114 (color ill. p 27 Chicago installation; color ill. p. 55)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), p. 226 (color ill. p. 226)

    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), pp. 170, 191 (color ill. p. 171)

    Claudia Schulmerich, “Kitsch as Kitsch can,” (Text in German) Weltexpresso, June 19, 2012 (color ill.) https://weltexpresso.de/index.php/kunst/747-kitsch-as-kitsch-can

    Luther Blissett, “La jouissance du retour en enfance,” (text in French), Beaux Arts/TTM Editions, November 2014, pp. 56, (color ill. p. 57)

    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), pp. 31, 94, 287 (color ill. p. 94, pl. 50)

    Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. pp. 128, 130, 294 (color ill. p. 130)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 128, 130, 294 (color ill. p. 130)

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014) (color ill. p. 73-74, installation)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 65 (color ill. p. 65)

    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), pp. 38, 102, 299, 307 (color ill. p. 102, pl. 50)

    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), pp. 34, 98, 299 (color ill. p. 98, pl. 50)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015) (color ill. p. 40, Kassel installation)

    Olivier van Kuijen, "Zo werd Jeff Koons de op één na rijkste kunstenaar ter wereld," Quote (Netherlands), June 20, 2021 (color ill., Chicago installation) https://www.quotenet.nl/lifestyle/kunst/a36770623/zo-werd-jeff-koons-de-op-een-na-rijkste-kunstenaar-ter-wereld/

    Tatjana Seel, "King of Kitsch," Monsieur, Summer 2022 (color ill. p. 30)

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024), pp. 20, 48 (color ill. pl. 7, p. 19)

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