Seated Ballerina

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
83 x 44 11/16 x 78 5/8 inches
210.8 x 113.5 x 199.7 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2010-2015


Seated Ballerina

Details

Seated Ballerina

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
83 x 44 11/16 x 78 5/8 inches
210.8 x 113.5 x 199.7 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2010-2015

Seated Ballerina

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
83 x 44 11/16 x 78 5/8 inches
210.8 x 113.5 x 199.7 cm
© Jeff Koons
2010-2015

EXHIBITED: 

Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom [February 7 - June 9, 2019] (Edition AP)

Jeff Koons. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California [April 27 - August 18, 2017]

Jeff Koons. Almine Rech Gallery, London, England [October 4, 2016 - January 21, 2017] (Edition 3)

Jeff Koons: Ballerina. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina [April 15 - September 7, 2016] (Edition 2)

LITERATURE: 

"Why art is good for your mental health during Covid-19," The Connexion (Monaco), February 16, 2021, online (color ill.).

Philip Utz, "Rocco Siffredi, Grace Jones, Dita von Teese… le meilleur des interviews cultes et des questions dérangeantes," Numéro (France), December 14, 2020, online (color ill., Ashmolean Museum installation).

Celina Chatruc, "Post-quarantine: art prepares to reconquer public space," La Nación (Argentina), September 12, 2020, online (color ill., Explanada del Malba Museo de Arte installation).

Paul Black, "Jeff Koons Inflated Banality With An Impenetrable Surface The Ashmolean," Artlyst (UK), March 11, 2019, online (color ill., detail).

Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean Advertisement, Royal Academy of Arts Magazine (London: Royal Academy of Art Publishing, Spring 2019, (color ill.).

Franca Toscano, "Jeff Koons dialogues with antiquity at Ashmolean Museum" Blouin Artinfo, March, 2019, (color ill.).

Kate Douglas, "Jeff Koons’s art is glitzy, but does it still have power to shock?," Socialist Worker (UK), February 19, 2019, online (color ill.).

Tim Hughes, "Jeff Koons shines at Ashmolean Museum Oxford," Oxford Mail (England), February 14, 2019, online (color ill.).

Roisin McVeigh, "Reflecting on why the art world loves to hate Jeff Koons," Dazed, February 12, 2019, online (color ill.).

Laura Cumming, "Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean review – a master of deflection," The Guardian (UK), February 10, 2019, online (color ill.).

Andrew Ffrench, "American art legend Jeff Koons visits Ashmolean Museum in Oxford," Oxford Mail (England), February 6, 2019, online (color ill.).

"Jeff Koons at The Ashmolean," Ashmolean Museum (UK), February 5, 2019, (color ill.).

Hadley Freeman, "'Wow, $91m!' – Jeff Koons on blowup dogs, record prices and his row with Paris," The Guardian (UK), February 4, 2019, online (color ill.).

Will Pavia, "Jeff Koons interview: porn, plagiarism and $58 million balloons," The Times Magazine (UK), February 2, 2019, online (color ill.).

Rowan Pelling, "Jeff Koons interview: in the studio with art's greatest showman," The Telegraph (UK), January 12, 2019, online.

Almine Rech Gallery Newsletter 23. Belgium: Almine Rech Gallery, January-May 2019, (color ill. p. 144).

Xa Sturgis and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, exh. cat. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2019), (color ill. cover, detail), p. 10 (color ill. p. 8 detail), p. 54 (color ill. p. 55, detail), (color ill. pp. 56-57).

Peter Aspen, "Jeff Koons: ‘I don’t believe in perfection’," Financial Times (UK), December 7, 2018, online (color ill.).

Adam Sherwin, "Jeff Koons to gatecrash Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum with major exhibition," iNews (UK), October 26, 2018, online (color ill.).

Jose da Silva, "Jeff Koons's balloons, basketballs and ballerinas to head to historic Oxford museum for solo show," The Art Newspaper, October 26, 2018, online (color ill.).

Kathleen Howley, "$35M Penthouse In Florida's Oceana Bal Harbour Tower Hits The Market," Forbes, July 17, 2018, online (color ill., Oceana Bal Harbour, Miami installation).

Nicholas Forrest, "Jeff Koons Plays with the Gaze at Almine Rech Gallery London," Blouin Artinfo, January 2, 2017

Courtney Bowers, "Spot the Seated Ballerina in NYC," Dance Spirit, May 15, 2017

Advertisement, The New York Times Magazine, March 19, 2017, (color ill. back cover, Oceana Bal Harbour installation).

Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Beverly Hills: Gagosian, 2017), (color ill. cover), p. 5, p. 6 (color ill. p. 7), (color ill. p. 8, detail), (color ill. pp. 10-11, Gagosian Gallery installation), (color ill. pp.28-29, Gagosian installation), p. 78.

Twenty Years, 1997-2017, Almine Rech Gallery, (Paris: Almine Rech Gallery, 2017), (color ill. p. 98, Almine Rech installation).

Rose-Maria Gropp, "Koons Kommt Von Können," Frankfurter Allgemeine, December 2016.

Nel-Olivia Waga, "Jeff Koons and Eduardo Costantini On Oceana Bal Harbour's Multimillion-Dollar Art Collection," Forbes, December 9, 2016, online (color ill.), (color ill., rendering at Oceana Bal Harbour), (color ill., Oceana Bal Harbour installation).

Georgina Adam, "A dealer with staying power," The Financial Times (UK), November 6, 2016, online, (color ill., Almine Rech installation).

Elly Parsons, "Ready-made success: Jeff Koons reflects at Almine Rech Gallery, London,” Wallpaper, October 7, 2016, (color ill.).

Elena Cué, "Interview With Jeff Koons," The Huffington Post, July 1, 2016, online (color ill.).

Celina Chatruc, "Cayó el velo y la Ballerina de Koons ya danza entre nosotros," La Nación (Argentina), April 15, 2016, online (color ill., MALBA installation).  

Celina Chatruc, "Jeff Koons: "Los juicios alienan y segregan; todo es perfecto tal cual es"," La Nación (Argentina), April 15, 2016, online (color ill., MALBA installation).

Mar Centenera, "La bailarina de Koons que deslumbra a Buenos Aires," (Text in Spanish) El País, no. 2017 (April 15, 2016), (color ill., MALBA installation).

Silvia Rottenberg, “Jeff Koons showers MALBA with charisma,” Buenos Aires Herald, April 15, 2016 online version and print version (color ill., MALBA installation).

Mercedes Ezquiaga, "Jeff Koons: "No nos deben importar los objetos sino las personas," (text in Spanish) Télam, April 13, 2016, online (color ill.).

Mercedes Pérez Bergliaffa, "Consejo del artista mas caro del mundo-hay que cruzar los limites," Clarín (Argentina), April 13, 2016 (color ill.). online.

ArtReview (November 2016) Issue 68, (color ill.).

Andrew Graham-Dixon, Departures. New York: Time Inc, October 2015, (color ill., Oceana Bal Harbour installation).

Advertisement for Oceana Bal Harbour. The New York Times Magazine, August 2, 2015, (color ill. inside front cover, Oceana Bal Harbour installation).

Ad for Oceana Bal Harbour with Seated Ballerina. New York Times Style Magazine, August 2015, (color ill. pp. 86-87, Oceana Bal Harbour installation).

Advertisement for Oceana Bal Harbour. The New York Times Magazine, July 5, 2015, (color ill. back cover, Oceana Bal Harbour installation).

Emma Brockes, "Jeff Koons: ‘People respond to banal things – they don’t accept their own history’," The Guardian, July 5, 2015.

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. 212 (color ill. p. 212, fig. 5, Oceana Bel Harbour installation, as "Ballerina (Seated)").

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. 200 (color ill. p. 200, fig. 5, rendering, Seat Ballerina as "Ballerina (Seated)").

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. 208 (color ill. p. 208, fig. 5, rendering for Oceana Bal Harbour installation).

British GQ, (color ill. p. 184).