String of Puppies

polychromed wood
42 x 62 x 37 inches
106.7 x 157.5 x 94 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
1988


String of Puppies

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String of Puppies

polychromed wood
42 x 62 x 37 inches
106.7 x 157.5 x 94 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
1988

EXHIBITED: 

Banality. Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany [November 13 – November 30, 1988]

Banality. Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York [November 19 – December 23, 1988]

Banality. Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [December 3, 1988 – January 7, 1989]

A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crises of Representation. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California [May 7 - August 13, 1989] (AP)

Artificial Nature. DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece [June 20 - September 15, 1990]

New Work: A New Generation. San Francisco Art Museum, San Francisco, California [February 22 - April 22, 1990] (Edition 1)

Metropolis. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany [April 20 - July 21, 1991]

From Christo and Jean-Claude to Jeff Koons: John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia [December 12, 1995 - March 17, 1996]

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

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

Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years. C&M Arts, New York, New York [April 7 – June 5, 2004]

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection. Curated by Jeff Koons. New Museum, New York, New York [March 3 – June 6, 2010]

Pop Life – Art in a Material World. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada [June 11 – September 19, 2010]

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

Jeff Koons: Lost in America. Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Doha, Qatar [November 21, 2021 - March 31, 2022] (AP)

LITERATURE: 

Diedrich Diederichsen, "I'll Buy That," (text in English) Parkett, no. 19 (1989), (ill. p. 76)

Lawrence Chua, "Jeff Koons," Review. Flash Art (Milan), no. 114 (January - February 1989), p. 113

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

Sidney Tillim, "Ideology and Difference: Reflections on Olitski and Koons," Arts Magazine 63, no. 7 (March 1989), (ill. p. 50)

Stuart Morgan, Jutta Koether, David Salle, and Sherrie Levine. "Big Fun: Four Reactions to the New Jeff Koons," Artscribe, March/April 1989, p. 47

Eric Gibson, "Decade in Review," Sculpture 8, no. 3 (May/June 1989), (ill. p. 23)

Anne Goldstein and Mary Jane Jacob, A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, Exh. Cat., (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989), pp. 40, 173 (color ill. p. 39)

Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, eds. Jennifer Grausman, Andrew Lohr, Lisa Pasquariello, exh. cat. (Durham: Duke University Museum of Art, 1989), pp. 57-58, 65

New Art. An International Survey, ed. by Andreas Papadakis, Clare Farrow, and Nicola Hodges (New York: Rizzoli, 1991), (color ill. p. 67)

Daniel Pinchbeck, "Kitsch and Tell," Connoisseur 221, no. 958 (November 1991), (color ill. p. 36)

Robert Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 160

Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 35

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, 31, 32

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

Barbaralee Diamonstein, Inside the Art World: Conversations with Barbaralee Diamonstein Artists, Directors, Curators, Collectors, Dealers (New York: Rizzoli, March 5, 1994), p. 133

Stephanie Barron, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001), (color ill. p. 116)

Rainer Crone, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M, 2004), (color ill. p. 88)

John Caldwell, This is About Who We Are, ed. by Thea Westreich (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 2008), p. 190

Helianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, "Profile: Dominique Levy," Whitewall 10 (Winter 2008), (color ill. p. 42)

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), pp. 124-125

David Hopkins, "Inside the Playroom," in Childish Things, exh. cat. (Edinburgh, Fruitmarket Gallery, 2010), p. 46

Nicholas Bourriaud, Jeffrey Deitch, Massimiliano Gioni, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Lisa Phillips, Nancy Spector, and Lynne Tillman, eds. Jarrett Gregory and Sarah Valdez, exh. cat. (New York: The New Museum, 2010), (color ill. p. 152), 159

Allan Kozinn, "Whitney Museum to Open Mondays for Koons Retrospective," The New York Times, August 18, 2014, online (color ill.)

Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 214, 215 (color ill. p. 215)

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. 37, p. 118 (color ill. p. 118, pl. 64), p. 299

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. 30, p. 110 (color ill. p. 110, pl. 64), p. 287

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. 33, p. 114 (color ill. p. 114, pl. 64), p. 302

Michael B. Dougherty, "Jeff Koons" in Art + NYCA Complete Guide to New York City Art and Artists (New York: Museyon Inc., 2016), (color ill. p. 97)

AnnMarie Perl, "A more public arena: Jeff Koons’ Reinvention in the Midst of Reaganism," Association for Art History, June 2020, (color ill. p. 476, installation view)

Margherita Cole, "20 Famous American Artists You Should Know," My Modern Met, November 17, 2021, online (color ill.)

Dario Pappalardo, "Jeff Koons e gli sceicchi dell'arte," La Repubblica (Italy), November 26, 2021, online (color ill.)

Jeff Koons. Lost in America, exh. cat., ed. Massimiliano Gioni (Milan: Skira, 2021), (color ill. pp. 82-83)

Jeff Koons: Mucem. Works from the Pinault Collection (Paris: Éditions Dilecta, 2021), pp. 97, 140

Eric Crosby, Henry J. Heinz II and Akemi May, "Carnegie Museum of Art, Collection Handbook," Carnegie Museum of Art, 2021, (color ill. pp. 306-307)

Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022, online