Balloon Flower (Blue)

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
113 1/8 x 131 7/8 x 105 1/8 inches
287.3 x 335 x 267 cm
© Jeff Koons
5 unique versions (Blue, Magenta, Yellow, Orange, Red)
1995-2000


Balloon Flower

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Balloon Flower (Blue)

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
113 1/8 x 131 7/8 x 105 1/8 inches
287.3 x 335 x 267 cm
© Jeff Koons
5 unique versions (Blue, Magenta, Yellow, Orange, Red)
1995-2000

Balloon Flower (Magenta)

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
113 1/8 x 131 7/8 x 105 1/8 inches
287.3 x 335 x 267 cm

© Jeff Koons
5 unique versions (Blue, Magenta, Yellow, Orange, Red)
1995-2000

Balloon Flower (Yellow)

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
113 1/8 x 131 7/8 x 105 1/8 inches
287.3 x 335 x 267 cm
© Jeff Koons
5 unique versions (Blue, Magenta, Yellow, Orange, Red)
1995-2000

Balloon Flower (Orange)

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
113 1/8 x 131 7/8 x 105 1/8 inches
287.3 x 335 x 267 cm

© Jeff Koons
5 unique versions (Blue, Magenta, Yellow, Orange, Red)
1995-2000

Balloon Flower (Red)

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
113 1/8 x 131 7/8 x 105 1/8 inches
287.3 x 335 x 267 cm

© Jeff Koons
5 unique versions (Blue, Magenta, Yellow, Orange, Red)
1995-2000

EXHIBITED: 

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

Jeff Koons. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland. [May 13, 2012 - October 2, 2012] (Blue)

Jeff Koons: Versailles. Château de Versailles, Versailles, France [October 9, 2008 - April 1, 2009] (Yellow)

Jeff Koons: Celebration. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany [October 31, 2008 - February 8, 2009] (Magenta)

Balloon Flower. 7 World Trade Center, New York, New York [2006 - extended loan] (Red)

Daimler Art Collection. Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany [1999] (Blue)

LITERATURE: 

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, "Euphoric Enthusiasm," Parkett (no. 50-51) December 1997, (ill. p. 93, work in progress)

Christina Wedenburg, "Aufgeblasene Luftballon-Kunst aus politiertem Stahl: Jeff Koons’ Balloon Flower am Postdamer Platz," Berliner Morgenpost February 12, 2000, (color ill. p. 19) (Blue)

"Schillernde Riesenblume fur den Potsdamer Platz," Berliner Morgenpost [Berlin] February 12, 2000, (color ill. p. 42) (Blue)

"Aufgeblasene Luftballon-Kunst aus politiertem Stahl: Jeff Koons." Berliner Morgenpost [Berlin] February 12, 2000, (color ill. p. 19) (Blue)

"Interview with Jeff Koons," Art, April 2000, (color ill. pp. 78-79) (Blue)

"Was wuerde Picasso dazu sagen." Art, April 2000, (color ill. pp. 78-79) (Blue) [Text in German]

Jeff Koons Andy Warhol: Flowers, exh. cat., (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002), (color ill. p. 47) (Magenta)

Carol Vogel, “Gagosian Adds to London Space,” The New York Times, December 12, 2003

Jeff Koons, exh. cat., (Naples: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 2003), (color ill. pp. 88-89) (Magenta)

Judd Tully, “Striking it Rich,” Art & Auction, May 2004, (color ill. p. 141)

Janet Kutner, “Passion for Art Dictates Flow of Couple's Lives,” Dallas Sunday Morning News, August 28, 2005, (color ill. p. 1G) (Magenta)

"Beyond Generous," Dallas Morning News, February 17, 2005, (ill.) (Magenta)

Kutner Janet, "DMA Gift a Work of Heart," Dallas Morning News, February 16, 2005, (color ill. p. 16A) (Magenta)

Cheryl Kaplan, “Koons & McCartney,” Monopol no. 3 (June-July 2006), (color ill. pp. 80-88) (Blue)

Joshua Rhett Miller, “Just the Beginning,” Metro, May 24, 2006, (color ill. cover) (Red)

David Dunlap, “Luster of 7 World Trade Center Has Tattered Reminder of 9/11,” The New York Times, May 24, 2006, (ill.) (Red)

Robert Rosenblum, “Grounds for Reflection,” House and Garden, January 2006, (color ill. pp. 106-107) (Magenta)

Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections, exh. cat., (Dallas Museum of Art, 2007), (color ill. pp. 262-263) (Magenta)

Esther Kahn, “Splendor in the Grass,” Art + Auction, May 2007, (color ill. p. 155)

Celebration: Jeff Koons, exh. cat., (Berlin: Neue Nationalgalerie, 2008), (color ill. pp. 34 (detail), 59, 96 (detail)) (Magenta)

Philippe Dagen, "Evenement: Jeff Koons Versailles," Artpress, November 2008, (color ill. p. 24, installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, Yellow)

Michael Houellebecq, "Jeff Koons." Art World issue 7 (October/November 2008), (color ill. pp. 10, 35, installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, Yellow)

Francois Monnin, "Jeff Koons une star a Versailles," la Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot, no. 37 (October 31, 2008), (color ill. p. 232, installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, Yellow)

Raphael Morata, "Jeff Koons au chateau de Versailles," Point de Vue, September 17, 2008, (color ill. p. 62, installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, Yellow)

"Un roi kitsch a Versailles," Dailymatin Plus, September 15, 2008, (color ill. p. 20, installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, with the artist, Yellow)

Valerie Duponchelle and Sebastien Le Fol, "Jeff Koons a Versailles: Aillagon s'explique," Le Figaro, September 11, 2008, (color ill. p. 25, installation view, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 2008, Yellow)

Mary Straub, “Move in and Around Manhattan,” The New York Sun, August 18, 2008

Souren Melikian, “Stellar Results for Christie’s Mask Deep Fault Lines in Market,” International Herald Tribune, The Global Edition of The New York Times, Culture Section July 24, 2008

Carol Vogel, “Win One, Lose One for Dallas Museum,” The New York Times, June 27, 2008

Julia Reed, “Mi casa es su casa,” Vogue Living, Spring-Summer 2008, (color ill. p. 45)

Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzworth, (Cologne, 2008), (color ill. pp. 9 (detail, with the artist, Red), 33 (installation view, 7 World Trade Center, New York, Red), 424, (Blue), 425 (Magenta))

Ken Smith, Ken Smith: Landscape Architect, (New York: The Monacelli Press, 2009), p. 154 (installation view, 7 World Trade Center, New York, Red)

"Clothes That Pop," Glamour, November 2009, (color ill. pp. 188-189, installation view, 7 World Trade Center, New York, Red)

Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, exh. cat., (London: Serpentine Gallery, 2009), (color ill. p. 74) (Magenta)

Craig Raine, "Looney Koons," Evening Standard, June 4, 2009, (color ill. pp. 26-27) (Magenta)

Blitzen-Benz Bang - Daimler Art Collection: Mixed Media, Sculptures, Commissioned Works, ed. Renate Wiehager (Ostfildern, 2009), (color ill. back cover, pp. 316-317, 329, installation view, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, 1999, Blue)

“Celebration, Childhood, Colour, and Simplicity: Koons’s Balloon Flower (Blue),” Christie’s International Highlights, Winter 2010, (color ill. p. 147)

Charlotte Burns, “Evidence grows of market revival,” The Art Newspaper, December 2010, (color ill. cover) (Magenta, Blue)

Michael Kimmelman, “Culture of Recession? Or Vice Versa?” The New York Times, December 16, 2010 (color ill.) (Blue)

“Koons: Balloon Flower (Blue),” Christie’s Private View, November/December 2010, (color ill. pp. 188- 125) (Blue)

“Property From The Daimler Art Collection: Jeff Koons, Balloon Flower (Blue),” Christie’s A Season of Masterpieces, November 10, 2010, (color ill. pp. 38-47)

Andrew Russeth, “The Blue Flower: How Jeff Koons’s 'Balloon' Scupture Could Make History, Again, at Christie’s,” Artinfo.com, October 29, 2010, (color ill.) (Blue)

Judith Benhamou-Huet, Les Oeuvres D'art les Plus Chères du Monde, (France: Editions du Chêne 2010), (color ill. p. 119) (Magenta)

Peter Richter, "I ♥ Jeff Koons," BMW Magazine Autumn 2010, (color ill. p. 61) (Magenta)

“Jeff Koons the Top Selling Living Artist,” Harper’s Bazaar Men’s Style [Beijing Edition] February 2010, (color ill. p. 159, installation view, 7 World Trade Center, New York, Red)

Scott Rothkopf [supervised by Bernard Blistène], Jeff Koons: La Retrospective, France: Centre Pompidou, 2014, pp. 150, 157 (Yellow, Blue, not exhibited)

Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal, (Hove, England: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 150 (Yellow) [French Edition]

Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal, (China: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 150 (Yellow) [English Edition]

Naomi Campbell, "Jeff Koons," Interview Germany, November 2012, p. 102 (Magenta)

Carlotta Loverni Botta, "Koons at the Fondation Beyeler," Vogue Italia, June 15, 2012

Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons, (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 62