Gazing Ball (Manet Luncheon on the Grass)

oil on canvas, glass, and aluminum
63 x 81 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches
160 x 206.4 x 37.5 cm
© Jeff Koons
2014-2015


Gazing Ball (Manet Luncheon on the Grass)

Details

Gazing Ball (Manet Luncheon on the Grass)

oil on canvas, glass, and aluminum
63 x 81 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches
160 x 206.4 x 37.5 cm
© Jeff Koons
2014-2015

EXHIBITED: 

Luncheon on the Grass, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles [February 19 -  April 23, 2022]

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

Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York [November 9 - December 23, 2015]

LITERATURE: 

"Jeff Koons on Desire, Beauty, the Vastness of the Universe, and the Intimacy of Right Here, Right Now," Artspace, May 21, 2020, online (color ill.).

Jil Wu, "At the same time, how do you think the work is plagiarized? Or was it misappropriated?," BeautiMode (China), May 7, 2020, online (color ill.).

"Handu Clothes House X Tmall Gathering Day...," Tom (China), May 10, 2018, (color ill.).

Vogue Ukraine, July 2017, Text in Ukrainian, (color ill. p. 67).

Jena Friedman, "Why Jeff Koons's Blue 'Gazing Balls' Give Mona Lisa Something New to Smirk About," Artnet News, June 22, 2017

Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Beverly Hills: Gagosian, 2017), (color ill. pp.24-25, Gagosian installation), p. 26 (color ill. pp.25-26), p. 78.

Joachim Pissarro, Alyssa Ovadis, and Donatien Grau, Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball Paintings (New York: Gagosian, 2017), (color ill. pp. 34-35, Gagosian Gallery installation), (color ill. pp. 56-57, Gagosian Gallery installation), p. 69 (color ill. pp. 68-69, pl. 23), (color ill. pp. 70-71, detail), p. 110.

Alex Needham, "Jeff Koons on his Gazing Ball Paintings: 'It's not about copying'," The Guardian, July 5, 2015, (color ill.).

Ralph Gardner Jr., "The Work and Passions of Jeff Koons," The Wall Street Journal Magazine, May 5, 2015, pp. 12, 64-82, (color ill.).