Dictator

cast iron, wrought iron, bronze, wood, and leather
75 1/4 x 134 3/8 x 108 inches 
191.1 x 341.3 x 274.3 cm 
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2006-2009


Dictator

Details

Dictator

cast iron, wrought iron, bronze, wood, and leather
75 1/4 x 134 3/8 x 108 inches 
191.1 x 341.3 x 274.3 cm 
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2006-2009

EXHIBITED: 

Jeff Koons: Lost in America. Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Doha, Qatar [November 21, 2021 - March 31, 2022] (Edition 2)

Dictator. Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York [August 23, 2010 - January 19, 2011] (Edition 1)

Landscape Revisited. Park Avenue Armory, Historic Rooms, New York, New York [October 29 - November 14, 2009] (Edition 1)

LITERATURE: 

Jeff Koons. Lost in America, exh. cat., ed. Massimiliano Gioni (Milan: Skira, 2021).

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. 202 (color ill. p. 202, fig. 3, Park Avenue Armory installation).

Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015) (color ill. p. 82).

Phillip Tinari, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., in association with Gagosian Gallery, 2015), p. 9 (color ill. p. 9, fig. 3), p. 12.

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. 190 (color ill. p. 190, fig. 3, Park Avenue Armory 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. 198 (color ill. p. 198, fig. 3, Park Avenue Armory installation).

Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 198-199, 201, 202 (color ill. pp. 198-199).

Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 198-199, 201, 202 (color ill. pp. 198-199).

Bill Powers, "The Time Traveler," Muse, Fall 2014.

Jason Edward Kaufman, "King of Kitsch," Black Card Mag, Fall 2013, p. 242.

Bill Powers, Interviews with Artists, (New York: Gagosian, 2013), p. 275.

Abigail Guay, "Text Message from Pennsylvania," The Stranger, April 15, 2010, online (color ill., Park Avenue Armory installation).

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), p. 123, p. 124, as '2006-'.

Calvin Tomkins, "The Turnaround Artist," The New Yorker, April 23, 2007, p. 67.