INFLATABLES

Five Double-Sided Floor Mirrors with Inflatable Flowers (Short Blue, Short Orange, Short Pink, Short Purple, Short Yellow)
1978

vinyl, mirrors, and acrylic
15 3/16 x 23 x 23 inches
38.6 x 58.4 x 58.4 cm

  • New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015

    Florence, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Jeff Koons. Shine, October 2, 2021 – January 31, 2022

  • Thomas Crow, "American Idol," Review of Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014) (color ill. p. 313)

    Fabien Simode, "Mes assistants m'aident a mettre en oeuvre ma vision," Text in French) L'oeil (Paris) 674 (December 2014), p. 45 (color ill. p. 45, Whitney installation)

    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. 43 (color ill. p. 43, fig. 9)

    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), pp. 51, 297 (color ill. p. 51, fig. 5)

    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. 47 (color ill. p. 47, fig. 9)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, exh. cat., eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), pp. 17, 66 (color ill. p. 66, cat. 3; color ill. p. 67; color ill. p. 188

    Ambra Sacchi, "L’estetica scintillante di Jeff Koons in mostra a Palazzo Strozzi. Solo tanta pura apparenza?" ArtsLife (Italy), January 17, 2022 (color ill., Palazzo Strozzi installation) https://artslife.com/2022/01/17/lestetica-scintillante-di-jeff-koons-in-mostra-a-palazzo-strozzi-solo-tanta-pura-apparenza/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lestetica-scintillante-di-jeff-koons-in-mostra-a-palazzo-strozzi-solo-tanta-pura-apparenza 

    "“Shine” di Jeff Koons a Palazzo Strozzi," Report Pistoia (Italy), October 3, 2021 (color ill., Palazzo Strozzi installation) https://www.reportpistoia.com/shine-di-jeff-koons-a-palazzo-strozzi/ 

    Harriet Lloyd-Smith, "At home with Jeff Koons," Wallpaper (London, UK), October 22, 2021 (color ill., Palazzo Strozzi installation) https://www.wallpaper.com/art/at-home-with-jeff-koons-interview 

    Raffaele Quattrone, "Masterpiece Episode 3 (Beecroft - Koons)," Masterpiece, April 28, 2024, (color ill.) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d2wjdn2bQiAtWP1kwzQfopeyaYCLiqFd/view

Inflatable Flower and Bunny (Tall White, Pink Bunny)
1979

vinyl and mirrors
32 x 25 x 19 inches
81.3 x 63.5 x 48.3 cm

  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Jeff Koons, July 1 – August 28, 1988

    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – October 3, 1993

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

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015

  • I. Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, ext. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988), pp. 6, 39 (ill. p. 6, pl. 2), all as "Inflatable Flower and Bunny"

    Richard Lacayo, "Artist Jeff Koons Makes, and Earns, Giant Figures," People Magazine 31, no. 18 (May 8, 1989) (color ill. p. 132, portrait of Jeff with bunny only)

    Rob Van Scheers, m.m.v. Hannah Picard, " Een Varken Voor de Zwijnen. Hoon en hulde voor de nieuwste Newyorkers in het Stedelijk," Elsevier, no. 6, (November 2, 1989), p. 94 (color ill. p. 94, portrait of Jeff with bunny only)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 88 pp. 88, 167 (color ill. fig. 2, p. 88, incorrectly titled 'Tall Yellow'

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 149, as "Inflatable Flower and Bunny (Tall Yellow and Pink Bunny)"

    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. 10, 12, 38, 131 (color ill. p. 38, pl. 2), all as "Inflatable Flower and Bunny (Tall Yellow, Pink Bunny)", illustrated without mirrors

    Tom Tomorrow, "This Modern World," San Francisco Chronicle or Examiner, February 26, 1993 (ill. comic strip illustration)

    Brandon Tayor, The Art of Today, New York 1997, p. 91, illustrated in color 

    Keith Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett, no. 50/51, (December 1997), p. 71 (color polaroid), incorrectly titled 'Tall Yellow'

    "Research and Creation: Inflatable Flower and Bunny / Rabbit," (text in Japanese) InterCommunication (Tokyo), no. 24 (Spring 1998), pp. 13, (color ill. p. 15)

    Rolf E. Breuer, Thomas Krens, David Sylvester, and Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons Easyfun-Ethereal, eds. Lisa Dennison, Robert Rosenblum, Craig Houser, exh. cat. (Berlin and New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2000), p. 31 (color ill. fig. 10, p. 28; color ill. p. 72)

    Eckhard Schneider and Allison Gingeras, Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Bregenz, exh. cat. (Koln: Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001), pp. 12, 113 (color ill. p. 12)

    Jeff Koons/Andy Warhol: Flowers, ed. Daniel Pinchbeck, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian, 2002), p. 24 (color ill. p. 27)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), pp. 24, 149 (color ill. p. 25)

    Valentina Agostinis, "Jeff Koons," Arte (November/ December 2004) (color ill. p. 66, image flipped)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 56, 139, as "Inflatable Flower and Bunny"

    Kelly Devine Thomas, "The Selling of Jeff Koons," ARTnews 104, no. 5 (May 2005), p. 116 (color ill. p. 116)

    Betty Spackman, A Profound Weakness: Christians and Kitsch (Carlisle, United Kingdom: Piquant Editions, 2005), p. 421 (color ill. p. 15, flipped)

    Mary Corrigall, "Startling the world with the unimportant," The Sunday Independent, April 9, 2006

    Kurt Varnedoe, Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock (Princeton, NJ: 2006), p. 39 (color ill. p. 39)

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006), pp. 16-17 (color ill. pp. 16-17)

    Daniella Walsh, "Jeff Koons: On Track," Art and Living 7 (Summer 2007) (color ill. p. 44)

    Josiah McElheny, "Readymade Resistance," Artforum, October 2007 (color ill. p. 329)

    Sebastian Egenhofer, John Gray, Gudrun Inboden, and Herbert Molderings, Re-Object: Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Merz, ed. Eckhard Schneider, exh. cat. (Bregenz: Kunstaus Bregenz, 2007), p. 123

    Jane Ure-Smith, "Banality That Bites," Financial Times, June 2, 2008

    Emanuelle Lequeux "Self made mythe" in "Jeff Koons: Versailles," (French) Beaux Arts éditions, September 2008 (color ill. p. 7)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), p. 51

    John Caldwell, This is About Who We Are: The Collected Writings of John Caldwell, ed. by Thea Westreich (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 2008), p. 185

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), pp. 44, 106 (color ill. p. 44; color ill. p. 106)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), p. 40 (color ill. p. 40, fig. 40, as "Tall Flower and Bunny (Tall White and Pink Bunny)

    Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Pierre Arizzoli-Clementel, Francois Pinault, Edouard Papet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elena Guena, Laurent Le Bon, Michel Houllebecq, Jeff Koons: Versailles, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions Xavier Barral, 2009), pp. 123, 136

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), pp. 49, 583 (color ill. p. 67)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist (foreword and conversation), Frederic Tuten, Arthur C. Danto, and Dorothea von Hantelmann, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, eds. Kathryn Rattee and Melissa Larner, exh. cat. (London: Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books, 2009) (color ill. p. 70)

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), pp. 31, 39 (color ill. p. 39)

    George Pendle, "Jeff Koons Welcome to the Funhouse," The Graffiti Magazine, Summer 2011, p. 23

    Jorg Reckhenrich, Martin Kupp and Jamie Anderson, "Made in Heaven - produced on Earth: Creative Leadership as Art of Projection," Journal of Business Strategy 32, no. 4 (2011), p. 14

    Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, "U.S. Giant Jeff Koons," Harper’s Bazaar Magazine (China) Art edition, January 2012, p. 90 (color ill. p. 90)

    George Pendle, "Jeff Koons Welcome to the Funhouse," The American Visual Arts in China, Summer/Fall 2012, p. 40

    Max Hollein, Scott Rothkopf, Joachim Pissarro, Matthias Ulrich, and Jeff Fraiman, Jeff Koons: The Painter, eds. Matthias Ulrich, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012) p. 59 (color ill. p. 59, fig. 6)

    Carl Swanson, "The Age of Jeff Koons," New York Magazine, May 13, 2013 (color ill. p. 28)

    Jerry Saltz, "Creator and Destroyer of Worlds. Taking in the mad perfectionism of Jeff Koons," New York Magazine, June 30 - July 13, 2013, p. 102

    Jeff Koons, "What Inspires Me is Feeling," Art in America, June 18, 2014, p. 42 www.artinamericamagazine.com/newsfeatures/magazine/jeffkoonsmuse/ 

    John Waters, "Jeff Koons in Conversation with John Waters," Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2014 (color ill. p. 94)

    Peter Schjeldahl, "Selling Points," The New Yorker, July 7-14, 2014 (color ill. p. 92, Courtesy Broad Art Foundation)

    Richard Lacayo, "Show Me the Bunny: As he closes in on 60, Jeff Koons finally gets his really big show," TIME Magazine 184, no. 1 (July 7-14, 2014), (color ill. p. 91)

    Jae-Su Kim, "A Magician of Creation and Destruction," (Text in Japanese) Art in Asia (Japan), August 2014 (color ill.) 

    Thomas Crow, "American Idol," Review of Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014) (color ill. p. 313) 

    Jeff Koons, “The Words,” ed. Michael Polsinelli and Sasha Burkhanova, Garage Magazine (London), Fall/Winter 2014 (color ill. p. 89)

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012 (October 2014) (color ill. p. 35; color ill. p. 36)

    Fabien Simode, "Mes assistants m'aident a mettre en oeuvre ma vision," Text in French) L'oeil (Paris) 674 (December 2014), p. 45 (color ill. p. 45, Whitney installation) 

    Luther Blissett, “La jouissance du retour en enfance,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, p. 48

    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), pp. 17, 39, 42, 233, 285 (color ill. p. 39, pl. 1; color ill. p. 42, fig. 4, Gagosian 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), pp. 47, 50, 297 (color ill. p. 47, pl. 1; color ill. p. 50, fig. 4, Gagosian installation)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 76, 79 (color ill. p. 77)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 76,79 (color ill. p. 77)

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 5 (color ill. p. 5)

    Jeff Koons pour les enfants (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014) (color ill. p. 17)

    Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: New Paintings and Sculpture, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2014), p. 5, as "Inflatable Flower and Bunny"

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014) (color ill. p. 62)

    Michaël Amy, "A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing," Sculpture 34, no. 2 (March 2015), pp. 55, 57 (color ill. p. 53)

    Marco Enrico Giacometti, “Arriva al Guggenheim di Bilbao la monumentale retrospettiva di Jeff Koons. Tante foto dalla preview della mostra che apre al pubblico questa settimana,” Artribune, June 8, 2015 

    Amelie Abraham, "Jeff Koons is the Kanye West of the Contemporary Art World," VICE, July 1, 2015 (color ill.)

    "The exquisite process of Jeff Koons," Christie's, July 21, 2015 (color ill.)

    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), pp. 19, 43, 46, 297 (color ill. p. 43, pl. 1; color ill. p. 46, fig. 4, Gagosian installation)

    The Broad Collection, ed. Joanne Heyler with Ed Schad and Chelsea Beck (Los Angeles: The Broad, Delmonico Books an imprint of Prestel Publishing, 2015), p. 85

    E.P. Cutler and Julien Tomasello, Art + Fashion: Collaborations and Connections Between Icons (San Francisco, Chronicle Books LLC, 2015), p. 112

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 13 (color ill. p. 12)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of the Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), pp. 17, 122, 123 (color ill. p. 17)

    Elena Cué, "Interview With Jeff Koons," The Huffington Post, July 1, 2016 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elena-cue/interview-with-jeff-koons_b_10777948.html 

    Carol Yu, "Jeff Koons?" Ravenel, no 20 (Spring 2017) (color ill. 56)

    Robert Storr, Interviews on Art (London: HENI Publishing, 2017) (color ill. p. 386)

    Roberta Smith, "Stop Hating Jeff Koons," The New York times, May 17, 2019 (color ill.) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/arts/jeff-koons-auction-christies.html 

    Xa Sturgis and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, exh. cat. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2019), p. 25 (color ill. p. 26)

    "Jeff Koons dazzles and provokes his art. His work breaks auction records," Tyden (Czech Republic), January 21, 2020 (color ill.) https://www.tyden.cz/rubriky/kultura/umeni/jeff-koons-svym-umenim-oslnuje-i-provokuje-jeho-dilo-trha-aukcni-rekordy_538211.html 

    Millie Walton, "Mirror Man," Lux, Autumn Winter 2021/22, cover, p. 28

    Jeon Eun-ji, "Between geek and art, kitsch artist Jeff Koons," Handmaker (Korea), November 5, 2021 (color ill.) http://www.handmk.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=11883 

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), pp. 38, 40 (color ill. p. 38)

    Massimiliano Gioni, Il desiderio messo a nudo, Conversazioni con Jeff Koons, (Monza, IT: Johan & Levi editore, 2021) (color ill. p. 20)

    Heinz-Norbert Jocks, "Jeff Koons: Der Mythos Des Apollon," Kunstforum, January-February 2023 (color ill. p. 174) https://www.kunstforum.de/artikel/jeff-koons-6/

    Gesine Borcherdt, Dream On Baby (Nuremburg: Institut für moderne Kunst, 2023) (color ill. p. 170)

    Raffaele Quattrone, "Masterpiece Episode 3 (Beecroft - Koons)," Masterpiece, April 28, 2024, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d2wjdn2bQiAtWP1kwzQfopeyaYCLiqFd/view

Inflatable Flower (Tall Orange) Corner
1978

sponges, mirrors, and acrylic 
21 3/8 x 12 x 12 inches
54.3 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm

Inflatable Flower (Tall Yellow)
1979

vinyl, mirrors, and acrylic
16 x 12 x 19 inches 
40.6 x 30.5 x 48.3 cm  

  • Miami, Rubell Family Collection, Beg Borrow and Steal, December 2, 2009 – August 27, 2010; Palm Springs, Palm Springs Art Museum, February 2 – June 2, 2013; Roanoke, Taubman Museum of Art, October 11, 2014 – January 10, 2015

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 –October 19, 2014

  • Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 164

    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, 1996), pp. 63, 90 (ill. p. 64, fig. 3)

    Julie L. Belcove, "Modern Family," W (April 2004) (color ill. p. 315, installation)

    Mark Coetzee, Rubell Family Collection: Not Afraid (London: Phaidon, 2004), (color ill. p. 157, installation; color ill. p. 160, installation; color ill. p. 180, installation), listed as Untitled, 1979

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), p. 69 (color ill. p. 69)

    Sana, "Symbols Tell the Story,” (Text in Japanese) Vogue (Japan), no. 125 (January 2010) (color ill. p. 23) 

    "Concept Game," (ext in Mandarin) Harper's Bazaar Art (China), March 2011 (color ill. p. 137)

    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), pp. 17, 41, 233, 285 (color ill. p. 41, pl. 5)

    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), pp. 49, 297 (color ill. p. 49, pl. 5)

    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), pp. 19, 45, 301 (color ill. p. 45, pl. 5)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 14 (color ill. p. 15)

Inflatable Flower (Tall Purple)
1979

vinyl, mirrors, and acrylic
16 × 12 × 18 inches
40.6 × 30.5 × 45.7 cm

  • Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions Privées: Collections particulières d'art moderne et contemporain en France, December 14, 1995 – March 24, 1996

    New York, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons Andy Warhol Flowers, November 11 –December 21, 2002

  • Passions Privées: Collections particulières d'art moderne et contemporain en France

    Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, Cur. Suzanne Pagé, December 14, 1995 – March 24, 1996

    Jeff Koons/Andy Warhol: Flowers, ed. Daniel Pinchbeck, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian, 2002), p 4 (color ill., installation)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 13, 135 (color ill. p. 13, detail, as "Inflatable Flower"; color ill. p. 135, detail, as "Inflatable Flower")

    Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 5, ed. Marybeth Sollins (New York: Abrams Books/Art21, Inc., 2009), p. 90 (color ill. p. 90)

    Tadashi Kobayashi, "Essay (no. 3) on Kokufu Osamu’s, Engine in the Water," (Text in Japanese) Bulletin of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, no. 14 (March 25, 2020) (ill. p. 23)

    Pietro Mini, "a dialogue with artist jeff koons: trust in yourself!," Designboom, September 28, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.designboom.com/art/dialogue-artist-jeff-koons-trust-in-yourself-09-28-2021/

Inflatable Flowers (Short Pink, Tall Yellow)
1979

vinyl, mirrors, and acrylic
16 x 24 x 19 inches
40.6 x 61 x 48.3 cm
 

  • Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 28, 1992 – January 3, 1993; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22 – February 28, 1993; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993

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

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 4 – December 12, 2004; Helsinki, Helsinki City Art Museum, January 28 – April 10, 2005

  • Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 164

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 149

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 110

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), p. 98

    Jeff Koons/Andy Warhol: Flowers, ed. Daniel Pinchbeck, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian, 2002), p. 24 (color ill. p. 26)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), p. 146

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), p. 78 (color ill. p. 78)

    Francis Naumann, Jeff Koons: New Paintings, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (Beverly Hills: Gagosian Gallery, 2010), p. 3 (color ill. p. 3, fig. 2)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 14, 173 (color ill. p. 14, fig. 1)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 231 (color ill. p. 231)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 231 (color ill. p. 231)

    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. 297

    Alexandra Abraham, "Is Jeff Koons Actually an Artist?" The Collector, March 4, 2023 (color ill.) https://www.thecollector.com/is-jeff-koons-actually-an-artist/

Inflatable Flowers (Short Blue, Short Yellow)
1979

vinyl and mirrors 
16 x 24 x 18 inches 
40.6 x 61 x 45.7 cm

Inflatable Flowers (Short White, Tall Purple)
1979

vinyl and mirrors 
16 x 25 x 19 inches 
40.6 x 63.5 x 48.3 cm

  • Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, September 30 – November 29, 1997 

    Humlebaek, Denmark, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Flower as Image, September 10, 2004 – January 16, 2005

    Riehen, Foundation Beyeler, Flower Myth – From Vincent Van Gogh to Jeff Koons, February 27 – May 22, 2005

    London, Newport Street Gallery, Jeff Koons: Now, May 18 – October 16, 2016

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

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koons, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 1997), p. 82 (color ill. p. 7)

    L'Envers du décor, Dimensions décoratives dans l'art du XXe siècle (Villeneuve d'Ascq: Musee d'Art Moderne Lille Metropole, 1998) (color ill. no. 28)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009) (color ill. p. 76)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), p. 174 (color ill. p. 174)

    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), pp. 49, 297 (color ill. p. 49, pl. 4)

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 4 (color ill. p. 4)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 16 (color ill. p. 16)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), pp. 7, 8, 12, 99 (color ill. p. 13; color ill. p. 99)

    Florence Dartois, "1997, Jeff Koons : "Pour moi, l'art est de l'ordre du rationnel"," Institut National d l'Audiovisuel (France), April 10, 2019 https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/1997-jeff-koons-pour-moi-l-art-est-de-l-ordre-du-rationnel/

Inflatable Flowers (Four Tall Purple with Plastic Figures)
1978

vinyl, mirrors, and plastic
16 x 57 1/4 x 19 inches
40.6 x 145.4 x 48.3 cm

Inflatable Flowers (Short Pink, Tall Purple)
1979

vinyl, mirrors, and acrylic 
16 x 25 x 19 inches 
40.6 x 63.5 x 48.3 cm 

  • San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014

  • Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 164

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), introduction by Robert Rosenblum, p. 149

    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. 10, as "Inflatable Flowers of 1979", 37, 131 (color ill. p. 37, pl. 1)

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006), pp. 16-17 (color ill. pp. 16-17)

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), p. 31

    Tom Simpson, “King of Pop: 35 years of Jeff Koons art-in-pictures,” The Guardian, June 25, 2014 (color ill.) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/jun/25/king-of-pop-30-years-of-jeff-koons-art-in-pictures

    Andrew Russeth, "Watch the Throne," Gallerist, June 26, 2014 (color ill.) http://galleristny.com/2014/06/watch-the-throne/

    Stephanie Murg, "Jeff Koons' Technicolor takeover of the Whitney Museum," Wallpaper (United Kingdom), June 26, 2014 (color ill.) https://www.wallpaper.com/art/jeff-koons-technicolor-takeover-of-the-whitney-museum

    A.M.B., "The world according to Jeff," The Economist (London), July 2, 2014 (color ill.) http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/07/jeff-koons-whitney

    Blake Gopnik, "Jeff Koons: A Genius from Day One," Artnet, August 18, 2014 (color ill.) http://news.artnet.com/art-world/jeff-koons-a-genius-from-day-one-79880

    Thomas Crow, "American Idol," Review of Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014), September 2014 (color ill. p. 311)

    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), pp. 17, 41, 233, 285 (color ill. p. 41, pl. 4)

    "Plastic Fantastic," (Text in German) Kunstbeeld, De Liefde, no. 11 (2014) (color ill. p. 36)

    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), pp. 19, 45, 301 (color ill. p. 45, pl. 4)

    Tadashi Kobayashi, "Essay (no. 3) on Kokufu Osamu’s, Engine in the Water," (Text in Japanese) Bulletin of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, no. 14 (March 25, 2020) (ill. p. 23)

Inflatable Flowers (Tall Purple, Tall Orange)
1979

vinyl, mirrors, and acrylic
16 x 25 x 19 inches 
40.6 x 63.5 x 48.3 cm 

  • Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 28, 1992 – January 3, 1993; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22 – February 28, 1993; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993

    Athens School of Fine Arts, Everything That's Interesting is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, January 20 – April 20, 1996

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration, December 15, 1999 – May 15, 2000

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now, June 22 – December 31, 2004 

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015

  • Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 164

    Jeff Koons, eds. Jens Erik Sorensoen and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Denmark: Aarhaus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 63 (color ill. p. 63, pl. 45)

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), pp. 21, 110 (color ill. p. 21)

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), pp. 3-5, 55, 99 (color ill. p. 55)

    Everything That's Interesting is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, ed. Jeffrey Deitch exh. cat. (Ostfilden: Cantz/ Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 1996), p. 151 (color ill. p. 150, another version illustrated)

    Jeff Koons/Andy Warhol: Flowers, ed. Daniel Pinchbeck, exh. cat.(New York: Gagosian, 2002) (ill. p. 50)

    Monument to Now, ed. Jeffrey Deitch, exh. cat. (Athens, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2004), pp. 202-203 (color ill. pp. 202-203)

    Mia Fineman, "My Big Fat Postmodern Wedding," The New York Times Magazine, January 8, 2006 (color ill. p. 74)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), (color ill. p. 78)

    Fabien Simode, "Mes assistants m'aident a mettre en oeuvre ma vision," Text in French) L'oeil (Paris)
    674 (December 2014), p. 45 (color ill. p. 45, Whitney installation)

    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), pp. 17, 40, 233, 285 (color ill. p. 40, pl. 2)

    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), pp. 48, 297 (color ill. p. 48, pl. 2)

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 4 (color ill. p. 4)

    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), pp. 19, 44, 301 (color ill. p. 44, pl. 2)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 18 (color ill. pp. 18-19)

    An Album: Lietta & Dakis Joannou, Home Installations 1998-2019 (Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2019) (color ill. pp. 44-46, 74-75, 78-79, 155, 156)

    Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words (Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2019), pp. 23, 34, 121 (color ill. pp. 34-35)

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024), pp. 19, 24, 28, (ill. p. 24, installation; color ill. pp. 25-26, detail; color ill. pl. 1, pp. 28-29, detail)

Inflatable Flowers (Tall White, Tall White)
1979

vinyl and mirrors 
17 1/2 x 25 x 19 inches 
44.5 x 63.5 x 48.3 cm 

Inflatable Flowers (Short Blue, Tall White)
1979

vinyl and mirrors
16 x 25 x 19 inches 
40.6 x 63.5 x 48.3 cm 

  • Roberta Smith. "Rituals of Consumption" in Art in America. New York: Brant Art Publicans, May 1988, (color ill. p.164)

    I. Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988), pp. 6, 39 (ill. p. 6, pl. 1) 

    Jeffrey Deitch and Dan Friedman, Artificial Nature, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 1990), pp. 83 (color ill. p. 59, polaroid images) 

    Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 1992, p. 15, illustrated in color (incorrectly titled 'Short Blue, Tall Yellow') 

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007) (color ill. p. 71)

    Nicholas Bourriaud, Jeffrey Deitch, Massimiliano Gioni, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Lisa Phillips, Nancy Spector, and Lynne Tillman, Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons, eds. Jarrett Gregory and Sarah Valdez, exh. cat. (New York: The New Museum, 2010), p. 155 (color ill. p. 155)

Inflatable Flowers (Tall Yellow, Tall Orange)
1979

vinyl and mirrors 
16 x 25 x 19 inches 
40.6 x 63.5 x 48.3 cm 

  • Munich, Kunstraum Daxler, 1992

    Athens, Athens School of Fine Art, Everything That's Interesting is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, January 20 – April 20, 1996; Copenhagen, Museum of Modern Art; New York, Guggenheim Museum SoHo

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014

  • Jeffrey Deitch and Dan Friedman, Artificial Nature, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 1990), pp. 83 (color ill. p. 59, polaroid images)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 164

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 149

    Selected Works from the Early Eighties, exh. cat. (Munich: K-raum Daxer un die Kunstler, 1992), pp. 4, 18 (color ill. p. 10, installation; color ill. p. 11, installation)

    The Dakis Joannou Collection: Everything That's Interesting is New, exh. cat., ed. Jeffrey Deitch (Ostfilden: Cantz/ DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 1996), p. 151 (color ill. p. 150)

    Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 1979-1999, ed. Katerina Gregos. exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation, 1999), pp. 46, 47 (color ill. p. 47), all as "Inflatable Flowers, 1980"

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), p. 71 (color ill. p. 71; ill. p. 73)

    Nicholas Bourriaud, Jeffrey Deitch, Massimiliano Gioni, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Lisa Phillips, Nancy Spector, and Lynne Tillman, Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons, eds. Jarrett Gregory and Sarah Valdez, exh. cat. (New York: The New Museum, 2010), p. 155 (color ill. p. 155)

    Pietro Mini, "a dialogue with artist jeff koons: trust in yourself!," Designboom, September 28, 2021 https://www.designboom.com/art/dialogue-artist-jeff-koons-trust-in-yourself-09-28-2021/

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021)

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