POPEYE

Acrobat
2003-2009

polychromed aluminum, galvanized steel, wood, and straw 
90 1/8 x 58 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches 
228.9 x 148 x 64.8 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009 (edition 2)

    Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jeff Koons: Popeye Sculpture, September 16 – November 20, 2010 (AP)

    London, Newport Street Gallery, Jeff Koons: Now, May 18 – October 16, 2016 (edition 1)

    Porquerolles, Villa Carmignac, The Imaginary Sea, May 20 – October 17, 2021 (AP)

    Porquerolles, Villa Carmignac, SEA, POP & SUN, April 25 – November 1, 2026 (AP)

  • Laura Lazzaroni, "Jeff Koons," L'Uomo Vogue, no. 381 (May/June 2007), (color ill., work in progress at studio)

    "The Artist At Child's Play," The New York Times, July 3, 2009, cover, C1-30

    Ute Thon, "Spieglien, Spieglien an der Wand," Art Kunstmagazin 1 (Germany) (October 2008), (color ill. p. 41, work in progress at studio, partial view)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Tachen, 2008) (color ill. p. 535)

    Jonathan Jones, "Not Just The King of Kitsch," TheGuardian, London, June 30, 2009 (color ill. p. 8)

     Afrika Akbar, "Koons Brings His 'Toons to Town," The Independent, London, July 1, 2009 (color ill. p. 11, partial, installation view at Serpentine)

    Rachel Campbell-Johnson, "How Do You Like Your Lobster?" The London Times, July 1, 2009, (color ill. p. 15)

    Ben Lewis, "Popeye the Eye-Popper," Evening Standard, July 2, 2009 (color ill. p. 34)

    Charles Darwent, "Behind the banality, still the big questions" in The Independent on Sunday, London, July 5, 2009 (color ill. p. 53, partial, exhibition view)

    Waldemar Januszczak, "Toying with Us," The Sunday Times, London, July 5, 2009 (color ill. p. 13); (color ill.)

    Philip Hensher, "Jeff's giant lobster is a red herring," The Mail on Sunday, July 19, 2009 (color ill. p. 17, Serpentine Gallery Installation)

    Colm Toibin, "Plastic Fantastic," Esquire, August 2009 (color ill. p. 69)

    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), p. 77 (color ill. p. 55)

    Chris Garlick, "Jeff Koons," art of England, 2009 (color ill. p. 44)

    Cloe Piccoli, "Jeff Koons," Condé Nast Traveler, 2009, p. 104 (color ill. p. 103, Serpentine installation)

    Isabelle de Wavrin, "La Biennale electrise la capitale," (Text in French) Beaux Arts (September 2010) (color ill. cover; color ill., table of contents, Royal Academy installation)

    "Jeff Koons the Top Selling Artist," (Text in Mandarin) Harper’s Bazaar (China), February 2010 (color ill. p. 156)

    Hugo Gasprad, “I Am What I Am,” alt., Winter 2010 (color ill. p. 85)

    Anna Sansom and Lynn Lee, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Mandarin) Modern China Weekly (China), 2010 (color ill. p. 109)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010) (color ill. p. 19), p. 3

    "news: Jeff Koons - 'Popeye Sculpture' Solo Exhibition @ Galerie Jerome de Noirmont,” (Text in French) SJ (France) (2010), (color ill., Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation)

    Sim Eunlog, "Jeff Koons Desire of Love," (Text in Korean) Joong-ang (Korea) August 2011 (color ill., Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation)

    George Pendle, "Jeff Koons Welcome to the Funhouse," The Graffiti Magazine, Summer 2011 (color ill. 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. 22

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

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. p. 120)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (Paris: Flammarion, 2014) (color ill. p. 120)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons (Slovakia: Taschen, 2015) (color ill. p. 7)

    Louisa Buck, "Jeff Koons: Now at Newport Street Gallery preview," The Telegraph (UK), May 13, 2016 (color ill.) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/12/paris-finally-finds-home-jeff-koons-giant-tulips-purist-claims/

    Farah Nayeri, "Damien Hirst to Open a Jeff Koons Show at His London Museum," The New York Times, May 16, 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/arts/design/damien-hirst-to-open-a-jeff-koons-show-at-his-london-museum.html

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), pp. 5, 7, 66, 103 (color ill. p. 67; color ill. pp. 90-91, Newport Street Gallery installation; color ill. p. 103)

    P.P., "Koons, Matisse, Dora Maar, Klein… Les œuvres "cultes" qu'il faut voir à la Villa Carmignac à Porquerolles," Nice-Matin (France), May 25, 2021 (Fondation Carmignac installation) https://www.nicematin.com/culture/koons-matisse-dora-maar-klein-les-oeuvres-cultes-quil-faut-voir-a-la-villa-carmignac-a-porquerolles-688817

    Claude Lorin, "Programme culturel -Quatrième saison de la Villa Carmignac, La Mer Imaginaire," Journal Zibeline (France), April 17, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.journalzibeline.fr/programme/la-mer-imaginaire/,

    Harriet Lloyd-Smith, "Underwater art exhibition on Porquerolles island is submerged in intrigue," Wallpaper (London, UK), June 10, 2021 (color ill., Fondation Carmignac installation, Photo by Marc Domage) https://www.wallpaper.com/art/la-mer-imaginaire-underwater-art-exhibition-fondation-carmignac-porquerolles-island

    Fang Block, "Two Sculptures by Jeff Koons Will Lead Christie’s Online Selling Exhibition," Barron's, June 28, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.barrons.com/articles/two-sculptures-by-jeff-koons-will-lead-christies-online-selling-exhibition-0162491255

    Laurence Mouillefarine, "À Porquerolles, la Fondation Carmignac fait de la mer sa thématique estivale," AD Magazine, July 13, 2021 (color ill., Fondation Carmignac installation, Photo by Marc Domage) https://www.admagazine.fr/adactualites/article/porquerolles-fondation-carmignac-mer-imaginaire

    The Imaginary Sea, exh. cat. (Paris: Fondation Carmignac, 2021), p. 38 (color ill. pp. 38-39)

    Caruso St John, Collected Works: Volume 2 2000-2012 (UK: Mack, 2023) (color ill., Newport Street Gallery installation, detail, poster

  • "Jeff Koons’ Philosophy of Perfection," Reflections. NOWNESS, June 16, 2014 

    "Jeff Koons: High art or plain extravagance?" Al Jazeera, August 22, 2015

Caterpillar Chains
2003

polychromed aluminum and coated steel chain 
20 x 43 1/2 x 77 inches, plus chain at variable length
50.8 x 110.5 x 195.6 cm, plus chain at variable length

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003

    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 (edition 1)

    London, Gagosian Gallery, Popeye, June – July 2007 (edition 1)

    Moscow, The Garage, Un Certain Etat du Monde? A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation, March 19 – June 14, 2009 (edition 1)

    Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, ARTIST ROOMS Jeff Koons, March 19 – July 3, 2011 (edition 2)

    Venice, Punta della Dogana, In Praise of Doubt, April 9, 2011 – December 31, 2012 (edition 1)

    Marseille, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Jeff Koons Mucem: Works from the Pinault Collection, May 19 – October 18, 2021 (edition 1)

  • Joe La Placa, "Jeff Koons: The Candyman Can," ArtReview, April 2003 (color ill. p. 47, model at studio) 

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 54, 116, 133, 149 (color ill. p. 116)

    Cheryl Kaplan, "Door to Door: A Visit to Jeff Koons' Studio," db-art.info, June 2005

    Sotheby’s: Contemporary Art Evening Auction, May 14, 2008 (color ill. p. 222-225, lot 67)

    Alastair Sooke, "Jeff Koons Faccia a Faccia con l'incredible hulk dell'arte contemporanea," (Text in Italian) Flash Art International (Milan) 38, no. 240 (October/November 2007) (color ill.)

     John Gray and Caroline Bourgeois, Un Certain Etat du Monde? A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation (Milan: Skira Editore, 2009), p. 145 (color ill. pp. 56-57)

    In Praise of Doubt, exh. cat. (Venice: Palazzo Grassi and Mondadori Electa, 2011) (color ill. p. 247)

     Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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), pp. 68, 77 (color ill. p. 68)

    Phillips: Year in Review 2010 (New York: Phillips de Pury & Company, 2010) (color ill., detail)

    Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasscamp, Babette Babich, and Vinzenz Brinkmann, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, eds. Vinzenz Brinkmann, Matthias Ulrich, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), p. 62

    Dominique Villanueva, "[Expo star] Jeff Koons au Mucem : très pop!" Gomet' (France), May 7, 2021 (color ill.) https://gomet.net/jeff-koons-au-mucem-inattendu-et-tres-pop/

    "Interrogations sur Jeff Koons au Mucem, Œuvres de la Collection Pinault à Marseille," En Revenant de l'Expo! (France), May 10, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.enrevenantdelexpo.com/2021/04/30/jeff-koons-mucem-a-oeuvres-de-la-collection-pinault/

    Donnia Ghezlane-Lala, "L’art kitsch et néo-pop de Jeff Koons est exposé à Marseille," Konbini (France), May 17, 2021 (color ill.) https://arts.konbini.com/artcontemporain/lart-kitsch-et-neo-pop-de-jeff-koons-est-expose-a-marseille

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, May 2021 (color ill. pp. 32-33)

    Olga Bibiloni, "Quand Jeff Koons badine avec le fonds du Mucem," La Provence (France), May 2021 (color ill.)

    Óscar Caballero, "Jeff Koons, el artista más valorado, se divierte con con el arte popular en Marsella," La Vanguardia (Spain), June 17, 2021 (color ill., Photo by Tom Powel)  https://www.lavanguardia.com/magazine/diseno/20210617/7532188/jeff-koons.html

    Ondřej Krynek, "Jeff Koons exhibits his iconic sculptures from the past 35 years in Marseille," DesignMag (Czech Republic), October 2, 2021 (color ill., Mucem installation)  https://www.designmag.cz/udalosti/99351-jeff-koons-vystavuje-v-marseille-sve-ikonicke-sochy-za-poslednich-35-let.html

    Jeff Koons: Muceum. Works from the Pinault Collection (Paris:  Éditions Dilecta, 2021), pp. 74, 81, 150 (color ill. p. 151; color ill. pp. 242-244)

    Fanny Arlandis, "Georgia O’Keeffe, Napoléon, Jeff Koons... Quelles expositions ont le mieux marché en 2021?" Télérama (France), January 6, 2022 https://www.telerama.fr/sortir/georgia-o-keeffe-napoleon-jeff-koons-quelles-expositions-ont-le-mieux-marche-en-2021-7008079.php

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

Caterpillar Ladder
2003

polychromed aluminum, aluminum, and plastic 
84 x 44 x 76 inches 
213.4 x 111.8 x 193 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003

    New York, Lever House Art Collection, Jeff Koons, December 24, 2004 – April 30, 2006

    Kunsthaus Bregenz, Re-Object: Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Merz, February 17 – May 13, 2007 (edition 1)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008 (edition 2)

    London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009 (edition 2)

  • Joe La Placa, "Jeff Koons: The Candyman Can,” ArtReview, April 2003 (color ill. p. 49, model of inflatable at studio)

    Jerry Saltz, “Breathing Lessons,” Artnet Magazine (originally published in the Village Voice), December 16, 2003 (ill.)

    Jonathan Heaf, "Blow Up," POP, no. 8 (Spring/Summer 2004) (color ill. p. 323)

    Natasha Hébret, "Gregor Schneider, Jeff Koons: Divine Banalité," Espace Sculpture Fall 2004 (ill. p. 29)

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: An interview by the Readers of Flash Art", Flash Art (Milan) 38, no. 240 (January/February 2005), p. 89 (color ill. p. 89)

    Cheryl Kaplan, "Door to Door: A Visit to Jeff Koons' Studio," db-art.info, June 2005, online, (ill. work in progress at studio)

    Uta Grosenick, ed., ART NOW Vol 2 (Cologne: Taschen, 2005), p. 239 (color ill. no. 5)

    Raphael Morata, "A New York, Jeff Koons: un Artiste Barock," Point De Vue, August 27-September 2, 2006 (color ill., work in progress at studio)

    Adam Lindemann, Collecting Contemporary (Los Angeles: Taschen, 2006) (color ill. p. 164, Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA installation)

    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. 7, 15, 126, 144 (color ill. p. 6, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation; color ill. pp. 105-107, Kunsthaus Bregenz installation; color ill. p. 126)

    "Jeff Koons: Mickey-l'Ange Contemporain," Paris Match, September 3, 2008 (color ill. p. 81, work in progress)

    Graham Bader, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago," Artforum, September 2008, pp. 450-451 (color ill. p. 450, Chicago, Museum of Contemporar Art installation) (color ill. p. 451)

    Raphael Morata, "A New York, Jeff Koons Un Artiste Barock," (text in French), Point De Vue (France), August 27-September 2, 2008, pp. 60 (color ill., p. 59, work in progress at studio)

    Gerda Baardman, "Studio Jeff Koons, beeldend kunstenaar, New York," Hollands Diep, December 2008/January 2009, (color ill. pp. 110-111, work in progress at studio

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 100, 115 (color ill. p. 100)

    Jeff Koons, Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed.(Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 549, 551 (color ill. installation view)

    Jessica Holland, "Get animated about Koons' work," The London Paper, June 30, 2009 (color ill. online)

    Jonathan Jones, "Not just the king of kitsch," TheGuardian, London, June 30, 2009 (color ill. p. 5)

    "Ladder to success. Koons exhibition opens," The Daily Telegraph, July 1, 2009, cover page, 25 (color ill, Serpentine installation)

    Michael Glover, "King of comic relief," The Independent, London, July 1, 2009 (color ill. p. 14)

    Ben Lewis, "Popeye the Eye-Popper," Evening Standard, London, July 2, 2009 (color ill. p. 34, Serpentine installation)

     Carol Vogel, “Koons and a Sailor Man in London,” The NewYork Times, July 2, 2009 (color ill. online) 

    Richard Dorment, “Jeff Koons: Popeye Series at the Serpentine Gallery, review,” The Daily Telegraph, July 6, 2009 (color ill., online)

    Chris Maume, “Jeff Koons’s Popeye series is fabulously exuberant. Rothko it ain’t,” TheIndependent, July 14, 2009 (color ill. online)

    Paul Levy, “The Bearable Lightness of Being Jeff Koons,” The Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2009 (color ill. online)

    Colm Toibin, "Plastic Fantastic," Esquire, August 2009 (color ill. p. 69)

    Jeff Koons, "Cover design with T, 5x5x5," The New York Times Style Magazine, November 2009, (color ill. cover, detail)

    Chris Garlick, "Jeff Koons," art of England, 2009 (color ill. p. 35)

    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), p. 76 (color ill. p. 28)

    Mikael Zikos, “De A a Z...,” IDEAT Magazine, no. 75 (March-April 2010), (color ill. p. 157)

    Jeff Koons, "Scan to Koonsume," Garage Magazine (London), Fall/Winter 2014 (color ill. p. 94)

    Michael Polsinelli and Sasha Burkhanova, “The Words,” Garage Magazine (London), Fall/Winter 2014, (color ill. p. 94)

    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. 29, 176 (color ill. p. 176, pl. 109)

    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. 30, 184 (color ill. p. 184, pl. 109)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 169, (color ill. p. 171)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London:  Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 170 (color ill. p. 170) 

    The Broad Collection, ed. Joanne Heyler with Ed Schad and Chelsea Beck (Los Angeles: The Broad, Delmonico Books, 2015), p. 86

    Michaël Amy, "A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing," Sculpture 34, no. 2 (March 2015), p. 56

    Iker Seisdedos, "Factoria Koons: En Portada," (Text in Spanish) El País, no. 2017 (May 24, 2015), p. 36

    Iker Seisdedos, "Retrato de Jeff Koons, el artista más cotizado del mundo," (Text in Spanish) El País, May 27, 2015

    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. pp. 188, 303 (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015; color ill. p. 188, pl. 110)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Slovakia: Taschen, 2015), p. 75 (color ill. p. 75)

    Meera Dolasia, "American Artist Jeff Koons' "Rabbit" Sculpture Auctions for a Record 91 Million," Dogo News, May 19, 2019 (color ill.) https://www.dogonews.com/2019/5/19/american-artist-jeff-koons-rabbit-sculpture-auctions-for-a-record-91-dollars-million

    Manon Garrigues, "Jeff Koons: où admirer ses œuvres les plus folles?" Vogue France, January 21, 2020  (color ill. Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA installation) https://www.vogue.fr/culture/article/jeff-koons-oeuvres-art

    Angela Savino, "L’arte nell’esperienza neuroestetica," Artribune (Italy), November 3, 2020, (color ill., Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA installation) https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/2020/11/neuroestetica-percezione/

    Donnia Ghezlane-Lala, "Voici les 5 œuvres d’artistes vivants les plus chères," Konbini (France), March 17, 2021, https://arts.konbini.com/artcontemporain/voici-les-5-oeuvres-dartistes-vivants-les-plus-cheres, (color ill., Photo by Ted Soqui)

    "Las 5 obras de arte más caras del mundo hoy," MDZ Online (Argentina), March 18, 2021, (color ill.) https://www.mdzol.com/dinero/2021/3/18/las-obras-de-arte-mas-caras-del-mundo-hoy-146072.html

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts editions, May 2021, (color ill. p. 48, work in progress) 

    "As 10 esculturas mais valiosas do mundo," Diário do Estado (Brazil), June 1, 2021 (color ill., Christie’s installation) https://diariodoestadogo.com.br/as-10-esculturas-mais-valiosas-do-mundo-105984/

    "World Dog Day: a look from art," Arte por Excelencias (Spain), July 21, 2021, (color ill., Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago installation) https://www.arteporexcelencias.com/es/noticias/dia-mundial-del-perro-una-mirada-desde-el-arte

    Shanti Escalante-de Mattei, "From Warhol to Kim K and Beyond, a New Exhibit Looks at America’s Premier Celebrity Photographer," Artnews, September 8, 2022 https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/david-lachapelle-fotografiska-exhibit-photos-celebrity-1234638580/

Bicycle Rack
2003-2013

polychromed aluminum, galvanized steel, and stainless steel 
94 x 120 x 36 inches 
238.8 x 304.8 x 91.4 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • N/a

  • Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), p. 535 (color ill. p. 535)

Caterpillar Ladder (Wall)
2007-2011

polychromed aluminum and aluminum
93 3/8 x 41 7/16 x 43 15/16 inches
237.2 x 105.3 x 111.6 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • Sao Paulo, Bienal Pavillon, In the Name of the Artists: Contemporary American Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, September 30 – December 4, 2011 (edition 1)

    Porto, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, The Sonnabend Collection: Part II, May 11, 2018 – September 23, 2018 (edition 3)

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, September 28 – November 29, 2018 (edition 1)

  • Joe La Placa, "Jeff Koons: The Candyman Can," ArtReview, April 2003 (color ill. p. 47, model at studio)

    Jeff Koons: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, ed. Gunnar B. Kvaran, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet, 2018), p. 53 (color ill. p. 53)

Dipstick
2003-2009

polychromed aluminum, wrought iron, and stainless steel 
90 x 96 x 22 inches 
228.6 x 243.8 x 55.9 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009 (edition 2)

    Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Jeff Koons: Popeye Sculpture, September 16 – November 20, 2010 (edition 3)

    Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Popular Culture and the City, July 17 – October 5, 2019

  • Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), p. 70 (color ill. p. 70, detail, model at studio)

    Julie L. Belcove, "Koons World," W (November 2006) (color ill. p. 319, work in progress at studio) 

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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), p. 77 (color ill. pp. 56-57)

    Anna Sansom and Lynn Lee, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Mandarin) Modern China Weekly (China), 2010 (ill. p. c109)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), p. 30 (color ill. pp. 16-17)

    "News: Jeff Koons - 'Popeye Sculpture' Solo Exhibition @ Galerie Jerome de Noirmont,” (Text in French) SJ (France) (2010) (color ill., Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation) 

    Sim Eunlog, "Jeff Koons Desire of Love," (Text in Korean) Joong-ang (Korea) August 2011 (color ill., Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation)

    Jan Blanc and Florence Jaillet, Dans l'atelier des artistes: Les coulisses de la creation de Leonard de Vinci a Jeff Koons (Beaux Arts editions, 2011) (color ill. p. 257, work in progress at studio)

    Michael Slenske, "Artworks from the Sonnabend Collection Find a Home in a La Jolla Bungalow," Galerie Magazine, Summer 2018 (color ill. installation view, edition 3)

Dogpool Ladder
2007-2011

polychromed aluminum and aluminum
68 x 59 1/4 x 63 3/4 inches
172.7 x 150.5 x 161.9 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

Chainlink
2003

polychromed aluminum and galvanized steel
104 x 68 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches 
264.2 x 174 x 48.9 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now, June 22 – December 31, 2004 (edition 3)

    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

    New York, Lever House Art Collection, Jeff Koons, December 24, 2004 – April 30, 2006 (edition 2)

    Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Translation - The Dakis Joannou Collection, June 23 – September 18, 2005 (edition 3)

    Vienna, Kunstalle Wien and MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Hoofstallung, in cooperation with the Deste Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Athens, Dream & Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, June 29 – October 4, 2007 (edition 3)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008 (edition 3)

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, Inaugural Installation, 2008 (edition 2)

    Château de Versailles, Jeff Koons Versailles, October 9, 2008 – April 1, 2009 (edition 1)

    Moscow, The Garage, Un Certain Etat du Monde? A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation, March 19 – June 14, 2009 (edition 1)

    London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009 (edition 3)

    Venice, Punta della Dogana, In Praise of Doubt, April 9, 2011 – December 31, 2012 (edition 1)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (edition 3)

    Marseille, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Jeff Koons Mucem: Works from the Pinault Collection, May 19 – October 18, 2021 (edition 1)

  • Scott Turow, "Loyalty," Playboy 51, no. 1 (January 2004) (color ill. p. 103)

    Germano Celant, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Italian) Interni, no. 4 (April 2004) (color ill. p. 92)

    Aaron Hicklin, Matthew Barney and Jeff Koons, "Matthew Barney vs Jeff Koons," Blackbook (October-November 2004) (color ill. p. 87)

    Jessica Kerwin, "The Golden Greek," W, (October 2004) (color ill. p. 375)

    Espace Sculpture (Fall 2004) (color ill. p. 30)

    Valentina Agostinis, "Jeff Koons," Arte (November/ December 2004) (color ill. p. 73)

    Monument to Now, exh. cat. (Athens, Deste, 2004), p. 246 (color ill. p. 246)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 117, 149 (color ill. p. 117)

    Giancarlo Politi, "An Interview by the Readers of Flash Art," Flash Art International (Milan) 38, no. 240 (January-February 2005), p. 88 (color ill.)

    Adam Lindemann, Collecting Contemporary (Los Angeles: Taschen, 2006), p. 164

    Katia Arfara and Nicolas Bourriad, Translation: A Visual Trip, Dakis Joannou Collection, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste, 2006) (color ill.)

    Dream and Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, exh. cat. (Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007) (color ill.)

    Lee Rosenbaum, “L.A. Story with Broad and Piano,” The Wall Street Journal, February 20, 2008, p. D7

    Michael Duncan, “Report from Los Angeles: LACMA Sizes Up,” Art in America, no. 5 (May 2008) (color ill., detail, Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA installation)

    Laurent Le Bon and Emanuelle Lequeux Interviewin "Jeff Koons: Versailles," (French) Beaux Arts éditions, September 2008, p. 38

    Patrick McCaughey, "Taming the Monster," Apollo Magazine, 2008 (ill. p. 30, Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA installation, partial view)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 533, 580 (color ill. installation view)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 100, 115 (color ill. p. 101)

    Mark Rappolt, "Profile: Jeff Koons," ArtReview 34 (September 2009), p. 94

    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. 88, 111, 160, 187 (color ill. p. 89, Chateau de Versailles installation; color ill. p. 90, detail, Chateau de Versailles installation; color ill. p. 91, detail, Chateau de Versailles installation; color ill. p. 160)

    John Gray and Caroline Bourgeois, Un Certain Etat du Monde? A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation (Milan: Skira Editore, 2009 p. 145 \ (color ill. pp. 58-59)

    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), p. 76 (color ill. p. 29)

    Erin McCracken, "Farm was before fame for Koons," York Daily Record, April 11, 2010 (ill. p. 5A, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    The Broad Foundations Entrepreneurship for the Public Good 2009-2010 (Los Angeles: The Broad Art Foundations, 2010), p. 57

    In Praise of Doubt, exh. cat. (Venice: Palazzo Grassi and Mondadori Electa, 2011) (color ill. p. 245)

    Rachel Wolff, "A Modern Man for Ancient Greece," Departures, October 2012 (color ill. p. 93, Newport Street Gallery installation)

    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), pp. 44, 47, 55 (color ill. p. 44, fig. 1)

    Deborah Vankin, "John Waters and Jeff Koons, the new odd couple," Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2014

    Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, "Jeff Koons: une histoire de gout," (Text in French) Les Cahiers du Musee National d'Art Moderne (Paris) 128 (Summer 2014) (ill. p. 46)

    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. 180 (color ill. p. 180, fig. 3, Chateau de Versailles 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. 189, 301 (color ill. p. 189, fig. 7, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. p. 78)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. p. 78)

    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. 192, 300 (color ill. p. 192, fig. 3, Chateau de Versailles 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. 89

    Dakis Joannou, Deste 33 Years: 1983-2015 (Athens: Deste, 2015) (color ill. p. 366; color ill. p. 401)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons (Slovakia: Taschen, 2015) (color ill. p. 75)

    Michelle Young, "9 Places to See the Work of Jeff Koons in NYC, Past and Present," Untapped Cities, May 17, 2017 (color ill., Lever House installation) https://untappedcities.com/2017/05/17/10-places-to-see-the-work-of-jeff-koons-in-nyc-past-and-present/

    An Album: Lietta & Dakis Joannou, Home Installations 1998-2019 (Athens: Deste, 2019), pp. 122, 124, 125, 150-153

    Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words (Athens: Deste, 2019), pp. 24, 106 (color ill. p. 107), 125

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts editions, May 2021 (color ill. p. 51)

    Jeff Koons: Muceum. Works from the Pinault Collection, exh. cat.(Paris:  Éditions Dilecta, 2021), pp. 142, 181 (color ill. p. 143; color ill. p. 240)

Dogpool (Logs)
2003-2008

polychromed aluminum, wood, and coated steel chain 
23 1/2 x 67 1/2 x 59 1/2 inches, plus chain at variable length
59.7 x 171.5 x 151.1 cm, plus chain at variable length

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • Moscow, The Garage, Un Certain Etat du Monde? A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation, March 19 – June 14, 2009 (edition 3)

    London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009 (edition 2)

    Venice, Punta della Dogana, In Praise of Doubt, April 9, 2011 – December 31, 2012 (edition 3)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (edition 3)

    Marseille, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Jeff Koons Mucem: Works from the Pinault Collection, May 19 – October 18, 2021 (edition 3)

  • Joe La Placa, "Jeff Koons: The Candyman Can," ArtReview, no. 54 (April 2003) (color ill. p. 47, model at studio)

    Luther Blissett, "La joissance du retour en enfance," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2008, p. 50 (color ill. p. 51) 

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2008) (color ill. p. 535)

    Michael Glover, "King of comic relief," The Independent (London) (July 1, 2009) (color ill. p. 14)

    Mark Rappolt, "Profile: Jeff Koons," ArtReview, Issue 34 (September 2009), p. 94 (color ill. p. 96)

    Cloe Piccoli, "Jeff Koons," Condé Nast Traveler, 2009 (color ill. p. 103, Serpentine installation)

    John Gray and Caroline Bourgeois, Un Certain Etat du Monde? A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation (Milan: Skira Editore, 2009), p. 145 (color ill. pp. 64-65)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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), p. 77 (color ill. pp. 44-45)

    In Praise of Doubt, exh. cat. (Venice: Palazzo Grassi and Mondadori Electa, 2011) (color ill. p. 246)

    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. 62

    Raphaël Bouvier, Jeff Koons - Der Künstler als Täufer (Germany: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München, 2012), p. 274 (ill. p. 274, pl. 52)

    "Jeff Koons," Pinault Collection, no. 4, April/September 2015 (color ill. p. 40)

    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. 185, 301 (color ill. p. 185, pl. 185)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. p. 242) 

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 243 (color ill. p. 242)

    Jeff Koons: La Retropsective/A Retrospective, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 48 (color ill. p. 48)

    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. 189, 300 (color ill. p. 189, pl. 111)

    “Fürstin Gloria Von Thurn and Tazi,” Salon (Art issue), 2014 (color ill. p. 30, installation)

    House of Thurn und Taxis, ed. Christina Burns (New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., 2015) (color ill., installation)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective La Portfolio De L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of The Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 128 (color ill. pp. 128-129)

    Dominique Villanueva, "[Expo star] Jeff Koons au Mucem : très pop !" Gomet' (France), May 7, 2021 (color ill.) https://gomet.net/jeff-koons-au-mucem-inattendu-et-tres-pop/

    ""Jeff Koons Mucem": Quand le roi du kitsch côtoie les arts populaires de Marseille," RTBF (Belgique), May 11, 2021 (color ill., Mucem installation, Photo by Valérie Vrel) https://www.rtbf.be/culture/arts/detail_jeff-koons-mucem-quand-le-roi-du-kitsch-cotoie-les-arts-populaires-de-marseille?id=10757737

    Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts – Special Edition, May 2021 (color ill. p. 30)

    Jeff Koons: Muceum. Works from the Pinault Collection, exh. cat.(Paris:  Éditions Dilecta, 2021), p. 74, (color ill. p. 155)

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, computer-animated superhero film, June 2, 2023, 140 minutes (color ill., animation)

Dolphin
2002

polychromed aluminum, stainless steel, and coated steel chain
63 x 72 1/2 x 38 inches, plus chain at variable length
160 x 184.2 x 96.5 cm, plus chain at variable length

Edition of 3 plus AP

Dolphin Taz Trashcan
2007-2011

polychromed aluminum, galvanized steel, and coated steel chain
42 x 77 1/4 x 42 inches, plus chain at variable length
106.7 x 196.2 x 106.7 cm, plus chain at variable length

Edition of 3 plus AP

Dogpool (Panties)
2003

polychromed aluminum, acrylic, Cibachrome, and coated steel chain 
23 1/2 x 67 1/2 x 59 1/2 inches, plus chain at variable length
59.7 x 171.5 x 151.1 cm, plus chain at variable length

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003

    New York, Lever House Art Collection, Jeff Koons, December 24, 2004 – April 30, 2006

    London, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye, June 1 – July 27, 2007 (edition 2)

    Kiev, Pinchuk Art Centre, Sexuality and Transcendence, April 24 – September 19, 2010 (edition 1)

    Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jeff Koons: Popeye Sculpture, September 16 – November 20, 2010 (AP)

    Brussels, Almine Rech Gallery, Jeff Koons, October 6 – November 17, 2012 (edition 1)

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

  • Joe La Placa, "Jeff Koons: The Candyman Can," ArtReview, April 2003 (color ill. p. 47, model at studio)

    "Jeff Koons: On Track," Art and Living 7, Summer 2007 (color ill. p. 45) 

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), p. 30 (color ill. pp. 20-21)

    "News: Jeff Koons - 'Popeye Sculpture' Solo Exhibition @ Galerie Jerome de Noirmont,” (Text in French) SJ (France) (2010) (color ill., Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation)

    "Jeff Koons," (Text in Mandarin) Central Plains Journal (China), May 2011 (color ill. p. 11)

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple," (Text in French) 20/27, no. 5 (2011) (color ill. p. 148)

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

    Joachim Pissarro, Jeff Koons: Almine Rech Gallery (Brussels: Almine Rech, 2013), pp. 64, 89 (color ill. p. 65), (color ill. pp. 66-67, Almine Rech installation)

    Karen Garrat, “Jeff Koons: A Hubris Trickster Creating The Visually Grandoise,” Artlyst, July 24, 2014 (color ill.) http://www.artlyst.com/articles/jeff-koons-a-hubris-trickster-creating-the-visuallygrandiose

    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. 181, 289 (color ill. p. 181, fig. 10, private home 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. 189 (color ill. p. 189, fig. 10, private home installation)

    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. 193 (color ill. p. 193, fig. 20, private home installation)

    Michelle Young, "9 Places to See the Work of Jeff Koons In NYC, Past and Present," Untapped Cities, May 17, 2017 (color ill., Lever House installation) https://untappedcities.com/2017/05/17/10-places-to-see-the-work-of-jeff-koons-in-nyc-past-and-present/

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, computer-animated superhero film, June 2, 2023, 140 minutes (color ill., animation)

Lobster
2003

polychromed aluminum, and coated steel chain 
57 7/8 x 37 x 17 1/8 inches, plus chain at variable height
147 x 94 x 43.5 cm, plus chain at variable height

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003

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

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

    London, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye, June 1 – July 27, 2007

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008 (edition 3)

    Chateau de Versailles, Jeff Koons Versailles, October 9, 2008 – April 1, 2009 (edition 2)

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

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

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

    New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Reds, April 27 – June 9, 2018 (AP)

    Mexico City, Museo Jumex, Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, May 19 – September 29, 2019 (AP)

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

  • Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003) (ill. p. 136; ill. p. 140; ill. pp. 144-145, work in progress; ill. p. 146, work in progress)

    Linda Yablonsky, "Jeff Koons," Art + Auction (March 2004), p. 36 (color ill. p. 37)

    Germano Celant, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Italian) Interni, no. 4 (April 2004) (color ill. p. 90)

    Cheryl Kaplan, "Door to Door: A Visit to Jeff Koons' Studio," db-art.info, June 2005, online (ill.)

    Ingrid Abramovitch, "American Scene: this Month on the Design Beat," House & Garden, August 2004 (color ill. p. 59)

    Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M, 2004), pp. 60, 87 (color ill. p. 61, pl. 20; color ill. p. 87, pl. 20)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 54, 84, 114, 133, 148 (color ill. p. 114; ill. p. 150, model)

    Jeff Koons, "Gretchen Mol: Portfolio by Jeff Koons", The New York Times, March 12, 2006 (color ill. p. 59)

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006)

    Laura Lazzaroni, "Jeff Koons", L'Uomo Vogue, no. 381 (May/June 2007) (color ill. pp. 214-215, work in progress in studio, Photo by Sante D’Orazio) 

    Anouchka Roggeman and Karen Wright, “Koons on Koons,” Modern Painters, June 2006, (color ill. pp. 68-69)

    Hur Tae-Woo, “Jeff Koons: An artist who made banality blue chip,” Asiana, May 2007, p. 2

    "Jeff Koons: Popeye & Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis," Art and Living, Summer 2007 (color ill. p. 108)

    Maria Chiara Valacchi, “Jeff Koons,” Muse World Style (Italy) no. 7 (Spring 2007), pp. 40-51 (ill.)

    Philip Utz, "Catching up with Jeff Koons," Numero (Tokyo) no. 6 (September 2007) (color ill. p. 66)

    Stephanie Seymour, "Art Made in Heaven," Whitewall Magazine, Issue 7 (Fall 2007) (color ill. p. 125, model), (color ill. p. 125)

    Josiah McElheny, "Readymade Resistance: On Art and the Forms of Industrial Production," Artforum, October 2007 (color ill. p. 327)

    "Jeff Koons: il fait sa Revolution Pop Chez Louis XIV," Gala (French), May 2008 (color ill. p. 78, rendering, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    “Choc des cultures a Versailles,” Le Figaro, June 19, 2008, pp. 1, 28

    Susan Stramberg, "Jeff Koons Has a Ta-Da Moment in Chicago," NPR, Morning Edition, July 25, 2008 (ill.)

    Vincent Noce, "Coup de Koons a Versailles," Liberation, August 26, 2008 (color ill. p. 28, Versailles installation)

    "King Koons," (Text in French) Elle (France),August 2008 (color ill., rendering, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    Sylvie Gassot, "Jeff Koons: il Fait sa Revolution Pop Chez Louis XIV," Gala, August 2008 (color ill. p. 78, Versailles installation)

    Bernard Genies, "Un artiste revolutionnaire," Challenges no. 134, September 4, 2008, (color ill., rendering, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    "Coups de Koons," (Text in French) Femmes (France),September 2008 (color ill. p. 57, rendering, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    "Jeff Koons a Versailles," (Text in French) Elle (France),September 2008 (color ill., rendering, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    Laurence Dreyfus, "Jeff Koons, Roi Soleil," l'Officiel, September 2008, pp. 109, 175 (color ill. p. 331, Versailles installation; color ill., p. 9., The Brant Foundation, Remembering Henry’s Show, Greenwich; color ill. p. 79, partial view; color ill. inside cover page)

    Michael Houellebecq, "Jeff Koons", Art World 7 (October/November 2008), p. 32 (color ill. p. 33, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    Christopher Mooney, "Jeff Koons: Chateau de Vaersailles," ArtReview 28 (December 2008), p. 131

    Helianthe Bourdeaux-Martin, “Profile – Dominique Levy,” Whitewall, Winter 2008, p. 42 (color ill. p. 42, L&M Arts installation)

    Angela Doland, "Koons zany sculptures on display at Versailles," Associated Press, 2008 (color ill.)

    Francesco Bonami, "Jeff Koons," Panorama First, no. 4 (2008), pp. 112-118

    Gabriela Walde, "Sunnyboy der Amerikanischen Kunst," Berliner Morgenpost, 2008, (color ill. p. III)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 37, 543 (color ill. cover)

    Isabelle de Wavrin, "L'enterprise Jeff Koons," Beaux Arts éditions, 2008, (color ill. p. 114, rendering, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 104, 115 (color ill. p. 16; color ill. p. 104)

    Jeff Koons: Versailles, Beaux Arts éditions, 2008 (color ill. p. 31, rendering, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    Luther Blissett, "Les obsessions majeures de Koons," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2008 (color ill. p. 32)

    Ezra Petronio, "Conversations: Stella McCartney & Jeff Koons," Self Service, no. 30 (Spring/Summer 2009), p. 326

    Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 5, ed. Marybeth Sollins (New York: Abrams Books/Art21, Inc., 2009), p. 94 (color ill. p. 90)

    Eric Troncy, "Koons, Chateau Versailles," Frog (Paris), 2009 (color ill., detail)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), pp. 14, 40 (color ill. p. 41, fig. 42)

    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. 20, 48, 111, 124, 142, 184 (color ill. p. 49, Chateau de Versailles installation; color ill. p. 50, Chateau de Versailles installation; color ill. p. 51, Chateau de Versailles installation, side view; color ill. p. 142)

    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), pp. 35, 69, 72, 76 (color ill. p. 34)

    "Jeff Koons the Top Selling Artist," (Text in Mandarin) Harper’s Bazaar Magazine (China), February 2010 (color ill. p. 158, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    Francis Naumann, Jeff Koons: New Paintings, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (Beverly Hills: Gagosian Gallery, 2010), pp. 4, 5, 21, 22 (color ill. p. 5, fig. 9; color ill. p. 22)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), p. 8 (ill. p. 8)

    Remembering Henry’s Show: Selected Works 1978-2008, exh. cat., (Greenwich: The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2010) (color ill. cover, detail), (color ill. p. 9, detail; color ill. pp. 78-79, Brant Foundation installation, partial view; color ill. p. 108; color ill. p. 175)

    William Jeffett, Dali Doubled: From Surrealism to the Self, A New Critical View of Dali (St. Petersburg, FL: The Salvador Dali Museum, Inc., 2010) (color ill. p. 301)

    Lydia Schmid, "Jeff Koons Er denkt in Gigadimensionen, seine Werke nicht subtil, aber spektakular. Atelierbesuch bei einem der teuersten Kunstler der Welt," (Text in German) Elle (Germany),May 2011 (color ill. p. 140, model)

    Paola Nicolin, "So Different, So Appealing," Kaleidoscope 11, Summer 2011, p. 189

    Jan Blanc and Florence Jaillet, Dans l'atelier des artistes: Les coulisses de la creation de Leonard de Vinci a Jeff Koons (Beaux Arts editions, 2011) (color ill. p. 260)

    "Jeff Koons: Epitome of Desire", Harper’s Bazaar Magazine (China) Art edition, January 2012 (color ill. p. 94, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    Raphaël Bouvier, Jeff Koons - Der Künstler als Täufer (Germany: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München, 2012 (ill. p. 276 pl. 56)

    Carl Swanson, "The Age of Jeff Koons," New York Magazine, May 13, 2013 (color ill. p. 29)

    Jerry Saltz, "Creator and Destroyer of Worlds. Taking in the mad perfectionism of Jeff Koons," New York Magazine, June 30 - July 13, 2013, p. 103

    Neale Whitaker, "Slightly Surreal," Belle (Australia) (November 2013) (color ill. p. 78, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    Joachim Pissarro, Jeff Koons: Almine Rech Gallery (Brussels: Almine Rech, 2013), pp. 73, 81

    Rachel Campbell-Johnston, "Divide and Rule," Text in Korean Harper's Bazaar (Korea) (April 2014) (color ill. p. 87)

    Ariella Budick, "Jeff Koons at the Whitney Museum," Financial Times, July 4, 2014 (color ill.) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/05678cecfde111e3acf800144feab7de.html

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

    Rachel Harrison, "Thanks for the Memories," Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014) (color ill. p. 4, detail; color ill. p. 319, detail)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Cover story: L'art de la Provoc - Jeff Koons" Vanity Fair (France) (October 2014) (color ill. cover)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons, l'art gonflé!" Vanity Fair (France) (October 2014) (color ill., model, Photo by Martin Schoeller)

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012 (October 2014) (color ill. p. 39)

    François Bousquet, “Art Contemporain la Foire au Milliards,” Le Figaro, November 29, 2014, p. 46

    Judicaël Lavrador, “Jeff Koons: génie ou imposteur?” Beaux Arts editions, November 2014, p. 136

    Aurelie Romanacce, "Jeff Koons: Le Roi de Paris," (Text in French) Arts Magazine, no. 93 (December 2014) (color ill.)

    Colin Lemoine, Philippe Piguet, and Fabien Simode, "Masterchefs, ces artistes chefs d’entreprise qui ne mettent pas la main à la pâte," Text in French) L'oeil (Paris) 674 (December 2014) (color ill. pp. 38-39)

    Luther Blissett, “Les obsessions majeures de Koons,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, p. 32

    Myriam Boutoulle, "Jeff Koons, a star in Paris," (Text in French) Connaissance des Arts (December 2014) (color ill. p. 69)

    Sonya Liu, "Art that Goes Pop," (Text in Mandarin) Kempinski (China), Winter 2014 (color ill. p. 28, Schloss Arolsen 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. 173, 289 (color ill. p. 173, pl. 106)

    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. 181, 301 (color ill. p. 181, pl. 106)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. cover, inflatable model)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London:  Flammarion 2014) (color ill. cover, inflatable model)

    Jeff Koons: La Retropsective/A Retrospective, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 47 (color ill. p. 47)

    Jeff Koons pour les enfants (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014) (color ill. p. 13)

    Michaël Amy, "A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing," Sculpture 34, no. 2 (March 2015), p. 56

    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. 185, 300 (color ill. p. 185, pl. 107)

    E.P. Cutler and Julien Tomasello, Art + Fashion: Collaborations and Connections Between Icons (San Francisco, Chronicle Books LLC, 2015) (color ill. p. 113, model)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective La Portfolio De L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of The Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 125 (color ill. p. 125)

    Javier Pes, Jose Da Silva, and Emily Sharpe, "Visitor Figures 2015 - Jeff Koons is the toast of Paris and Bilbao," The Art Newspaper, March 31, 2016 (color ill.) http://theartnewspaper.com/news/jeff-koons-is-the-toast-of-paris-and-bilbao/

    Philipp Hindahl, "Koons wird von Sammler verklagt," Monopol (Germany), April 24, 2018, (color ill., Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao installation) https://www.monopol-magazin.de/koons-wird-von-sammler-verklagt

    Clayton Press, Reds, exh. cat. (East Greenwich: Meridian Printing, 2018) (color ill. pp. 56-57)

    Susan Sollins, “Interview with Jeff Koons and Susan Sollins” in Being an Artist (New York: Art21, 2018) (color ill. p. 148, Chateau de Versailles installation)

    Florence Dartois, "1997, Jeff Koons: "Pour moi, l'art est de l'ordre du rationnel"," Institut National de 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/

    "Le saviez-vous ? La sculpture contemporaine," Connaissance des Arts (France), October 7, 2019 (color ill., Chateau de Versailles installation) https://www.connaissancedesarts.com/art-contemporain/le-saviez-vous%E2%80%89-la-sculpture-contemporaine-11126971/

    Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, exh. cat. (Text in Spanish) (London: Phaidon, 2019), pp. 128, 197, 224, 228 (color ill. p. 229: color ill. p. 253)

    Nicole Esterolle, "Il faut supprimer ce calamiteux ministère de la culture!" May 29, 2020 (color ill., Chateau de Versailles installation)

    Barbara Lane, "Barbara Lane Interiors," Pointed Leaf Press (New York: Pointed Leaf Press, 2020), p. 343

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

    Jeff Koons: Muceum. Works from the Pinault Collection (Paris:  Éditions Dilecta, 2021), pp. 98, 181

    Rachel Kushner, The Hard Crowd (London: Penguin Random House UK, 2021), p. 69

    Natassa Karystinou, "Jeff Koons: crushed air?" Athens Voice (Greece), August 24, 2022 (color ill. by Luis Tejido) https://www.athensvoice.gr/politismos/eikastika/769111/jeff-koons-aeras-kopanistos/

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, computer-animated superhero film, June 2, 2023, 140 minutes (color ill. animated)

    Max Lakin, "When Spider-Man Met Jeff Koons," The New York Times, July 13, 2023, Section C, p. 11  https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/arts/design/spider-man-jeff-koons-art.html

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

Monkeys (Chair)
2003

polychromed aluminum, wood, and straw 
112 x 23 x 29 inches
284.5 x 58.4 x 73.7 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003

    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]

    London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009 (edition 2)

    Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jeff Koons: Popeye Sculpture, September 16 – November 20, 2010 (Edition 2)

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012 (Edition 3)

    Kiev, Ukraine, Pinchuk Art Centre, Forever Now, May 19, 2012 – January 2013 (Edition 1)

  • "Don't Miss...," Time Out New York, no. 427 (December 4-11, 2003) (color ill., p. 66, Sonnabend Gallery installation)

    Valentina Agostinis, "Jeff Koons," Arte (November/ December 2004) (color ill. p. 65, work in progress at studio, partial view)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 115, 149 (color ill. p. 114)

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: An interview by the Readers of Flash Art," Flash Art (Milan) 38 (January/February 2005), p. 85

    Kelly Devine Thomas, "The Selling of Jeff Koons," ARTnews 104, no. 5 (May 2005) (color ill. pp. 114-115, work in progress at studio)

    Luther Blissett, "Les obsessions majeures de Koons," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2008 (color ill. p. 33)

    Mark Rappolt, "Profile: Jeff Koons," ArtReview, Issue 34, September 2009, p. 94

    Children's Book of Art (London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2009) (color ill. p. 130, at studio)

    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, as “Monkey (Chairs)”

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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), pp. 51, 76 (color ill. p. 20)

    Anna Sansom and Lynn Lee, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Mandarin) Modern China Weekly (China), 2010, (ill. p. c109)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), pp. 7, 31 (color ill. 7, work in progress at studio; color ill. p. 25)

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple," (Text in French) 20/27, no. 5 (2011) (color ill. p. 146)

    Sarah Thornton, "Divine Intervention," Artforum, June 22, 2012 (color ill., partial view, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation) https://www.artforum.com/columns/sarah-thornton-on-jeff-koons-at-the-schirn-kunsthalle-and-liebieghaus-200430/

    Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasscamp, Babette Babich, and Vinzenz Brinkmann, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, eds. Vinzenz Brinkmann, Matthias Ulrich, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), pp. 108, 188 (color ill. p. 109)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 78 (color ill. p. 79)

    Michelle Young, "9 Places to See the Work of Jeff Koons In NYC, Past and Present," Untapped Cities, May 17, 2017 (color ill., Lever House installation)

Moustache
2003

polychromed aluminum, wrought iron, and coated steel chain 
36 3/8 x 75 1/2 x 21 inches, plus chain at variable length
92.4 x 191.8 x 53.3 cm, plus chain at variable length

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • 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

    London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009, p. 24, illustrated in color (edition 3)

    Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Jeff Koons: Popeye Sculpture, September 16 – November 20, 2010, pp. 26-27 illustrated in color (edition 3)

    Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Moustache by Jeff Koons, September 25 – May 29, 2011 (AP)

  • Joe La Placa, "Jeff Koons: The Candyman Can," ArtReview, no. 54 (April 2003) (color ill. p. 47, work in progress at studio)

    Germano Celant, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Italian) Interni, no. 4 (April 2004) (color ill. p. 90)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 70, 119, 134, 149 (color ill. p. 70, detail, model at studio; color ill. pp. 118-119)

    Monument to Now, exh. cat. (Athens, Deste, 2004) (color ill. p. 25)

    Art Now Calendar, Taschen, 2008 (color ill.)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2008) (color ill. p. 528-29).

    Jonathan Jones, "Not just the king of kitsch," TheGuardian (London), June 30, 2009, pp. 8-9 (color ill.)

    "Koon's Popeye work goes on show," BBC News, June 30, 2009 (color ill. online)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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), p. 76 (color ill. pp. 24-25)

    Hugo Gasprad, “I Am What I Am,” alt., Winter 2010 (color ill.)

    Anna Sansom and Lynn Lee, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Mandarin) Modern China Weekly (China), 2010 (ill. p. c152)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), p. 31 (color ill. pp. 26-27)

    “Jeff Koons, en plaine form," Le Figaro (France), June 4, 2012 https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2012/06/03/03004-20120603ARTFIG00186-jeff-koons-en-pleine-forme.php

    “History's Best Mustaches - Jeff Koons's Suspended Wrought Iron 'Moustache'," Artinfo, November 27, 2012 (color ill.)

    Holger Liebs, "Mr. Koons?" Monopol: Special Jeff Koons, 2012 (color ill. p. 4, work in progress at studio)

    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. 180 (color ill. p. 180, fig. 2, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont 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. 188 (color ill. p. 188, fig. 2, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation)

    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. 192 (color ill. p. 192, fig. 2, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Slovakia: Taschen, 2015), p. 76 (color ill. p. 76)

Lobster Log
2003-2012

polychromed aluminum, wood, stainless steel, and coated steel chain
42 x 56 13/16 x 42 inches, plus chain at variable length
106.7 x 144.3 x 106.7 cm, plus chain at variable length

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, Seagram Building, Jeff Koons, November 12, 2013 – October 2023

  • Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008) (color ill. p. 4, detail, work in progress)

    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, dated ‘2003-’

    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. 22

Seal Walrus (Chairs)
2003-2009

polychromed aluminum and resin
63 3/4 x 52 x 35 5/8  inches
161.9 x 132.1 x 90.5 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • London, The Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009 (edition 1)

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (edition 1)

    London, Gagosian Gallery, Sprayed, June 11 – August 1, 2015 (edition 2)

    Miami, Florida, Unrealism, December 1 – December 6, 2015 (edition 2)

    London, Newport Street Gallery, Jeff Koons: Now, May 18 – October 16, 2016 (edition 1)

  • Jonathan Heaf, "Blow Up," POP, no. 8 (Spring/Summer 2004), p. 321

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, (Cologne: Taschen, 2008, p. 535 (color ill. p. 535) 

    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), p. 77 (color ill. p. 59)

    Arthur Danto and Dorothea von Hantelmann, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, exh. cat. (London: Serpentine Gallery, 2009), p. 59 (color ill.)

    Alexander Bartl, "Geniale Spatzunder" (text in German) Elle (Berlin), April 2010 (color ill.)

    America: Contemporary Artist Spaces, ed. Maryam Eisler (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2013), p. 583 (color ill. p. 583, work in progress)

    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. 177, 289 (color ill. p. 177, pl. 110)

    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. 185, 301 (color ill. p. 185, pl. 111)

    Iker Seisdedos, "Factoria Koons: En Portada," (Text in Spanish) El País, no. 2017 (May 24, 2015) (color ill. p. 39, work in progress at studio)

    Gagosian Quarterly, September - October 2015, p. 93 (installation view)

    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. 189, 303 (color ill. p. 189, pl. 112)

    Sprayed: Works from 1929 to 2015, exh. cat., text by John Corbett (London: Gagosian, 2015) (color ill. p. 92; color ill. pp. 212-213, installation view; color ill. p. 221)

    Gagosian Quarterly, February-April 2016, (color ill. p. 146).

    Hettie Judah, "Damien Hirst's Jeff Koons Show Reeks of Power Play," Artnet News, May 19, 2016 (color ill., Newport Street Gallery installation) 

    Sarah Kent, "Jeff Koons: Now, Newport Street Gallery," The Arts Desk, May 26, 2016 (color ill., Newport Street Gallery installation)

    Sarah Belmont, "The Best Booths at Paris’s 2021 FIAC Fair, From Ice Sculptures to a Ceramic Bank Vault," Artnews, October 21, 2021 (color ill., FIAC installation, Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano) https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/fiac-2021-best-booths-1234607692/galerie-jocelyn-wolff/

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), pp. 68, 103 (color ill. p. 69; color ill. p. 103)

Sling Hook
2007-2009

polychromed aluminum and coated steel chain
77 1/2 x 37 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches
196.9 x 94.9 x 100 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009 (edition 1)

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012 (edition 2)

    New York, FLAG Art Foundation, Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, January 20 – May 14, 2016 (edition 3)

    London, Newport Street Gallery, Jeff Koons: Now, May 18 - October 16, 2016 (edition 2)

  • Richard Dorment, "Smile! It's Jeff Koons," The Daily Telegraph, July 7, 2009 (color ill.)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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), p. 77 (color ill. p. 61)

    Johanna di Blasi, “Der Pop-Millionär Jeff Koons führt in Frankfurt am Main seine Produkt-Schlager vor,” Maerkische Allgemeine, June 21, 2012

    Charles Darwent, “Jeff Koons: The Painter and the Sculptor, Liebieghaus and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt,” Independent, July 21, 2012

    Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasscamp, Babette Babich, and Vinzenz Brinkmann, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, eds. Vinzenz Brinkmann, Matthias Ulrich, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), pp. 90, 187 (color ill. p. 91)

    Jean-Marie Gallais, "Jeff Koons, The Painter, Jeff Koons, The Sculptor, Frankfurt," Frog, Summer 2013 (color ill. p. 120)

    Sarah Thornton, 33 Artists in 3 Acts (London: Granta, 2014), p. 7

    Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2016 (color ill. p. 123, FLAG Foundation installation)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, with installation images, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), pp. 70, 103 (color ill. p. 71; color ill. pp. 90-91, Newport Street Gallery installation; color ill. p. 103)

Titi Tire
2003-2010

polychromed aluminum, rubber, and coated steel chain 
42 1/16 x 37 7/16 x 25 1/2 inches, plus chain at variable length
106.8 x 95.1 x 64.8 cm, plus chain at variable length

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012 (edition 2)

  • Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Taschen: Cologne 2008), (color ill. p. 512)

    Louisa Buck, "Jeff Koons: Now at Newport Street Gallery preview," The Telegraph (UK), May 13, 2016, online (color ill.) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/12/paris-finally-finds-home-jeff-koons-giantz Verlag, 2012 

    Claudia Schulmerich, “Kitsch as Kitsch can,” (Text in German) Weltexpresso, June 19, 2012 https://weltexpresso.de/index.php/kunst/747-kitsch-as-kitsch-can

    Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasscamp, Babette Babich, and Vinzenz Brinkmann, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, eds. Vinzenz Brinkmann, Matthias Ulrich, Joachim Pissarro, and Max Hollein, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012), pp. 167, 191 (color ill. p. 166)

    Daniel Kunitz, "Frieze London: Beauty, Hold the Flash," Artinfo, October 17, 2013

    Miranda Sawyer, "Frieze Art Fair 2013," The Guardian, October 19, 2013, online

    "Gagosian Gallery Exhibitions," Gagosian, September-October 2014 (color ill. p. 128, Frieze installation)

    Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014) (color ill. p. 115, Libieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation)

Seal Walrus (Trashcans)
2003-2009

polychromed aluminum and galvanized steel
63 5/8 x 45 7/16 x 30 9/16 inches
161.6 x 115.4 x 77.6 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009 (edition 1)

    Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jeff Koons: Popeye Sculpture, September 16 – November 20, 2010 (edition 2)

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

    Málaga, Spain, Museo Picasso Málaga, The Echo of Picasso, October 3, 2023 – March 31, 2024 (edition 1)

  • Luke Crisell, "Inside the Artists Studio," Nylon Guys, Summer 2006, (color ill. p. 114, work in progress at studio) 

    Gerda Baardman, "Studio Jeff Koons, beeldend kunstenaar, New York," Hollands Diep, December 2008/January 2009 (color ill. pp. 110-111, work in progress at studio)

    Jonathan Jones, "Not just the king of kitsch," TheGuardian, London, June 30, 2009 (color ill. p. 9).

    Ben Lewis, "Popeye the Eye-Popper," Evening Standard (London), July 2, 2009 (color ill. p. 34) 

    Jamie Welham, "Playing with Popeye- and his inflatable friends," West End Extra, July 3, 2009 (color ill.)

    Anthony Barzilay Freund, "Made in Chelsea: A Conversation with Jeff Koons," Sotheby's At Auction, November 9-26, 2009 (color ill. p. 9, work in progress)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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), p. 77 (color ill. p. 60, as “Seal Walrus Trashcans”)

    Alexander Bartl, "Geniale Spatzunder," Elle (Germany), April 2010 (color ill. p. 136, installation) 

    Pierre-Evariste Douaire, “Koons Est Gonflle,” Clark Magazine no. 45 (November/December 2010) (color ill.)

    “News: Jeff Koons - 'Popeye Sculpture' Solo Exhibition @ Galerie Jerome de Noirmont,” (Text in French) SJ (France) (2010) (color ill., Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation)

    Amy Shaw, “Jeff Koons: The pain of Inflation” in The Art Newspaper Art Basel Daily Edition, June 16, 2011 (color ill.)

    Sim Eunlog, "Jeff Koons Desire of Love," (Text in Korean), Joong-ang (Korea) August 2011 (color ill., Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation)

    Raphaël Bouvier, Jeff Koons - Der Künstler als Täufer (Germany: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München, 2012) (ill. p. 274 pl. 53)

    Christopher Bagley, "The Mixologist," W (February 28, 2013) (color ill. p. 315, Almine Rech installation)

    Karen Garrat, “Jeff Koons: A Hubris Trickster Creating The Visually Grandoise,” Artlyst, July 24, 2014 http://www.artlyst.com/articles/jeff-koons-a-hubris-trickster-creating-the-visuallygrandiose

    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. 20, 177, 289 (color ill. p. 177, pl. 111)

    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. 25

Wrecking Ball
2003

polychromed aluminum, powder coated carbon steel, and coated steel chain
62 1/2 x 17 x 20 1/2 inches, plus chain at variable length
158.8 x 43.2 x 52.1 cm, plus chain at variable length

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003 

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection, June 22 – December 31, 2004 (edition 1)

    Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Translation - The Dakis Joannou Collection, June 23 – September 18, 2005 (edition 1) 

    Moscow, The Garage, Un Certain Etat du Monde? A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation, March 19 – June 14, 2009 (edition 3)

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Investigations of a Dog: Works from the Face Collections, June 22 – October 30, 2011 (edition 1)

    London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009 (edition 1)

    Venice, Punta della Dogana, In Praise of Doubt, April 9, 2011 – December 31, 2012 (edition 3)

     Marseille, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Jeff Koons Mucem: Works from the Pinault Collection, May 19 – October 18, 2021 (edition 3)

  • Germano Celant, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Italian) Interni, no. 4 (April 2004) (color ill. p. 93)

    Synthesis, (Text in Greek), August 2004 (color ill. p. 47, DESTE installation, partial view)

    "Monument to Now," Guggenheim, Fall 2004 (color ill. p. 22, detail)

    Eleanor Heartney, “Jeff Koons at Sonnabend,” Art in America, 2004

    Monument to Now, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste, 2004), p. 246 (color ill. p. 246)

    Anouchka Roggeman and Karen Wright, “Koons on Koons,” Modern Painters, June 2006 (color ill. pp. 64-65, studio, Photo by Todd Selby)

    Julie L. Belcove, "Koons World," W (November 2006) (color ill. p. 215, detail)

    Katia Arfara and Nicolas Bourriad, Translation: A Visual Trip, Dakis Joannou Collection, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste, 2006) (color ill.)

    Laura Lazzaroni, "Jeff Koons", L'Uomo Vogue, no. 381 (May/June 2007) (color ill. pp. 218-219, work in progress at studio)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2008) (color ill. p. 538, installation; color ill. p. 539)

    Jeffrey Deitch, Fractured Figure, Volume I, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste, 2008) (color ill. p. 18)

    John Gray and Caroline Bourgeois, Un Certain Etat du Monde? A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation (Milan: Skira Editore, 2009), p. 145 (color ill. pp. 60-61)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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. 40)

    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) (color ill. p. 196, The New Museum installation)

    In Praise of Doubt, exh. cat. (Venice: Palazzo Grassi and Mondadori Electa, 2011) (color ill. p. 244)

    Investigations of a Dog: Works from the Face Collections (Athens: DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 2011) (color ill. cover)

    For Your Eyes Only: A Private Collection, from Mannerism to Surrealism, ed. Andreas Beyer, exh. cat. (Hatje Cantz, September 30, 2014) (color ill. front pages, private home installation; color ill. p. 206)

    An Album: Lietta & Dakis Joannou, Home Installations 1998-2019 (Athens: DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 2019), pp. 100, 101 

    Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words (Athens: DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 2019), p. 108 (color ill. p. 109), p. 125

    Camille Buonanno, "Jeff Koons s’invite au Mucem pour une exposition inédite," AD Magazine (France), May 21, 2021 (color ill., Mucem installation, Photo by Laurent Lecat) https://www.admagazine.fr/art/news/diaporama/jeff-koons-mucem-exposition-inedite/62439

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, May 2021 (color ill. p. 29)

    Jeff Koons: Muceum. Works from the Pinault Collection (Paris:  Éditions Dilecta, 2021) (color ill. p. 122; color ill. p. 237)

Beach House
2003

oil on canvas
102 x 138 inches
259.1 x 350.5 cm

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003

    London, The Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009

    New York, The Flag Art Foundation, Size Does Matter, February 19 – May 27, 2010

  • Joe La Placa, "Jeff Koons: The Candyman Can," ArtReview, no. 54 (April 2003) (color ill. p. 53, work in progress at studio)

    "Gallery Going,” The New York Sun (December 4, 2003)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), pp. 526, 590 (color ill. pp. 526-527)

    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), pp. 34, 76 (color ill. pp. 26-27) all as "Beachhouse"

    Sarah Douglas, "Living Large," Art and Auction, February 2010, p. 20 (color ill. p. 20)

    Size Does Matter: curated by Shaquille O’Neal, exh. cat. (New York: The FLAG Art Foundation, 2010), pp. 76, 83 (color ill. p. 4; color ill. p. 71; color ill. p. 72)

    Andreas Tölke, "Gleichgewicht der Kräfte," Build, March 2011 (color ill. p. 50)

Elvis
2003

oil on canvas
108 x 93 inches 
274.3 x 236.2 cm

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

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008

    London, The Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009

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

  • "Gallery Going,” The New York Sun (December 4, 2003)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003; ill. p. 148, detail, work in progress; ill. p. 150, detail, work in progress)

    Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M, 2004), pp. 62, 87 (color ill. p. 63, pl. 21; color ill. p. 87, pl. 21)

    Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: An interview by the Readers fo Flash Art", Flash Art (Milan) 38 (January/February 2005), p. 84

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 547 (color ill. p. 547)

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

    "Jeff Koons son pari a Versailles," art actuel (France) 58, September-October 2008, (color ill. p. 73)

    Marie-Pierre Nakamura, "USA: Jeff Koons," art actuel, no. 57 (July/August 2008) (color ill. p. 73)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 8, 102, 115 (color ill. p. 8; color ill. p. 103) 

    Hans Werner Holzworth, ed, 100 Contemporary Artists (Cologne: Taschen, 2009) (color ill. p. 326)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), pp. 34, 36 (color ill. p. 36, fig. 35) 

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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. 41) 

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple," (Text in French) 20/27, no. 5 (2011) (color ill. p. 130)

    Jean-Pierre Frimbois and Marie-Pierre Nakamura, Art Actuel, January/February 2012 

    Naomi Campbell, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Russian) Interview (Russia) (November 2012) (color ill. p. 155)

    Monopol: Special Jeff Koons, 2012, p. 6

    Eileen Kinsella, "Charting Jeff Koons’s Sky-High Market," Artnet, June 17, 2014 http://news.artnet.com/market/charting-jeff-koonss-sky-high-market-39445

    Nate Freeman, "Krowds, Kids and Ring-Kissing at Koons Kocktails," Forbes, June 25, 2014 http://galleristny.com/2014/06/crowds-kids-and-ring-kissing-at-koons-cocktails/

    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. 175, 289 (color ill. p. 175, pl. 108)

    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. 183, 301 (color ill. p. 183, pl. 108)

    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. 187, 303 (color ill. p. 187, pl. 109)

    Rachel Kushner, The Hard Crowd (London: Penguin Random House UK, 2021), p. 69

Backyard
2002

inkjet on canvas
164 x 288 inches 
416.6 x 731.5 cm 

Edition of 1 plus AP 

  • Berlin, Max Hetzler, Backyard, January 17 – February 14, 2004 (edition 1)

    Venice, Punta della Dogana, Francois Pinault Foundation, Mapping the Studio, June 6, 2009 (edition 1)

    Marseille, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Jeff Koons Mucem: Works from the Pinault Collection, May 5 – October 18, 2021 (edition 1)

  • Berlin 1994-2003 (Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler, 2003) (color ill.) 

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 44-45, 578 (color ill.)

    Mapping the Studio: Artists from the Francois Pinault Collection, ed. by Alison Gingeras, exh. cat. (Verona: Monadori Printing, 2009) (color ill. pp. 338-339)

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple," (Text in French) 20/27, no. 5 (2011) (color ill. p. 146)

    Remember Everything – 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, eds. Julie Sylvester and Jean-Marie Gallais, exh. cat. (Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler, 2014), p. 117 (color ill. p. 119, Galerie Max Hetzler installation)

    Maroine Jit, "L’exposition de Jeff Koons au Mucem se tiendra à partir du 5 mai," Made in Marseille (France), March 4, 2021 (color ill.) https://madeinmarseille.net/88705-mucem-jeff-koons-exposition-musee/

    Suzanne Philippe, "Jeff Koons dialogue avec les objets du Mucem," Arts Magazine (France), May 7, 2021 (color ill.)

    "Interrogations sur Jeff Koons au Mucem, Œuvres de la Collection Pinault à Marseille," En Revenant de l'Expo! (France), May 10, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.enrevenantdelexpo.com/2021/04/30/jeff-koons-mucem-a-oeuvres-de-la-collection-pinault/

    Alexandre Parodi, "Jeff Koons en 5 œuvres kitsch et provocatrices," Numéro (France), May 24, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.numero.com/fr/art/jeff-koons-mucem-collection-pinault#slide14127

    Astrapellou Marilena, "Jeff Koons in Marseille," Tovima (Greece), July 27, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.tovima.gr/2021/07/27/vimagazino/jeff-koons-sti-massalia/

    Jeff Koons: Muceum. Works from the Pinault Collection (Paris:  Éditions Dilecta, 2021) (color ill. pp. 148-149)

Hook
2003

oil on canvas
102 x 138 inches
259.1 x 350.5 cm 

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003

    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

    London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009

    São Paulo, Biennale Pavilion, In the Name of the Artists: American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, September 30 – December 4, 2011

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, September 28 – November 29, 2018

  • Linda Yablonsky, “In the Studio: Jeff Koons,” Art+Auction, March 2004, p. 38

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), p. 122, 123, 145, 149 (color ill. p. 122, detail; color ill. p. 123; color ill. p. 145, detail)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), pp. 530-531 (color ill. pp. 530-531)

    Michael Glover, "King of Comic Relief," The Independent, London July 1, 2009 (color ill. pp. 14-15)

    Rachel Campbell-Johnson, "How Do You Like Your Lobster?" The London Times, July 1, 2009 (color ill. pp. 14-15)

    Ben Lewis, "Popeye the Eye-Popper," Evening Standard, London, July 2, 2009 (color ill. p. 35)

    Naomi West, ed., "Bazaar Talking Points: The Summer Hotlist," Harper's Bazaar, July 2009 (UK edition) (color ill. p. 56)

    Martin Coome, "On the Surface," The Big Issue-London, July 13, 2009 (color ill.) 

    Mark Rappolt, "Profile: Jeff Koons," ArtReview, Issue 34 (September 2009), pp. 94, 97 (color ill. p. 97)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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. pp. 18-19), p. 76

     Jeff Koons: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, ed. Gunnar B. Kvaran, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet, 2018), pp. 8, 16, 47 (color ill. p. 47)

Moustache Lobsters
2003

oil on canvas
102 x 138 inches
259.1 x 350.5 cm

  • London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009

    Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Jeff Koons the Painter, June 20 – September 23, 2012

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

  • Germano Celant, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Italian) Interni, no. 4 (April 2004) (color ill. p. 91)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), p. 538 (color ill. p. 538 installation view; color ill. pp. 544-545)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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. pp. 38-39

    "Jeff Koons," ed. Alison McDonald, Gagosian Quarterly (September-October 2012), (color ill. pp. 106-107, Schirn Kunsthalle installation)

    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), pp. 150, 184 (color ill. pp. 148-149)

    Eileen Kinsella, "Charting Jeff Koons’s Sky-High Market," Artnet, June 17, 2014 http://news.artnet.com/market/charting-jeff-koonss-sky-high-market-39445

    Brian Boucher, "'I Believe in Not Making Judgment': The Jeff Koons Interview," Art in America, June 25, 2014 https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/interviews/i-believe-in-not-making-judgments-the-jeff-koons-interview-56406

    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. 174, 289 (color ill. p. 174, pl. 107)

    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. 188, 301 (color ill. p. 188, fig. 3)

    House of Thurn und Taxis, ed. by Christina Burns (New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., 2015) (color ill. p. 212)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), pp. 76, 78 (color ill. p. 78)

Olive Oyl
2003

oil on canvas
108 x 84 inches 
274.3 x 213.4 cm

  • Athens, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection, June 22 – December 31, 2004

    London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons, July 2 – September 13, 2009

    Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Jeff Koons the Painter, June 20 – September 23, 2012

    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

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

  • Scott Rothkopf, “Screen Test: Jeff Koons’s Olive Oyl,” Artforum 43, no. 2 (October 2004) (color ill. p. 169; color ill. pp. 170-171, studies for work)

    Monument to Now, exh. cat., ed. Jeffrey Deitch (Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 2004), p. 248

    Richard Lacayo, "How Does'80s Art Look Now?" TIME 165, no. 13 (March 2005) (color ill. p. 60)

    Anouchka Roggeman and Karen Wright, “Koons on Koons,” Modern Painters, June 2006 (color ill. p. 70)

     Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006) 

    Linda Yablonsky, "The Studio System," Art+Auction, (November 2007) (color ill. p. 193, work in progress at studio)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist and Scott Rothkopf, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, eds. Stefan Ratibor and Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009), pp. 28, 29, 34 (color ill. p. 28, fig. 25;  color ill. p. 29, fig. 26-29, details)

    Patrick Javault, "Le Bon Exemple," (Text in French) 20/27, no. 5 (2011) (color ill. p. 144)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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), pp. 34, 72, 77 (color ill. p. 43)

    "Jeff Koons," (Text in Korean) W (Korea) (March 2012) (color ill. p. 298, work in progress at studio)

    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), pp. 20, 24, 26 (color ill. p. 24, fig, 4)

    Eileen Kinsella, "Charting Jeff Koons’s Sky-High Market," Artnet, June 17, 2014 http://news.artnet.com/market/charting-jeff-koonss-sky-high-market-39445

    Violaine Binet, "King Koons," Vogue (Paris), no. 948 (June-July 2014) (color ill. p. 213

    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. 31, 179, 181, 289 (color ill. p. 179, pl. 113; color ill. p. 181, fig. 8, photoshop rendering) 

    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. 187, 189, 301 (color ill. p. 187, pl. 113; color ill. p. 189, fig. 8, photoshop rendering)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 261 (color ill. p. 261)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London:  Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 261 (color ill. p. 261)

    Jeff Koons: La Retropsective/A Retrospective, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 46 (color ill. p. 46) 

    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. 34, 191, 193, 300 (color ill. p. 191, pl. 114; color ill. p. 193, fig. 8, detail, photoshop rendering)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective La Portfolio De L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 126 (color ill. p. 126)

    An Album: Lietta & Dakis Joannou, Home Installations 1998-2019 (Athens: Deste, 2019), pp. 42, 43, 44, 45, 108, 109, 111, 131, 154

    Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words, (Athens: Deste, 2019), pp. 104, 125 (color ill. p. 105)

    Massimiliano Gioni, "The Great Equalizer: Koons on Warhol," Interview, ARTpress, no. 464 (March 2019) (color ill. p. 57)

    Massimiliano Gioni and Laurent Perez, "Le Grand Égalisateur, Koons on Warhol, Jeff Koons," Art Press 464 (France) (March 2019), p. 56 (color ill. p. 57)

    Michela Conoscitore, "Shine di Jeff Koons abbaglia Palazzo Strozzi nel profondo. «Collegare il presente al passato significa continuare a legare le persone alla memoria biologica»," Bon Culture (Italy), October 2, 2021 (color ill., installation view) https://www.bonculture.it/culture/arte/shine-di-jeff-koons-abbaglia-palazzo-strozzi-nel-profondo-collegare-il-presente-al-passato-significa-continuare-a-legare-le-persone-alla-memoria-biologica/

    "“Shine” di Jeff Koons a Palazzo Strozzi," Report Pistoia (Italy), October 3, 2021 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 https://www.wallpaper.com/art/at-home-with-jeff-koons-interview

    Natalia Gierowska, "Jeff Koons. Shine," The Brooklyn Rail, November 2, 2021 (color ill. by Ela Bialkowska) https://brooklynrail.org/2021/11/artseen/Jeff-Koons-Shine

    Lucrezia Caliani, "Jeff Koons a Palazzo Strozzi_ no, non lo potevate fare anche voi," FUL Magazine (Italy), November 13, 2021, (color ill., Palazzo Strozzi installation view by Ela Bialkowska) https://firenzeurbanlifestyle.com/jeff-koons-palazzo-strozzi-no-non-lo-potevate-fare-anche-voi/

    "Jeff Koons: 'Catturare l'arte con i cellulari non è emozione'," Ansa Toscana (Italy), November 25, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.ansa.it/toscana/notizie/2021/11/25/jeff-koons-catturare-larte-con-i-cellulari-non-e-emozione_a6ccc798-f086-4c05-b8d7-f7e7c46c8995.html

    Valentina Roselli, "Gli studenti di Polimoda a tu per tu con Jeff Koons," Il Valore Italiano (Italy), November 26, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.ilvaloreitaliano.it/gli-studenti-di-polimoda-a-tu-per-tu-con-jeff-koons/

    Daniel Cisi, "Shine. Le scintillanti opere di Jeff Koons in mostra a Firenze a Palazzo Strozzi," Glitch Magazine (Italy), November 27, 2021 (color ill., Palazzo Strozzi installation view by Ela Bialkowska) http://www.glitchmagazine.eu/arte/2021/11/27/shine-le-scintillanti-opere-jeff-koons-mostra-firenze-palazzo-strozzi/

    Anna Frattini, "Arte in 20 minuti: Jeff Koons incontra gli studenti del Polimoda di Firenze," Exibart (Italy), November 29, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.exibart.com/formazione/arte-in-20-minuti-jeff-koons-incontra-gli-studenti-del-polimoda-di-firenze/

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), p. 118, (color ill. p. 119, cat. 20)

    GianAngelo Pistoia, "Koons, Donatello e Eliasson in mostra a Palazzo Strozzi," La Voce del Nord Est (Italy), January 6, 2022 (color ill. Palazzo Strozzi installation view) http://www.lavocedelnordest.eu/koons-donatello-e-eliasson-in-mostra-a-palazzo-strozzi/

    "[Anna's Italian Newsletter # 3] 3 selections of Italian exhibitions that are crowded with corona sickness, Koons, Crypto Art, Amazon now," Art Exhibition Japan, January 18, 2022 https://artexhibition.jp/topics/features/20220118-AEJ634575/

Monkeys (Ladder)
2003

oil on canvas
108 x 84 inches 
274.3 x 213.4 cm 

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003

    London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009, pp. 21, 76, illustrated in color

    Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Jeff Koons the Painter, June 20 – September 23, 2012, p. 145, illustrated in color

    Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Jeff Koons: Absolute Value / From the Collection of Marie and Jose Mugrabi, March 10, 2020 – April 3, 2021

    Surfer's Paradise, Australia, HOTA Gallery, Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York, February 18 – June 4, 2023

    London, Skarstedt, Jeff Koons: Paintings 2001-2013, March 1 – May 25, 2024

  • Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), pp. 520 (color ill. p. 520), (color ill. p. 538, installation view)

    Judd Tully, "London Sales Preview," Art + Auction, February 2009, p. 85 (color ill. p. 85)

    Judd Tully, "Silver Linings," Art + Auction, April 2009, p. 69 (color ill. p. 69)

    Waldemar Januszczak, "Toying with us," The Sunday Times, July 5, 2009, p. 12 (color ill. p. 12)

    "Ten shows you do not want to miss" The London Paper, August 11, 2009 (color ill. p. 15, installation)

    Mark Rappolt, "Profile: Jeff Koons," ArtReview, Issue 34, (September 2009), (color ill. p. 97). 

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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. 21), p. 76

    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), pp. 144, 184 (color ill. p. 145)

    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. 180 (color ill. p. 180, fig. 1, Serpentine Gallery 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. 188 (color ill. p. 188, fig. 1, Serpentine Gallery installation) 

    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. 192 (color ill. p. 192, fig. 1, Serpentine Gallery installation)

    Lorenzo Davalos, "Jeff Koons at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art," Complot Magazine, March 7, 2020 (color ill., Tel Aviv Museum of Art installation) http://complotmagazine.com/jeff-koons-en-el-museo-de-arte-de-tel-aviv/

    Jessica Steinberg, "Jeff Koons’s sculptures arrive at Tel Aviv museum, sans artist," The Times Israel (Israel), March 9, 2020 https://www.timesofisrael.com/jeff-koonss-sculptures-arrive-at-tel-aviv-museum-sans-artist/

    Simona Shemer, "Culture and Masks/ Israeli Museums and Galleries Reopen With Fanfare," No Camels (Israel), June 3, 2020 (color ill., Tel Aviv Museum of Art installation) https://nocamels.com/2020/06/israeli-museums-reopen-coronavirus/

    Doron Rabina, Jeff Koons - Absolute Value: From the Collection of Marie and Jose Mugrabi, ed. Einat Adi, exh. cat. (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2020), pp. 34, 38 (color ill. pp. 33-32, Tel Aviv installation; color ill. p. 39; color ill. pp. 43-42, Tel Aviv installation)

    Naama Riba, "Tel Aviv Museum one of world's first to reopen," Haaretz (Israel), June 9, 2020 (color ill., Tel Aviv Museum of Art installation) https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-tel-aviv-museum-is-one-of-the-first-institutions-in-the-world-to-reopen-1.890492

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021) (color ill. p. 178)

    Tracy Cooper-Lavery, Sam Creyton, Bradley Vincent, Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection New York, ed. Meredith McKendry (Queensland Australia, Hota Home of the Arts: 2023) (color ill. p. 52)

Popeye
2003

oil on canvas
108 x 84 inches 
274.3 x 213.4 cm 

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003

    New York, MoMA PS1, Not For Sale, February 11 – April 30, 2007

    London, Gagosian Gallery, Pop Art is:, September 27 – November 10, 2007

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008

    London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009

    Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Jeff Koons the Painter, June 20 – September 23, 2012

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

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

  • "Gallery Going,” The New York Sun (December 4, 2003) (ill.)

    Linda Yablonsky, “In the Studio: Jeff Koons,” Art+Auction, March 2004, p. 41

    Eleanor Heartney, "Jeff Koons at Sonnabend," Art in America (May 2004) (ill. p. 155)

    Valentina Agostinis, "Jeff Koons," Arte (November/ December 2004) (color ill. p. 72)

    Glenn McNatt, "Pop with No Apologies," The Sun, April 9, 2005 (color ill. cover, studio, Photo by Amy Davis; color ill. p. 1D)

    Cheryl Kaplan, "Koons & McCartney," (Text in German) Monopol (Germany), June 2006, (color ill. p. 86, work in progress at studio)

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006) (color ill. pp. 92-93)

    Maria Chiara Valacchi, "Jeff Koons: interview,” Muse World Style (Italy) no. 7 (Spring 2007, pp. 40-51 (ill.)

     "Der Mann Aus Marmor" GQ Germany, September 2007 (color ill. p. 78, partial view)

    Stephanie Seymour, "Art Made in Heaven," Whitewall Magazine 7 (Fall 2007) (color ill. p. 125)

    Tom McDonough, “Education of the Senses: Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s splendid new home for the Boston ICA explores the relationship between culture and sight,” Art in America, March 2007 (color ill. p. 127, Boston ICA Super Vision installation) 

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), pp. 536, 537 (color ill.)

    Pop Art Is...,eds. Mark Francis and Stefan Ratibor, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian, 2007) (color ill.)

    Robin Blake, "After Happiness," The Financial Times (UK & Ireland Edition), July 4, 2009 (color ill.)

    Colm Toibin, "Plastic Fantastic," Esquire, August 2009 (color ill. 69)

    Mark Rappolt, "Profile: Jeff Koons," ArtReview, Issue 34, (September 2009), p. 16, p. 94, (color ill. p. 98), p. 99

    Glenn O’Brien, "Andy Lives," Departures, November/December 2009 (color ill. pp. 172-175)

    "Koons, artist of "Balloon Dog," opens first major US exhibit after 15 years," International Herald Tribune via The Associated Press, May 31, 2008 

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

    Bernard Genies, "Un artiste revolutionnaire," Challenges, no. 134 (September 4, 2008) (color ill., detail)

    Roxana Azimi, "Portrait: Jeff Koons," Le Journal des Arts, no. 286 (September 5, 2008) (color ill. p. 31, detail)

    Armelle Malevoisin, "Top 4 des oeuvres les plus cheres," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2008 (color ill. p. 65)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 4, (color ill. p. 519, detail; color ill. p. 522, installation)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 106, 115 (color ill. p. 106; color ill. p. 107, detail)

    Ben Hoyle, "Art's showman makes a crunch debut with images of Depression," The London Times, May 11, 2009 (color ill. p. 15)

    Craig Raine, "Looney Koons," Evening Standard, June 4, 2009 (color ill. p. 25, detail)

    Tim Teeman, “The Conversation: Jeff Koons,” The London Times, June 13, 2009

    Jessica Holland, "Get animated about Koons' work," The London Paper, June 30, 2009 (color ill.)

    "Koons's Popeye work goes on show," BBCNews, June 30, 2009 (color ill.)

    Claire Sacre, ed. "Elle Preview," Elle, June 2009 (color ill. p. 83)

    "London heats up with six summer shows," Art World, June/July 2009 (color ill. p. 12)

    Sam Philips, "A real-eye popper," The Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, Summer 2009 (color ill. p. 17)

    Liat Clark, "Pop Art Popeye," Matchbox, July 2009 (color ill. p. 56)

    Michael Glover, "King of comic relief," The Independent, July 1, 2009 (color ill. p. 15)

    Ben Lewis, "Popeye the Eye-Popper," Evening Standard, July 2, 2009 (color ill. pp. 34-35)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons: The Conversation Series (Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2009) (ill. p. 89.)

    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), pp. 32, 76 (color ill. cover; color ill. p. 37)

    Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz, "Mister America," (Text in Spanish) Vogue (Espana), (February 2010) (color ill. p. 175, Photo by F. Carrozzini)

    Taschen 30 Anniversary, Taschen, Spring/Summer 2010 

    Marisa Mazria Katz, "Abu Dhabi Art," Whitewall, Spring 2010

    Hugo Gasprad, “I Am What I Am,” alt. (France), no. 31 (Winter 2010) (color ill., partial view, studio)

    A Magazine (France), no. 31 (2010) (color ill., partial view, studio)

    Isabelle de Wavrin, "La Biennale electrise la capitale," (Text in French) Beaux Arts (September 2010) (color ill. cover/table of contents, work in progress at studio)

    Massimo Gaggi, "Jeff Koons: arte ed eros," Corriere Della Sera Style Magazine, 2011, p. 62

    "Jeff Koons," ed. Alison McDonald, Gagosian Quarterly (September-October 2012) (color ill. pp. 108-109, Schirn Kunsthalle installation)

    Naomi Campbell, "Jeff Koons," (Text in German) Interview (Germany) (November 2012) (color ill. cover; color ill. p. 154)

    Texte Zur Kunst: 2012 Die Wertfrage - the Question of Value, December 2012 (color ill. pp. 178-183)

    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. 146 (color ill. p. 147), p. 184

Popeye Train (Crab)
2008

oil on canvas
108 x 84 inches
274.3 x 213.4 cm

  • London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009

    Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Jeff Koons the Painter, June 20 – September 23, 2012

  • Raphael Morata, "A New York, Jeff Koons Un Artiste Barock," Point De Vue, August 27-September 2, 2006 (clor ill., work in progress at studio)

    Judicael Lavrador "Jeff Koons un Baroque en Trompe-leoil," in Qu'est-ce que la Sculpture Ajourd'hui? ed. Caroline Cros (Paris: Beaux Arts/ TTM Editions, October 2008) (color ill. p. 34, work in progress at studio) 

    Ute Thon, "Spieglien, Spieglien an der Wand," Art Kunstmagazin 1 (Germany) (October 2008) (color ill. p. 40) 

    Gerda Baardman, "Studio Jeff Koons, beeldend kunstenaar, New York," Hollands Diep, December 2008/January 2009 (color ill. pp. 108-109, work in progress at studio)

    Adrian Dannatt, "Pop Culture meets art history," The Art Newspaper, July-August 2009, (color ill. p. 32, work in progress at studio)

    "Ten shows you do not want to miss," The London Paper, August 11, 2009 (color ill. p. 15, installation view)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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), p. 77 (color ill. p. 47

    Jan Blanc and Florence Jaillet, Dans l'atelier des artistes: Les coulisses de la creation de Leonard de Vinci a Jeff Koons (Beaux Arts editions, 2011) (color ill. p. 261, work in progress at studio)

     Naomi Campbell, "Jeff Koons," (Text in German) Interview (Germany) (November 2012), (color ill. p. 103)

    "Jeff Koons," ed. Alison McDonald, Gagosian Quarterly (September-October 2012) (color ill. pp. 106-107, Schirn Kunsthalle installation)

    “Koons Summer in Frankfurt – SCHIRN AND LIEBIEGHAUS” Huffington Post, June 20, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/jeff-koons-thepainter_n_1610073.html#slide=1116755

    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), pp. 150, 184 (color ill. p. 151)

    Michael Polsinelli and Sasha Burkhanova, “The Words,” Garage Magazine (London), Fall/Winter 2014 (color ill. p. 86)

    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. 180 (color ill. p. 180, fig. 1, Serpentine Gallery 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. 188 (color ill. p. 188, fig. 1, Serpentine Gallery installation)

    Jeff Koons pour les enfants (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014) (color ill. p. 19)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. pp. 234-235, work in progress in studio) 

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London:  Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. pp. 234-235, work in progress in studio)

     

    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. 192 (color ill. p. 192, fig. 1, Serpentine Gallery installation)

    Karl Cole and Robb Sandagatal, "Looking & Learning: Jeff Koons," School Arts Legacy 116, no. 6 (February 2017), p. 31

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), (color ill. p. 178, Serpentine installation)

Quad Elvis
2008

oil on canvas
102 x 138 inches
259.1 x 350.5 cm

  • Broad Contemporary Art Museum at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Inaugural Installation, February 16 – September 30, 2008

  • Sylvie Gassot, "Jeff Koons: il fait sa Revolution Pop Chez Louis XIV," Gala (French), May 2008, (color ill. pp. 78-79, work in progress at studio, photo Martin Schoeller)

    Lydia Schmid, "Jeff Koons Er denkt in Gigadimensionen, seine Werke nicht subtil, aber spektakular. Atelierbesuch bei einem der teuersten Kunstler der Welt," (Text in German) Elle (Germany), May 2011, (color ill. p. 140, work in progress at studio, photo Martin Schoeller)

    Violaine Binet, "King Koons," Vogue (Paris), no. 948 (June-July 2014) (color ill. p. 213)

    Colin Lemoine, Philippe Piguet, and Fabien Simode, "Masterchefs, ces artistes chefs d’entreprise qui ne mettent pas la main à la pâte," Text in French) L'oeil (Paris) 674 (December 2014) (color ill. pp. 38-39)

    Francesco Bonami, "Il Mondo Secondo Jeff," Panorama (Italy), October 7, 2015 (color ill. p. 118, work in progress at studio, photo Martin Schoeller)

    Manon Garrigues, "Jeff Koons: où admirer ses œuvres les plus folles?" Vogue France, January 21, 2020 (color ill., Broad Museum of Contemporary Art at LACMA installation) https://www.vogue.fr/culture/article/jeff-koons-oeuvres-art

    Donnia Ghezlane-Lala, "Voici les 5 œuvres d’artistes vivants les plus chères," Konbini (France), March 17, 2021 (color ill., Photo by Ted Soqui) https://arts.konbini.com/artcontemporain/voici-les-5-oeuvres-dartistes-vivants-les-plus-cheres

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), p. 184

Popeye Train (Birds)
2009

oil on canvas
108 x 84 inches
274.3 x 213.4 cm

  • London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009

  • "Jeff Koons: il fait sa Revolution Pop Chez Louis XIV," Gala (French), May 2008 (color ill. pp. 78-79)

    "Jeff Koons: Mickey-l'Ange Contemporain," Paris Match, September 3, 2008, p. 77 (color ill. p. 77, work in progress)

    Isabelle de Wavrin "Atelier de Chelsea: La fabrique Jeff Koons" in "Jeff Koons: Versailles," (French) Beaux Arts éditions, September 2008 (color ill. p. 8)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), pp. 28, 92 (color ill. p. 28, work in progress; color ill. p. 92, work in progress)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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), p. 77 (color ill. p. 63)

    Lydia Schmid, "Jeff Koons Er denkt in Gigadimensionen, seine Werke nicht subtil, aber spektakular. Atelierbesuch bei einem der teuersten Kunstler der Welt," (Text in German) Elle (Germany), May 2011 (color ill. p. 140, print of artwork at studio)

    Jan Blanc and Florence Jaillet, Dans l'atelier des artistes: Les coulisses de la creation de Leonard de Vinci a Jeff Koons (Beaux Arts editions, 2011) (color ill. p. 256)

    Jason Edward Kaufman, "King of Kitsch," Black Card Mag, Fall 2013 (color ill. p. 241, work in progress at studio) 

    Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons, l'art gonflé!" Vanity Fair (France), (October 2014) (color ill. p. 141, print of artwork at studio)

    Francesco Bonami, "Il Mondo Secondo Jeff," (Text in Italian), Panorama (Italy), October 7, 2015 (color ill. p. 118, mockup of painting in studio)

    “Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault,” Beaux Arts, Special edition, May 2021 (color ill. p. 47)

Saddle
2003

oil on canvas
102 x 138 inches
259.1 x 350.5 cm 

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003

    London, The Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons, July 2 – September 13, 2009

    Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Jeff Koons the Painter, June 20 – September 23, 2012

  • Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003) (color ill. p. 142, work in progress)

    Germano Celant, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Italian) Interni, no. 4 (April 2004) (color ill. p. 95)

    Jonathan Heaf, "Blow Up," POP, no. 8 (Spring/Summer 2004), p. 322 (color ill. pp. 328-329)

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 200y) (color ill. p. 537, Sonnabend installation; color ill. pp. 537-539)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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), p. 34

    "Pantheon of Pop Icons," Christie's Magazine, Spring 2010 (color ill. p. 23)

    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), pp. 144, 184 (color ill. pp. 142-143)

Triple Elvis
2009

oil on canvas
102 x 138 inches
259.1 x 350.5 cm

  • Greenwich, CT, The Brant Family Foundation, Inaugural Exhibition, April 2009

    Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Jeff Koons: the Painter, June 20 – September 23, 2012

  • Raphael Morata, "A New York, Jeff Koons Un Artiste Barock," Point De Vue, August 27-September 2, 2006 (color ill., work in progress at studio)

    Calvin Tomkins, "The Turnaround Artist," The New Yorker, April 23, 2007, p. 59 (color ill. p. 60)

    Stephanie Seymour, "Art Made in Heaven," Whitewall Magazine, Issue 7 (Fall 2007) (color ill. p. 131, detail, work in progress) 

    Isabelle de Wavrin "Atelier de Chelsea: La fabrique Jeff Koons" in "Jeff Koons: Versailles," (French) Beaux Arts éditions, September 2008 (color ill. p. 12, work in progress)

    Isabelle de Wavrin, "L'enterprise Jeff Koons," Beaux Arts éditions, 2008 (color ill. p. 111, work in progress at studio)

    Laetitia Cenac, "Le Roi Koons a Versailles," Madame Figaro, September 6, 2008 (color ill. p. 138, detail, work in progress) 

    Sylvie Gassot, "Jeff Koons a Versailles: Provocation ou Revolution?" in Paris Capitale, no. 134, September 2008 (color ill. p. 56, work in progress)

    Ute Thon, "Spieglien, Spieglien an der Wand," Art Kunstmagazin 1 (Germany), (October 2008) (color ill. pp. 34-35) 

    Sylvie Gassot, "Jeff Koons: il Fait sa Revolution Pop Chez Louis XIV," Gala, August 2008 (color ill. pp. 78-79, work in progress)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), p. 24 (color ill. p. 25, as ‘2007’)

    Remembering Henry’s Show: Selected Works 1978-2008, exh. cat., (Greenwich: The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2010) (color ill. pp. 78-79, Brant Foundation installation; color ill. pp. 80-81; color ill. p. 175)

    "Jeff Koons," (Text in Korean) W (Korea) (March 2012) (color ill. p. 298, work in progress at studio)

    "Jeff Koons," ed. Alison McDonald, Gagosian Quarterly (September-October 2012) (color ill. pp. 108-109, Schirn Kunsthalle installation)

    Naomi Campbell, "Jeff Koons," (Text in German) Interview (Germany) (November 2012) (color ill. pp. 104-105)

    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), pp. 10, 14, 154, 184 (color ill. pp. 152-153)

    Violaine Binet, "King Koons," Vogue (Paris), no. 948 (June-July 2014) (color ill. p. 212)

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

    Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons, l'art gonflé!" Vanity Fair (France), (October 2014) (color ill., p. 140, detail; color ill. p. 601, work in progress at studio, Photo by Martin Schoeller)

    Christopher Mason, "Bodies of Work," Town & Country, November 2014 (color ill. p. 192)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. pp. 252-253)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London:  Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. pp. 252-253)

    Simon Ekstrom, Humara och Evigheten (Kartonnage: Svenska, 2017) (color ill. p. 101)

    Angela Savino, "L’arte nell’esperienza neuroestetica," Artribune (Italy), November 3, 2020 (color ill., Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA installation) https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/2020/11/neuroestetica-percezione/

    Tatjana Seel, "King of Kitsch," Monsieur, Summer 2022 (color ill. p. 28)

Triple Popeye
2008

oil on canvas
108 x 146 1/8 inches
274.3 x 371.2 cm

  • London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 – March 31, 2022

  • Afrika Akbar, "Koons brings his 'toons to town," The Independent (London) July 1, 2009 (color ill. p. 11, partial view)

    Ossian Ward, "Hello sailor!" Time Out London, July 2, 2009 (color ill. pp. 20-21, partial view)

    Charles Darwent, "Behind the banality, still the big questions" The Independent on Sunday, July 5, 2009, pp. 51, 53

    Philip Hensher, "Jeff's giant lobster is a red herring" The Mail on Sunday, July 19, 2009 (color ill. p. 17, Serpentine Gallery Installation)

    Jonathan Jones, "Opportunist or moral satirist?" The Guardian Weekly, July 31, 2009 (color ill. pp. 34-35)

    “Jeff Koons the Top Selling Living Artist” Harper’s Bazaar Men’s Style(Beijing Edition), February 2010 (color ill. p. 156)

    Valérie Duponchelle, "Jeff Koons, quand l'art fait son show," Le Figaro (France), October 29, 2010 (color ill.)

    Jan Blanc and Florence Jaillet, Dans l'atelier des artistes: Les coulisses de la creation de Leonard de Vinci a Jeff Koons (Beaux Arts editions, 2011) (color ill. p. 261, work in progress at studio)

    Daniel Volzke and Holger Liebs, "Er zelebriert die Perfektion, er stellt das Unberuhrbare dar (He celebrates perfection, he presents the untouchable", Interview, Monopol: Special Jeff Koons. (Berlin: Juno Kunstverlag GmbH, 2012), p. 64

    Judicael Lavrador "Jeff Koons un Baroque en Trompe-leoil," in Qu'est-ce que la Sculpture Ajourd'hui? ed. Caroline Cros (Paris: Beaux Arts/ TTM Editions, October 2008) (color ill. p. 34, work in progress at studio)

    "The 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century," Esquire, October 2008 (color ill. p. 108, work in progress at studio, partial view) 

    Gerda Baardman, "Studio Jeff Koons, beeldend kunstenaar, New York," Hollands Diep, December 2008/January 2009 (color ill. pp. 108-109, work in progress at studio) 

    Guardian, London, June 30, 2009 (color ill. cover, G2 section, detail)

    Metro, London, July 1, 2009 (color ill. p. 7, partial view) 

    Ben Lewis, "Popeye the Eye-Popper," Evening Standard, July 2, 2009 (color ill. p. 34, Serpentine installation)

    Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obtrist (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), p. 77 (color ill. p. 64)

    “Jeff Koons the Top Selling Living Artist,” Harper’s Bazaar Men’s Style (Beijing Edition), February 2010

    Valérie Duponchelle, "Jeff Koons, quand l'art fait son show," Le Figaro (France), October 29, 2010 (color ill.)

    Jan Blanc and Florence Jaillet, Dans l'atelier des artistes: Les coulisses de la creation de Leonard de Vinci a Jeff Koons (Beaux Arts editions, 2011) (color ill. pp. 261, work in progress)

    "No podemos celebrarlas, pero podemos recordarlas... ¡Aquí van 3 de algunas de las fiestas más exclusivas del planeta!," La Razón (Spain), January 20, 2021 (color ill., Serpentine Gallery installation) https://www.larazon.es/lujo/20210120/3lxkfhmrevhx5iqdkvl4m4nzca.html

    Marivie, "Qatar Museums opens Jeff Koons: Lost in America at QM Gallery Al Riwaq as part of #QatarCreates," I Love Qatar (Qatar), November 21, 2021 (color ill., Doha installation) https://www.iloveqatar.net/news/artsCulture/qatar-museums-opens-jeff-koons-lost-in-america-at-qm-gallery-al-riwaq-as-part-of-qatarcreates

    Jeff Koons. Lost in America, exh. cat., ed. Massimiliano Gioni (Milan: Skira, 2021), p. 156 (color ill. pp. 156-157)

Titi
2003

oil on canvas
108 x 84 inches 
274.3 x 213.4 cm

  • New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Popeye, November 8 – December 19, 2003

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Jeff Koons, May 31 – September 21, 2008

    London, Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, July 2 – September 13, 2009

    Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Jeff Koons the Painter, June 20 – September 23, 2012

  • Germano Celant, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Italian) Interni, no. 4 (April 2004) (color ill. p. 92)

    Eleanor Heartney, "Jeff Koons at Sonnabend," Art in America (2004)

    Jeff Koons, "Gretchen Mol: Portfolio by Jeff Koons," The New York Times, March 12, 2006 (color ill. p. 62)

    Julie L. Belcove, "Koons World," W, (November 2006) (color ill. p. 310, work in progress)

    Marie-Pierre Nakamura, "USA: Jeff Koons," art actuel, no. 57 (July/August 2008) (color ill. p. 71)

    "Jeff Koons son pari a Versailles," art actuel (France) 58, September-October 2008 (color ill. p. 71)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2007, pp. 511, 590 (color ill. p. 511) 

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 104, 115 (color ill. p. 105)

    Robin Blake, " After Happiness," Financial Times, July 4, 2009, p. Arts 1

    Mark Rappolt, "Profile: Jeff Koons," ArtReview, Issue 34 (September 2009), p. 94

    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. 23)

    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), pp. 140, 184, 190 (color ill. p. 141; color ill. back cover)

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

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons (Slovakia: Taschen, 2015), p. 76 (color ill. p. 76)

    Jeff Koons: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, ed. Gunnar B. Kvaran, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet, 2018), p. 49 (color ill. p. 49)

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