Popeye

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
78 x 51 3/4 x 28 1/2 inches
198.1 x 131.4 x 72.4 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2009-2011


Popeye

Details

Popeye

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
78 x 51 3/4 x 28 1/2 inches
198.1 x 131.4 x 72.4 cm
© Jeff Koons
Edition of 3 plus AP
2009-2011

Popeye

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
78 x 51 3/4 x 28 1/2 inches
198.1 x 131.4 x 72.4 cm
© Jeff Koons
2009-2011

Popeye

mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating
78 x 51 3/4 x 28 1/2 inches
198.1 x 131.4 x 72.4 cm
© Jeff Koons
2009-2011

EXHIBITED: 

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain [June 9 - September 27, 2015] (Edition 1)

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective. The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France [November 26, 2014 - April 27, 2015] (edition 1)

Jeff Koons: The Sculptor. Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt, Germany [June 20 - September 23, 2012] (Edition AP)

LITERATURE: 

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. 127 (color ill. p. 127), (color ill. pp. 128-129), p. 189

"Jeff Koons's New Sculptures: Sexy Contemporary Antiquities," The Economist (London), July 7-13, 2012, p. 76

"Jeff Koons," ed. Alison McDonald, Gagosian Quarterly (September-October 2012), (color ill. p. 105, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation)

Crispin Sartwell, "I Yam What I Yam," Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2013, online (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation)

Carol Swanson, "The Age of Jeff Koons," New York Magazine, May 13, 2013, p. 29

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. 186 (color ill. p. 186, pl. 112), p. 301.
Sarah Thornton, 33 Artists in 3 Acts (London: Granta, 2014), p. 107

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. 178 (color ill. p. 178, pl. 112), p. 290

Uwe Arnold, The Art of Engineering / The Engineering of Art (Friedrichsdorf: Arnold AG, 2014), (color ill. pp. 118-19, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation), (color ill. p. 124, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation)

"Sotheby's eyeing $25 million for Jeff Koons' 'Popeye'," Examiner, April 14, 2014

Sotheby's: Contemporary Art Evening Auction, May 14, 2014, (color ill. cover), p. 122 (color ill. p. 123, lot 34), (color ill. p. 125), (color ill. p. 126, detail), (color ill. p. 129), (color ill. p. 131), (color ill. p. 133, detail)

"Popeye nets an eyepopping $28 million," The Economic Times, May 21, 2014

Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012, (October 2014), (color ill. p. 81)

Carol Vogel, “A Jeff Koons Sculpture Is Coming to 30 Rock,” The New York Times, May 29, 2014

Eva Karcher and Martin Knobbe, "Knobbe_Jeder intelligente Mensch ist ein Dilettant," (Text in German) Stern 3 (Germany), no. 28 (July 3, 2014), (color ill. p. 7)

Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons is Back!" Vanity Fair (July 2014), p. 89

Erik Maza, "Jeff Koons Anniversary Retrospective Opens at the Whitney," WWD, June 25, 2014, online

Eileen Kinsella, "Charting Jeff Koons’s Sky-High Market," Artnet, June 17, 2014, (color ill.)

Joséphine Bindé, "Jeff Koons trop cher pour les musées français," (text in French) Télérama (France), November 25, 2014

Philippe Dagen, "Dr Jeff et Mr Koons," (text in French) Le Magazine du Monde, no. 166 (November 22, 2014), p. 22 (color ill. p. 22, artwork wrapped during installation at Centre Pompidou), p. 81 (color ill., artwork wrapped during installation at Centre Pompidou)

Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons, l'art gonflé!" Vanity Fair (France), October 2014, p. 136

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. 190 (color ill. p. 190, pl. 113), p. 300

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. 127 (color ill. p. 127)

Francesco Bonami, "Oltre Le Palle C'E Il Bisogno Di Felicita," Vanity Fair, September 30, 2015

Jay Jones, "Check out Vegas' remarkable public art, from 'Popeye' to a winged jackalope," Los Angeles Times, June 20, 2017

Diana Cosmin, "Louis Vuitton colaboreaza cu cel mai bine cotat artist contemporan, Jeff Koons," Fine Society (Romania), April 12, 2017

Brooke Holmes and Karen Marta, Liquid Antiquity, The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2017, (color ill. p. 293)

Mihir Desai, The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, 2017, p. 141

Callum Borchers, "Inside The Encore Resort Casino: $68 Lobster Rolls And Alexa In Every Hotel Room," WBUR, June 21, 2019, online (color ill., Encore Boston Harbor Casino & Resort installation)

"Art in casinos," Noreste (Mexico), March 2, 2020, (color ill., Wynn Casino Las Vegas installation)

Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, May 2021, (color ill. p. 17)