EQUILIBRIUM

Aqualung
1985

bronze
27 x 17 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches 
68.6 x 44.5 x 44.5 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Chicago, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, New Sculpture:  Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, May 7 – June 21, 1986 (edition 1)

    New York, John Weber Gallery, Admired Work, January 9 – February 8, 1986

    London, Saatchi Gallery, NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, 1987 (edition 2)

    Ridgefield, Connecticut, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Post-Abstract Abstraction, May – September 1987

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons, July 1 – August 28, 1988 (edition 1)

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

    New York, James Cohan Gallery, Air, January 10 – February 15, 2003 (edition 3)

    San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993 (edition 1)

    Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea; Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Signs and Wonders, March – June 1995

    Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, June 9 – September 15, 2003 (AP)

    New York, C&M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of Twenty-Five Years, April 7 – June 5, 2004 (edition 1)

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

    Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 'Where are We Going?': Selections from the François Pinault Collection, April 30 – October 1, 2006 (AP)

    Venice, Palazzo Grassi, The François Pinault Collection – A Post-Pop Selection. November 11, 2006 – March 11, 2007 (AP)

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

    New York, Haunch of Venison, Your history is not our history, March 5 – May 1, 2010

    Buckinghamshire, UK. Waddesdon Manner, Christie's Present House of Cards. May 26 – October 28, 2012

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012 (edition 1)

    New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Casting Modernity: Bronze in the XXth Century, April 24 – June 7, 2014

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (edition 3)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (edition 3)

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

    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 (edition 2)

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 – March 31, 2022 (edition 2)

  • Gary Indiana, "Paradigms of Dysfunction," Village Voice, June 11, 1985, (ill. p. 91)

    Kim Levin, "Admired Work," Village Voice, January 1, 1986, p. 66

    Jeffrey Deitch and Matthew Collings, "Mythologies: Art and the Market," Artscribe, no. 57 (April/May 1986) (color ill. p 22, John Weber installation)

    Kim Levin, "His Best Shot," Village Voice, October 14, 1986 (p. 96

    Jeanne Siegel, "Jeff Koons: Unachievable States of Being," Arts Magazine 61, no. 2 (October 1986), p. 68

    Calvin Tomkins, "The Art World: Between Neo- and Post-," The New Yorker (November 24, 1986), p. 110

    Eleanor Heartney, "The Hot New Cool Art: Simulationism," ARTnews 86, no. 1 (January 1987), p. 135

    Dinitia Smith, "Art Fever," New York Magazine 20, no. 16 (April 20, 1987), p. 38

    Vivien Raynor, "Art: In Ridgefield, Conn., A 'Post-Abstract' Show," The New York Times, June 26, 1987, p.C26

    William Zimmer, "'Post-Abstract Abstraction' in Ridgefield," The New York Times, July 5, 1987, p. CN18

    Paul Taylor, "My art belongs to Dada," Time Out London, September 9, 1987 (color ill. p. 36)

    Lynne Cooke, "Object Lesson: Just What Is It About Today's Sculpture...?" Artscribe, no. 65 (September/October 1987), p. 58

    Michelangelo Castrello and Demetrio Paparoni. Tema Celeste, December 1987-February 1988 (color ill. p. 22)

    Dan Cameron, NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, exh. cat. (Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1987) (color ill. p. 130)

    Post-Abstract Abstraction, exh. cat. (Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 1987), (ill. p. 41)

    Georg Herold, Jeff Koons and Isabelle Graw, "Atlantisches Bündnis," Wolkenkratzer (Germany), January 1988 (color ill. p. 159)

    Jerry Saltz, "The Dark Side of the Rabbit: Notes on a Sculpture by Jeff Koons," Arts Magazine 62, no. 6 (February 1988), p. 26

    Corinne Robins, "Goods and Not-So-Goods: 60s/80s Sculpture Parallels," Arts Magazine 62, no. 10 (June 1988), p. 64

    Alan G. Artner, "Market Valued What Jeff Koons' Work Says About the Art World," The Chicago Tribune, July 31, 1988, p. 16

    Peter Carlsen, "Jeff Koons: On the occasion of his first museum retrospective, a look at one of the most captivating artists of the 1980s" Contemporanea International Art Magazine 1, no. 3 (September/October 1988) (color ill. p. 38)

    Laurie Palmer, “Jeff Koons Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,” Artforum 27, no. 2 (October 1988) (ill. p. 153)

    Stephen Luecking, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art," New Art Examiner 16, no. 3 (November 1988), p. 41

    Calvin Tomkins, "Between Neo- and Post-" in Post-to-Neo: The Art World of the 1980s (New York: Holt and Company, 1988), p. 239

    Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, ext. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988), pp. 4, 22, 39 (ill. p. 22, pl. 12)

    Jean-Michel Foray, Jean-Pierre Criqui, L'Objet de l'Exposition, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre National des Arts Plastiques, 1988) (pp. 28; color ill. 29)

    John Caldwell and Michael Newman, Carnegie International - 1988, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel, 1988), p. 90

    Daniel Pinchbeck, “Jeff Koons,” Splash, April 1989, p. 70

    Peter Schjeldahl, "Jeff Koons: Can His Silver Bunny Hold All that Hot Air?" 7 Days, July 12, 1989, (ill. p. 14 in progress)

    Nick Jenkins, "Mr. Koons," Tatler, November 1989, p. 146

    Anne Goldstein and Mary Jane Jacob, A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, exh. cat. (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989), p. 39

    Jean-Chrisophe Ammann, "A Case Study," (text in English) Parkett, no. 19 (1989) (ill. p. 57)

    Andrew Renton, “Super Star,” Blitz Magazine, no. 85 (January 1990) (color ill. pp. 58-59)

    Stuart Morgan, "Something + Nothing," in Lotte or the Transformation of the Object, exh. cat, (Graz: Durch, 1990), pp. 31, 186

    Daniel Pinchbeck, "Kitsch and Tell," Connoisseur 221, no. 958 (November 1991), p. 125

    John R. Lane (foreword), John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau (exhibition history and bibliography), Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), pp. 53, 131 plate 10 (color ill. p. 53, pl. 10)

    Jeff Koons: 30 Postcards (Cologne: Taschen, 1992)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), introduction by Robert Rosenblum, pp. 58, 153 (color ill. p. 59

    Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 1992), pp. 19, 57, 65 (color ill. pp. 66-67)

    Albig Jorg-Uwe, "Jeff Koons, ein Prophet der inneren Leere," Art Das Kunstmagazine 12 (December 1992), p. 54

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p.111 (color ill. p. 33)

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993) (color ill. p. 21)

    Barbaralee Diamonstein, Inside the Art World: Conversations with Barbaralee Diamonstein Artists, Directors, Curators, Collectors, Dealers (New York: Rizzoli, March 5, 1994), p. 130

    Jeffrey Deitch, Everything That's Interesting is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art and Cantz Verlag, 1996)

    David Bowie, "Super-Banalism and the Innocent Salesman," Modern Painters 11, no. 1 (Spring 1998) (color ill. p. 28)

    Robert Rosenblum, On Modern American Art: Selected Essays (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999), pp. 330-31

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

    Roberta Smith, “Review: Jeff Koons – ‘Easyfun’,” The New York Times, December 17, 2000

    Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, no. 487, (March 2001), p. 271 (referred to as Life Vest in text

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003) (color ill. p. 19, International with Monument Gallery installation)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), pp. 16, 40, 141 (color ill. p. 41)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 27, 146 (color ill. p. 27)

    Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M, 2004), p. 64 (color ill. p. 65, pl. 22, p. 80, pl. 22)

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

    Souren Melikian, Art + Auction, July 2006, (color ill. p. 71)

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006) (color ill. pp. 32-33)

    Alison M. Gingeras and Jack Bankowsky, eds, Where are We Going: Selections from the François Pinault Collection, exh. cat (Venice: Palazzo Grassi, 2006), (color ill. p. 243)

    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), pp. 8, 142

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 28 (color ill. p. 28), 167.

    Stephanie Seymour, "Art Made in Heaven," Whitewall 7 (Fall 2007) (color ill. p. 140)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 37, 113 (color ill. p. 12; color ill. p. 36)

    "Jeff Koons son pari a Versailles," Art Actuel (France) 58, September-October 2008 (color ill. p. 70)

    Helianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, "Profile: Dominique Levy," Whitewall 10 (Winter 2008), p. 42 (color ill. p. 42, C&M Arts installation)

    Marie-Pierre Nakamura, "USA: Jeff Koons," Art Actel, no. 57, July/August 2008, (color ill. p. 70)

    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. 72, 73, 77 (color ill. p. 73)

    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. 302)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), (ill. p. 9, Stedelijk Museum installation; color ill, p. 13, International with Monument Gallery installation)

    David Salle, Your History is Not Our History, exh cat. (New York: Haunch of Venison, 2010), (color ill. p. 44, 76)

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), pp. 16-17 (color ill., International With Monument installation; color ill. p. 44)

    Anne-Marie Russell, "The Baron in the Trees," in Salvatore Scarpitta Trajectory (Milan: Silvana Editoriale Spa/Marianne Boesky Gallery, December 2011), p. 77

    Anthony Haden-Guest, "Art or Commerce? Kitschy, Kitschy Koons," Vanity Fair 54, no. 11 (November 2011), p. 257

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz publishers, 2012), pp. 17, 36, 174 (color ill. p. 17, fig. 4)

    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), (color ill. p. 112)

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

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective La Portfolio De L'Exposition (France: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 47

    Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 26, 99, 114 (color ill. p. 26)

    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. 24, 79, 80, 231, 298 (color ill. p. 79, pl. 32; ill. p. 80, fig. 3, Saatchi Gallery installation)

    Luther Blissett, “Sept moments-clefs dans une vie d’artiste,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014 (color ill. p. 8-9, International with Monument installation)

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012, (October 2014) (color ill. p. 52) 

    Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons, l'art gonflé!" Vanity Fair (France), (October 2014), p. 91

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

    Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons is Back!" Vanity Fair (July 2014), p. 91

    Phillip Tinari, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., in association with Gagosian Gallery, 2015), pp. 5, 11

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, Koons, Cologne 2015 (color ill. p. 28)

    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. 21, 75, 76, 233, 298 (color ill. p. 75, pl. 32; ill. p. 76, fig. 3, Saatchi Gallery installation)

    Annette Lin, "Why Jeff Koons is a Natural Successor to Marcel Duchamp," Artsy, May 20, 2019, online (color ill., Jumex installation)

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault special edition, Beaux Arts editions, May 2021 (color ill. p. 15)

Lifeboat
1985

bronze
12 x 80 x 60 inches 
30.5 x 203.2 x 152.4 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Chicago, Feature Gallery, Equilibrium, September 13 – October 12, 1985

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

    San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993

    Ludwigshafenam Rhein, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Zeitsprunge: Kunstlerische Positionen der 80er Jahre, January 17 – February 28, 1993

    Aarhus, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, January 22 – February 28, 1993 (edition 1); Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993 (edition 1); Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, In the Shadow of Storms: Art of the Postwar Era from the MCA Collection, July 2, 1996 – May 25, 1997

    Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Family Values: American Art in the Eighties and Nineties, 1996 – 2005 (edition 1)

    Santa Monica, The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Group Show, December 10, 1997 – July 21, 1999 (edition 3)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Decades in Dialogue: Perspectives on the MCA Collection, February 27 – October 31, 1999 (edition 2)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, March 14, 2000 – November 26, 2000 (edition 2)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Original Language: Highlights from the MCA Collection, March 24 – August 5, 2001 (edition 2)

    Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection, October 7, 2001 – January 6, 2002; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, March 16 – June 3, 2002; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, July 28 – October 20, 2002; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, February 15 – September 7, 2003 (edition 3)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, November 16, 2002 – April 20, 2003 (edition 2)

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 14 – December 22, 2004 (Edition 1); Helsinki, Helsinki City Art Museum, January 28 – April 10, 2005 (edition 1)

    New York, New Museum, East Village USA, December 9, 2004 – March 19, 2005

    New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Hiding in the Light, January 12 – February 25, 2006 (edition 2)

    Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, November 19, 2006 – March 4, 2007

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Upon an Ether Sea: Water and Ship Imagery from the MCA Collection, May 26 – September 9, 2007

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

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (edition 2); Paris, The Centre Pompidou, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (edition 2); Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, June 9 – September 27, 2015

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Surrealism: The Conjured Life, November 21, 2015 – June 5, 2016 (edition 3)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Heaven and Earth: Alexander Calder and Jeff Koons, October 21, 2017 – April 14, 2019 (edition 2)

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 – March 31, 2022 (edition 3)

  • Gary Indiana, "Jeff Koons at International with Monument," Art in America 73, no. 11 (November 1985), p. 16

    Jeanne Siegal, "Jeff Koons: Unachievable States of Being," Arts Magazine 61, no. 2 (October 1986), pp. 68 (ill. p. 69)

    Calvin Tomkins, "The Art World: Between Neo- and Post-" The New Yorker, November 24, 1986, p. 110

    Eleanor Heartney, "The Hot New Cool Art: Simulationism," ARTnews 86, no. 1 (January 1987), p. 135

    Jerry Saltz, Roberta Smith and Peter Halley, Beyond Boundaries: New York’s New Art (New York: HarperCollins, 1987), p. 4 (color ill. p. 4, installation view, International with Monument Gallery, New York, 1985)

    Jerry Saltz, "The Dark Side of the Rabbit: Notes on a Sculpture by Jeff Koons," Arts Magazine 62, no. 6 (February 1988), p. 26

    Corinne Robins, "Goods and Not-So-Goods: 60s/80s Sculpture Parallels," Arts Magazine 62, no. 10 (June 1988), p. 64

    Alan G. Artner, "Market Valued What Jeff Koons' Work Says About the Art World," The Chicago Tribune, July 31, 1988, p. 16

    Stephen Luecking, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art," New Art Examiner 16, no. 3 (November 1988), p. 41

    Calvin Tomkins, "Between Neo- and Post-" in Post-to-Neo: The Art World of the 1980s (New York: Holt an Company, 1988), p. 239

    I. Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988), pp. 4, 20, 39 (ill. pp. 20-21, pl. 13)

    John Caldwell and Michael Newman, Carnegie International - 1988, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel, 1988), p. 90

    Daniel Pinchbeck, “Jeff Koons,” Splash, April 1989, p. 70

    Anne Goldstein and Mary Jane Jacob, A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, exh. cat. (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989), p. 39

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 19-20, 65 (color ill. pp. 57, 65)

    Jeff Koons and Robert Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 154

    John R. Lane, John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau, Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), pp. 63, 131 (color ill. p. 63, pl. 20)

    Jens Erik Sørenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sørenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), pp. 32, 111 (color ill. p. 32)

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), pp. 13, 98 (color ill. p. 13)

    Zeitsprünge, Kunstlerische Positionen der 80er Jahre: Sammlung Rudolf und Ute Scharpff, exh. cat., ed. Richard W. Gassen (Heidelberg: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 1993), pp. 48, 49 (color ill. p. 49)

    Jeff Koons, eds. Jens Erik Sørensoen and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Denmark: Aarhaus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 32 (color ill. p. 32, pl. 17)

    Zoran L. Bozovic, Razgovori O Likovnoj Umetnosti II (Text in Serbian) (Belgrade: CICERO, 1994), p. 62

    Alberto Fiz, "La vita è un paradiso di... Bugie," Class (Italy), February 2, 1994

    Family Values: American Art in the Eighties and Nineties: the Scharpff Collection at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Uwe M. Schneede, exh. cat. (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Cantz Verlag, 1996), pp. 46, 47 (color ill. pp. 46, 47)

    Robert Rosenblum, On Modern American Art: Selected Essays (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999), p. 334

    Stephanie Barron, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001), p. 127 (color ill. p. 127)

    David Rimanelli, "Time Capsules 1980-1985," Artforum 41, no. 7 (March 2003), p. 134

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 35 (color ill. pp. 34-35, International with Monument installation)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), p. 19 (color ill. p. 19, International with Monument Gallery installation)

    Elizabeth Smith, Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2003), pp. 6, 168 (color ill. pp. 6, 168)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 29, 146 (color ill. pp. 28-29)

    Jack Bankowsky, “East Village, USA: New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.” Artforum, April 2005, p. 179 (color ill. p. 179, installation view, New Museum, New York, 1985)

    "Sales Preview," Art+Auction 29, no. 3 (November 2005), p. 212

    Hanne Beate Ueland, "Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank," in Çekim Merkezi / Centre of Gravity, ed. Rosa Martinez, exh. cat. (Istanbul: Istanbul Museum of Art, 2005), p. 178

    Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, exh. cat., ed. Stephanie Barron, Michel Draguet and Sara Cochran (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/LACMA, 2006), p. 220 (color ill. p. 219)

    Canarutto, Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons (Supercontemporanea series) (Milan: Mondadori Printing, 2006), pp. 16, 17, 23, 25, 42, 43, 68, 69, 72, 78, 79, 82, 83 (color ill. pp. 16, 17, 23, 25, 42, 43, 68, 69, 72, 73, 78, 79, 82, 83)

    Daniella Walsh, “Jeff Koons: On Track,” Art & Living, Summer 2007 (issue 7), p. 44 (color ill. p. 44)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 145 (color ill. p. 145)

    Jeffrey Kastner, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art," Artforum, May 2008, p. 168 (color ill. p. 168)

    "The Prodigal Sun Returns," MCA Chicago, Summer 2008, p. 2 (color ill. p. 2)

    Jeff Koons: Celebration, exh. cat. (Berlin: Neue National Galerie, 2008), p. 45 (color ill. p. 45)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 12, 37, 113 (color ill. pp. 12, 37)

    Peter-Klaus Schuster, Rainald Goetz, and Anette Hüsch, Jeff Koons: Celebration, ed. Anette Hüsch, exh. cat. (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008), pp. 45, 107 (color ill. pp. 45, 107)

    Jeff Koons: Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), p. 9 (color ill. p. 9, installation view, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam)

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

    Anne-Marie Russell, "The Baron in the Trees," in Salvatore Scarpitta Trajectory (Milan: Silvana Editoriale Spa/Marianne Boesky Gallery, December 2011), pp. 70-77

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), pp. 5, 43 (color ill. p. 43)

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

    Räphael Bouvier, Jeff Koons - Der Künstler Als Täufer (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2012), p. 248

    Lucy Davies, "Is Jeff Koons Having a laugh?" The Telegraph (UK), June 18, 2013 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/9329136/Is-Jeff-Koonshaving-a-laugh.html

    Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, "Jeff Koons: une histoire de goût", Les Cahiers, January 2014, p. 45 (color ill. p. 45

    If I Live I’ll See You Tuesday, exh. cat. (New York: Christie’s, May 2014), n.p. (color ill. n.p.)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons is Back!" Vanity Fair no. 647 (July 2014), p. 91

    Josiah McElheny, Carol Bove, Rachel Harrison, Margaret Lee, Laura Owens, Cary Arcangel, "Jeff Koons: Artists' Views," Artforum 53, no. 1 (September 2014), p. 316

    Ingrid Sischy, "Jeff Koons, l'art gonflé!" Vanity Fair (France), October 1, 2014, cover, table of contents, p. 140

    Luther Blissett, “Les obsessions majeures de Koons,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, p. 28

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 115 (color ill. p. 115) 

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 114, 115 (color ill. p. 115)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Portfolio of the Exhibition (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 49

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 15 (color ill. p. 15)

    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. 24, 75, 81, 231, 298 (color ill. pp. 75, 81)

    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. 18, 67, 73, 221, 286 (color ill. p. 67, 73)

    Jack Bankowsky, Nicholas Cullinan, Thomas Crow, Michael Fired, Isabelle Graw, Michelle Kuo, Charles Ray, and Scott Rothkopf, Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014), p. 66 (color ill. p. 66)

    Michaël Amy, "A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing," Sculpture 34, no. 2 (March 2015), pp. 56, 59 (color ill. pp. 56, 59)

    Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Slovakia: Taschen, 2015), p. 30 (color ill. p. 30)

    The Broad Collection, ed. Joanne Heyler with Ed Schad and Chelsea Beck (Los Angeles: The Broad, Delmonico Books an imprint of Prestel Publishing, 2015), pp. 21, 24 (color ill. p. 24)

    Phillip Tinari, Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. in association with Gagosian, 2015), p. 5

    Glenn Adamson and Joshua G. Stein, "Imprints: Scale and the Maker's Trace," in Terra Foundation Essays: Scale, exh. cat. (Chicago/Paris: Terra Foundation for American Art, Spring 2017), p. 43

    Gianni Jetzer, Leah Pires, Bob Nickas, Brand New: Art & Commodity in the 1980s, exh. cat. (New York: Rizzoli, 2018), n.p. (color ill. n.p.)

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

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts Éditions, May 2021, p. 15 (color ill. p. 15)

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

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024), pp. 40-41(color ill. pp. 40-41, International with Monument Equilibrium installation)

Basketball
1985

bronze
9 inches diameter 
22.9 cm diameter 

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, From Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Jeff Koons: John Kaldor art projects and collection, December 12, 1995 – March 17, 1996 (AP)

    Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, Journey to now: John Kaldor art projects and collection, April 18 – July 6, 2003 (AP)

    Istanbul, Pera Museum, Collected Visions Modern and Contemporary Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, October 27, 2006 – January 6, 2007 (edition 1)

    London, The Royal Academy, Bronze, September 15 – December 9, 2012

  • Gary Indiana, "Jeff Koons at International with Monument," Art in America 73, no. 11 (November 1985), p. 163

    Michele Cone, "Ready-Mades on the Couch," Artscribe, June/July 1986 (ill. p. 30)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 62, 165 (color ill. p. 62)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 153

    Peter Flessig, "Kitschy, Kitschy Koons," City Limits. London: City Limits Ltd, March 12-19, 1992, p. 1

    Brett Ballard, "Jeff Koons - Made in Heaven," g-spot Vol. 1, no. 2 (Spring Edition, 1992), (color ill. p. 23)

    Photoplay: Works from the Chase Manhattan Collection (New York: The Chase Manhattan Collection, 1993), p. 98 (color ill. p. 99)

    The JPMorgan Chase Art Collection: Art at Work: Forty Years of the JP Morgan Chase Collection, Emily Russell (New York: Meridian Printing, 2000), p. 180 (color ill. p. 181)

    JPMorgan Chase Art Collection - Modern and Contemporary Works: Collected Visions, exh. cat. (Istanbul: Pera Muzesi Yayinlari, 2007), p. 84 (color ill. p. 85)

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

    John Kaldor Family Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, ed. by Wayne Tunnicliffe (Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2011), pp. 194, 206, 338 (color ill. p. 28-29, Kaldor residence installation; color ill, p. 207)

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), p. 6

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

    Eva Karcher, "Sex Lieben," (Text in German) Interview with Jeff Koons and Max Hollein, Vogue (Germany), September 2012, p. 352

    Bronze, exh. cat., ed. David Ekserdijian (Royal Academy of Art, 2012), p. 23 (color ill. p. 249; color ill. p. 279)

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014), p. 69 (color ill. p. 69)

    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. 72 (color ill. p. 72, fig. 2, International with Monument 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. 76 (color ill. p. 76, fig. 2, International with Monument installation)

    The JPMorgan Chase Art Collection Vol. 3: Art at Work (JP Morgan Chase & Co., 2016) (color ill. p. 272; color ill. p. 285)

    Carlos Rolón, Dan Peterson and John Dennis, Common Practice- Basketball & Contemporary Art (Milan, Italy: Skira, 2020) p. 67 (color ill. p. 67)

Snorkel Vest
1985

bronze
21 x 18 x 6 inches 
53.3 x 45.7 x 15.2 cm 

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, International with Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 28, 1992 – January 3, 1993; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22 – February 28, 1993; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993 (edition 1)

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

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

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

    Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, March 3 – May 2, 1999 (edition 1)

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

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

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, A Guest + A Host = A Ghost, May 7 - December, 31, 2009 (AP)

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons: The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012 (edition 1)

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

  • Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Radical Consumption and the New Poverty," New Observations Issue 51 (October 1987), p. 15

    Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective, exh. cat. (Madrid, Spain: Fundación Caja De Pensiones, 1987), p. 68, no. 43

    John Caldwell and Michael Newman, Carnegie International - 1988, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel, 1988), p. 90

    Robert Enright, "The Material Boy and the Femme Fidele," Border Crossings, Winter 1990-1991), p. 38

    Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 1992), pp. 66 and 166, pl. 18 (another example illustrated)

    Jeff Koons, The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 155

    John R. Lane, John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau, Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), pp. 61, 131 (color ill. p. 61, pl. 18)

    "A slow and secret poison corrupted the vitals of the empire," World Tour Magazine 3, no. 2 (July-September 1993)

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

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 111

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

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, 1997), pp. 34, 82 (color ill. p. 35)

    Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 1979-1999, ed. Katerina Gregos. exh. cat. (Athens: DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, 1999)

    Robert Rosenblum, Art at Work: Forty years of the Chase Manhattan Collection (Houston: The Chase Manhattan Corporation, 1999), p. 1

    Monument to Now, exh. cat., ed. Jeffrey Deitch (Athens: DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, 2004), p. 207 (color ill. p. 207, listed as “Vest”)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), pp. 48, 151, 585 (color ill. p. 48, installation view)

    A Guest + A Host = A Ghost, ed. by Massimiliano Gioni, exh. cat. (Athens: DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, 2009) (color ill.)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), pp. 151, 585 (color ill. p. 151)

    "Jeff Koons," Flug-Begleiter, November 2010 (color ill., International with Monument installation)

    Salvatore Scarpitta Trajectory (Milan: Silvana Editoriale Spa/Marianne Boesky Gallery, December 2011), p. 77

    Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasskamp, 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. 98, 187 (color ill. p. 98)

    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. 18, 72 (color ill. p. 72, International with Monument 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. 24, 80 (color ill. p. 80)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 96, 99, 294 (color ill. p. 96)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 96, 99, 294 (color ill. p. 96)

    Eileen Kinsella, "Christie's to Auction Ileana Sonnabend Collection," Artnet News, April 15, 2015, (color ill.)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: Retrospectiva, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, Companhia Empreendimento Sabara, 2015), p. 21

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 28 (color ill. p. 28)

    Henri Neuendorf, "According to Damien Hirst, You Can't Make Art Without Money," Artnet News, May 19, 2016 (color ill.)

    Nicholas Forrest, "The Joy of Jeff Koons at Damien Hirst's London Gallery," Blouin Art Info, May 26, 2016 (color ill. Newport Street Gallery installation)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), pp. 30, 31 (color ill. p. 31; color ill. p. 78; color ill. p. 100)

    An Album: Lietta & Dakis Joannou, Home Installations 1998-2019 (Athens: DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, 2019), p. 17

    Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words (Athens: DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art 2019), pp. 24, 50, 122 (color ill. p. 51)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, exh. cat., eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), p. 20 (listed as Lifevest)

Snorkel (Generic)
1985

bronze
14 1/2 x 5 x 1 1/4 inches 
36.8 x 12.7 x 3.2 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Chicago, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, New Sculpture:  Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, May 07 – June 21, 1986 (edition 1)

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

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

    New York, Almine Rech Gallery, The Echo of Picasso, November 8 – December 16, 2023 (edition 1)

  • Jerry Saltz, "The Dark Side of the Rabbit: Notes on a Sculpture by Jeff Koons," Arts Magazine 62, no. 6 (February 1988), p. 26 (type unspecified)

    Kim Levin, "His Best Shot," Village Voice, October 14, 1986, p. 96

    Calvin Tomkins, "The Art World: Between Neo- and Post," The New Yorker., November 24, 1986, p. 110

    Artner, Alan G. "Market Valued What Jeff Koons' Work Says About the Art World," The Chicago Tribune, July 31, 1988, p. 16

    Jeff Koons, "The Power of Seduction," Art & Design, 1990, p. 51

    Robert Enright, "The Material Boy and the Femme Fidele," Border Crossings, Winter 1990 - 1991, p. 38

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 166

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 154

    John R. Lane (foreword), John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau (exhibition history and bibliography), Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), pp. 55, 131 (color ill. p. 55, pl. 12)

    American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993, eds. Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal (Munich/London/Berlin: Prestel-Verlag, Royal Academy of Arts, ZEITGEIST-Gesellschaft e. V., 1993), p. 457

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 171 (color ill. p. 171)

    Steel Stillman, "The Feature Story," Art in America (December 2010), (color ill. back cover, p. 59, Feature Gallery Chicago installation)

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

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

    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) (color ill. p. 72, fig. 2, International with Monument 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) (color ill. p. 80, fig. 2, International with Monument 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. 76 (color ill. p. 76, fig. 2, International with Monument installation)

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

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024) (color ill. pp. 40-41, International with Monument Equilibrium installation)

Soccerball (Bumblebee)
1985

bronze
7 1/2 inches diameter 
19.1 cm diameter

Edition of 3 plus AP 

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

    Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Hard Targets, January 30 – April 11, 2010 (edition 2)

    Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Soccer: Art and Passion, November 16, 2012 – March 3, 2013

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

  • Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 166

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 155

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koons, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, 1997), pp. 30, 82 (color ill. p. 31)

    80 Artistes: autour de Mondial, (Paris: Galerie Enrico Navarra, 1998) (color ill. p. cover; color ill. pp. 96-97)

    Retorn Al Pais De Les Meravelles, L’ARt Contemporani I La Infancia, exh. cat. (Barcelona: Fundacio "La Caixa", 2001) (color ill. p. 69)

    Hard Targets, exh. cat., (Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, 2010), p. 22 (color ill. p. 22)

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), p. 6

    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. 298 (ed. 3)

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

Snorkel (Shotgun)
1985

bronze
14 1/2 x 5 x 2 1/2 inches 
36.8 x 12.7 x 6.4 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985 (tbc)

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

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27- October 19, 2014 (edition 3)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 - April 27, 2015 (edition 3)

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

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

    Saskatoon, Remai Modern, The Sonnabend Collection, October 5, 2019 - March 22, 2010 (edition 3)

  • Jerry Saltz, "The Dark Side of the Rabbit: Notes on a Sculpture by Jeff Koons," Arts Magazine 62, no. 6 (February 1988), p. 26

    Kim Levin, "His Best Shot," Village Voice, October 14, 1986, p. 96

    Calvin Tomkins, "The Art World: Between Neo- and Post," The New Yorker., November 24, 1986, p. 110

    Artner, Alan G. "Market Valued What Jeff Koons' Work Says About the Art World," The Chicago Tribune, July 31, 1988, p. 16

    Jeff Koons, "The Power of Seduction," Art & Design, 1990, p. 51

    Robert Enright, "The Material Boy and the Femme Fidele," Border Crossings, Winter 1990 - 1991, p. 38

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 166

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 155

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), pp. 39, 98 (color ill. p. 38)

    Jens Erik Sørenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sørenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 111

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 191 (color ill. p. 191)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 191 (color ill. p. 191)

    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) (color ill. p. 72, fig. 2, International with Monument 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. 78, 231, 298 (color ill. p. 78, pl. 31)

    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. 74, 233, 298 (color ill. p. 74, pl. 31)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 27 (color ill. p. 27)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of the Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 48 (color ill. p. 48)

    João Ribas, The Sonnabend Collection: Half a Century of European and American Art. Part II, exh. cat. (Porto: Serralves, 2018), p. 114 (color ill. p. 115)

    The Sonnabend Collection (Saskatoon: Remai Modern: 2019), p. 240 (color ill. p. 140-141)

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024) (color ill. pp. 40-41, International with Monument Equilibrium installation)

Snorkel (Dacor)
1985

bronze
15 1/2 x 5 x 1 1/4 inches 
39.4 x 12.7 x 3.2 cm

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, September 30 – November 29, 1997 (AP)

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012

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

  • Kim Levin, "His Best Shot," Village Voice, October 14, 1986, p. 96

    Calvin Tomkins, "The Art World: Between Neo- and Post-" The New Yorker. New York: Conde Nast, November 24, 1986, p. 110

    Jerry Saltz, "The Dark Side of the Rabbit: Notes on a Sculpture by Jeff Koons," Arts Magazine 62, no. 6 (February 1988), p. 26

    Artner, Alan G. "Market Valued What Jeff Koons' Work Says About the Art World," The Chicago Tribune, July 31, 1988, p. 16

    Anne Goldstein and Mary Jane Jacob, A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, exh. cat. (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989), p. 39

    Jeff Koons, "The Power of Seduction," Art & Design, 1990, p. 51

    Robert Enright, "The Material Boy and the Femme Fidele," Border Crossings, Winter 1990 - 1991, p. 38

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 56, 165 (color ill. p. 56)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 56, 154 (color ill. p. 57)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koons, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, 1997), pp. 32, 82 (color ill. p. 33)

    France Huser, "Jeff Koons: L'Irrévérencieux," (text in French) L'Officiel (Paris), no. 820 (November 1997), p. 155 (color ill. p. 155)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 171 (color ill. p. 171)

    Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasskamp, 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. 168 (color ill. p. 168)

    Marco Enrico Giacometti, “Arriva al Guggenheim di Bilbao la monumentale retrospettiva di Jeff Koons. Tante foto dalla preview della mostra che apre al pubblico questa settimana,” Artribune, June 8, 2015 (color ill. Guggenheim Bilbao installation), pp. 30, 100 (color ill. p. 30; color ill. p. 100)

    Henri Neuendorf, "According to Damien Hirst, You Can't Make Art Without Money," Artnet News, May 19, 2016

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016)

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024) (color ill. pp. 40-41, International with Monument Equilibrium installation)

Soccerball (Molten)
1985

bronze
7 1/2 inches diameter 
19.1 cm diameter

Edition of 3 plus AP

  • N/a

  • Corinne Robins, "Goods and Not-So-Goods: 60s/80s Sculpture Parallels," Arts Magazine 62, no. 10 (June 1988), p. 64

    Angelika Muthesius, ed. Jeff Koons. Cologne, 1992, p. 62 (color ill. p. 62)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 155

    Mortiz Wullen and Bernd Ebert, Der Ball ist rund: Kreis Kugel Kosmos/The Ball is Round: Circle, Sphere, Cosmos (Berlin: Adolf Wurth GmbH & co., Staatliche Museen, 2006), p. 69 (color ill. p. 69)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed. Jeff Koons. Cologne, 2008, p. 160 (color ill. p. 160)

Dr. Dunkenstein
1985

framed Nike poster 
45 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches
115.6 x 80 cm

Edition of 2

  • San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993 (edition 1)

    Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, March 12 – April 18, 1993

    Aarhus, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, March 12 – April 18, 1993

    Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, July 10 – October 3, 1993 (edition 1)

    Bielefeld, Kusthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002, September 22 – November 10, 2002 (edition 1)

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 4 – December 12, 2004

    Helsinki, Helsinki City Art Museum, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, January 28 – April 10, 2005

    Napa, Stonescape, Politics is Personal, July 16, 2011

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

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, La collection Thea Westreich Wagner et Ethan Wagner, June 9, 2016 – February 6, 2017

  • Gary Indiana, "Paradigms of Dysfunction," The Village Voice, June 11, 1985, p. 91 https://books.google.com/books?id=qnp8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

    Norma Lifton, "Jeff Koons," New Art Examiner, December 1985, p. 50

    Fundación Caja de Pensiones Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective (Madrid, Spain: Fundación Caja De Pensiones, 1987), pp. 68, 147 (color ill. p. 68, image 41)

    I. Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, ext. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988), pp. 9, 26, 39 (ill. p. 26, pl. 15)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 19, 63 (color ill. p. 63)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 153

    John R. Lane (foreword), John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau (exhibition history and bibliography), Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), pp. 10, 54, 131 (color ill. p. 54, pl. 11)

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

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 111

    Rainald Goetz, Jeff Koons, Schaupielhaus Programmhefte (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1999) (color ill. p. 36, detail)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), pp. 19, 38, 97 (color ill. p. 39)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 33, 146 (color ill. p. 33)

    Rosa Martinez, Çekim Merkezi / Centre of Gravity, exh. cat. (Istanbul: Istanbul Museum of Art, 2005), p. 178

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006), pp. 36, 37 (color ill. pp. 36)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), p. 151 (color ill. p. 151)

    John Caldwell, This is About Who We Are: The Collected Writings of John Caldwell, ed. by Thea Westreich (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 2008), p. 184

    Ethan Wagner and Suzanne Modica, Politics is Personal: Stonescape Guide to Exhibition 2011 (Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, 2011), pp. 6-7, 24-25, 57

    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. 16

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), pp. 12, 49, 64 (color ill. p. 49)

    Jeff Koons, “The Words,” ed. Michael Polsinelli and Sasha Burkhanova, Garage Magazine (London), Fall/Winter 2014 (color ill. p. 90)

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

    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. 65, 286 (color ill. p. 65, pl. 25)

    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. 73, 298 (color ill. p. 73, pl. 25)

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 12 (color ill. p. 12)

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014) (color ill. p. 68)

    Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, exh. cat., ed. Christine Macel, Elisabeth Sussman, Elisabeth Sherman (New York/Paris: The Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou, Yale University Press, 2015), pp. 44, 288

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 30 (color ill. p. 31)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of the Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 42 (color ill. p. 42)

    Diana Cosmin, "Louis Vuitton colaboreaza cu cel mai bine cotat artist contemporan, Jeff Koons," Fine Society (Romania), April 12, 2017 https://finesociety.ro/jeff-koons-si-louis-vuitton/

    Kurt Brondo, 303 Gallery: 35 Years, exh. cat. (New York: 303inprint, 2019) (color ill. p. 18)

    Peter Nagy, "From Criticism to Complicity," Flash Art (Milan) 53, no. 329 (February-March 2020) (color ill. p. 50)

    Tadashi Kobayashi, "Essay (no. 3) on Kokufu Osamu’s, Engine in the Water," (Text in Japanese) Bulletin of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, no. 14 (March 25, 2020) (ill. p. 24)

The Dynasty on 34th Street
1985

bronze
7 1/2 inches diameter 
19.1 cm diameter

Edition of 3 plus AP 

  • New York, International with Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 28, 1992 – January 3, 1993; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22 – February 28, 1993; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993 (edition 1)

    San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993 (edition 2)

    Athens, Athens School of ­Fine Art, Everything That's Interesting is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, January 20 – April 20, 1996 (edition 1)

    Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, September 30 – November 29, 1997 (edition 2)

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration, December 15, 1999 – May 15, 2000 (edition 1)

    Bielefeld, Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980 - 2002, September 22 – November 10, 2002 (edition 2)

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now, June 22 – December 31, 2004 (edition 1)

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (edition 2)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (edition 2)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (edition 2)

    Mexico City, Museo Jumex, Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, June 15 – September 29, 2019 (edition 2)

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 – March 31, 2022 (edition 2)

  • Gary Indiana, "Paradigms of Dysfunction," The Village Voice, June 11, 1985, p. 91

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 58 (color ill. p. 58)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 153

    John R. Lane (foreword), John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau (exhibition history and bibliography), Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), pp. 10, 56, 131 (color ill. p. 56, pl. 13)

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), pp. 29, 98 (color ill. p. 29)

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993) pp. 28, 111 (color ill. p. 28)

    The Dakis Joannou Collection: Everything That's Interesting Is New, ed. Jeffrey Deitch, exh. cat. (Ostfilden: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art and Cantz Verlag, 1996), pp. 150, 151 (color ill. p. 150)

     Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koons, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 1997), pp. 28, 29, 82 (color ill. p. 29)

    Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 1979-1999, ed. Katerina Gregos. exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation, 1999), pp. 42, 46 (color ill. p. 42)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 35 (color ill. p. 35, International with Monument installation)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), pp. 38, 97 (color ill. p. 3)

    Monument to Now, ed. Jeffrey Deitch, exh. cat. (Athens, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2004), p. 210 (color ill. p. 210)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), p. 148 (color ill. p. 161)

    John Caldwell, This is About Who We Are: The Collected Writings of John Caldwell, ed., Thea Westreich (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 2008), p. 184

    "Jeff Koons," Flug-Begleiter, November 2010 (color ill., International with Monument installation)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010) (color ill. p. 43, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation)

    Bettina Korek, "Go: Sports Art History," Huffington Post, July 12, 2011

    Jordan Schultz, "For the Kids: A Vintage Sports Poster Exhibition," Huffington Post, August 2, 2011

    Sim Eunlog, "Jeff Koons Desire of Love," (Text in Korean) Joong-ang (Korea) August 2011 (color ill. p. 340, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation view)

    "Jeff Koons Desire of Love," Monthly Joong-ang, August 2011, (color ill. p. 340) (Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation 1997)

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), pp. 5, 10, 46 (color ill. p. 46)

    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/

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

    Luther Blissett, "Sept moments-clefs dans une vie d'artiste," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2014 (color ill. pp. 8-9, International with Monument 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. 68, 286 (color ill. p. 68, pl. 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), pp. 76, 298 (color ill. p. 76, pl. 29)

    Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 118 (color ill. p. 118)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 118 (color ill. p. 118)

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion and Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 12 (color ill. p. 12)

    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. 72, 298 (color ill. p. 72, pl. 29)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 46 (color ill. p. 46)

    An Album: Lietta & Dakis Joannou, Home Installations 1998-2019 (Athens: Deste, 2019), p. 17

    Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, exh. cat. (London: Phaidon, 2019) (color ill. p. 53)

    Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words (Athens: Deste, 2019), pp. 48, 121 (color ill. p. 49)

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts Éditions, May 2021 (color ill. p. 15)

    "Amir visits Jeff Koons exhibition," The Peninsula Qatar, November 20, 2021 (color ill. QM Gallery Al Riwaq) https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/20/11/2021/amir-visits-jeff-koons-exhibition

    "HH The Amir visits Jeff Koons exhibition," Diwan (Qatar), November 20, 2021 (color ill. QM Gallery Al Riwaq) https://www.diwan.gov.qa/briefing-room/news/activities-and-occasions/2021/november/20/hh-the-amir-visits-exhibition-of-artist-jeff-koons-at-mia

    Massimiliano Gioni, Il desiderio messo a nudo, Conversazioni con Jeff Koons, (Monza, IT: Johan & Levi editore, 2021) (color ill. p. 56)

    Jeff Koons. Lost in America, ed. Massimiliano Gioni, exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2021), p. 49 (color ill. p. 49)

    Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022 https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/jeff-koons/

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024), pp. 20, 42 (color ill. pp. 40-41, International with Monument Equilibrium installation; color ill. pp. 43)

Board Room
1985

framed Nike poster
31 1/2 x 45 1/2 inches
80 x 115.6 cm

Edition of 2

  • New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

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

    San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – October 3, 1993 (edition 2)

    New York, New Museum, East Village USA, December 9, 2004 – March 19, 2005 (edition 1)

    Istanbul, Pera Museum, Collected Visions: Modern and Contemporary Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, October 27, 2007 – January 6, 2008; Dubai, Emperor's Hall at the Dubai International Financial Centre, March 10 – May 8, 2008 (edition 1)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (edition 1)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (edition 1)

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

    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 (edition 2)

    Copenhagen, Copenhagen Contemporary, Art of Sport, March 25 – October 24, 2021 (edition 2)

  • Gary Indiana, "Jeff Koons at International with Monument," Art in America 73, no. 11 (November 1985), p. 163

    Dan Cameron, "Pretty as a Product," Arts Magazine 60, no. 9 (May 1986) (color ill. p. 23)

    Dan Cameron, "Art and Its Double," Flash Art, May 1987, p. 70

    I. Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988), pp. 9, 25, 39 (ill. p. 25, pl. 14)

    Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 1992) (color ill. p. 60)

    John R. Lane (foreword), John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau (exhibition history and bibliography), Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), pp. 10, p. 62, 131 (color ill. p. 62, pl. 19)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 153

    Photoplay: Works from the Chase Manhattan Collection (New York: The Chase Manhattan Collection, 1993), p. 98 (color ill. p. 99)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2008, p. 158 (color ill. p. 158)

    John Caldwell, This is About Who We Are: The Collected Writings of John Caldwell, ed. by Thea Westreich (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 2008), p. 184

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), pp. 5, 10, 47 (color ill. p. 47)

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

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012 (October 2014) (color ill. p. 52, Equilibrium 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. 64, 286 (color ill. p. 64, pl. 24)

    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. 72, 298 (color ill. p. 72, pl. 4)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 44 (color ill. pp. 44-45)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (China: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 118

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (Hove, England: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 118 

    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)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), pp. 32, 80 (color ill. p. 33; color ill. p. 80)

    Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, exh. cat. (London: Phaidon, 2019), pp. 54, 252 (color ill. p. 54)

    Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022 https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/jeff-koons/

Ice Man
1985

framed Nike poster
45 x 29 1/2 inches
114.3 x 74.9 cm

Edition of 2

  • 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 (edition 2)

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 – March 31, 2022 (edition 2)

  • Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 177 (color ill. p. 117)

Moses
1985

framed Nike poster 
45 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches 
115.6 x 80 cm

Edition of 2

  • Buffalo, Hallways Contemporary Arts Center, Objectivity, December 1 – December 22, 1984

    New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Chicago, Feature Gallery, Equilibrium, September 13 – October 12, 1985

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

    San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993 (edition 1)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, In the Shadow of Storms: Art of the Postwar Era from the MCA Collection, July 2, 1996 – May 25, 1997

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

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (edition 1)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (edition 1)

    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 (edition 1)

  • Gary Indiana, "Paradigms of Dysfunction," The Village Voice, June 11, 1985, p. 91

    Gary Indiana, "Jeff Koons at International with Monument," Art in America 73, no. 11 (November 1985), p. 163

    Norma Lifton, "Jeff Koons," New Art Examiner, December 1985, p. 50

    "Album: Four Artists, Jay Gorney Modern Art, January 4-30," Arts Magazine 60, no. 5 (January 1986) (ill. p. 121, International with Monument installation)

    David Joselit, "Modern Leisure," in Endgame, Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986) (ill. p. 85, International with Monument installation)

    Dan Cameron, "Art and Its Double," Flash Art, May 1987, p. 70

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Radical Consumption and the New Poverty," New Observations Issue 51 (October 1987), p. 9 (ill. p. 9)

    Roberta Smith, "Investigating the Ordinary" and Rituals of Consumption," Art in America, May 1988, p.166 (color ill. p. 166)

    I. Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988), pp. 9, 26, 39 (ill. p. 26, pl. 16)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 56, 165 (color ill. p. 56)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), pp. 56, 154 (color ill. p. 57)Jeff Koons: 30 Postcards (Cologne: Taschen, 1992) (color ill.)

    John R. Lane (foreword), John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau (exhibition history and bibliography), Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), pp. 60, 131 (color ill. p. 60, pl. 17)

    Clay Kallam, "Koons: Madonna of the Art World," Dispatch, January 7, 1993

    Jens Erik Sørenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sørenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), pp. 30, 111 (color ill. p. 30)

    Jeff Koons, eds. Jens Erik Sørensoen and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Denmark: Aarhaus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 30 (color ill. p. 30, pl. 11)

    Thelma Golden, "My Brother," in Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, exh. cat., ed., Elizabeth Alexander and Thelma Golden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), pp. 36, 212 (color ill. p. 66)

    David Rimanelli, "Time Capsules 1980-1985," Artforum, March 2003 (color ill. p. 134, Equilibrium at International with Monument installation)

    Kelly Devine Thomas, "The Selling of Jeff Koons," ARTnews 104, no. 5 (May 2005), p. 116 (color ill. p. 166, 1985 International with Monument installation)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 39, 113 (color ill. p. 38)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 147, illustrated in color

    Marie-Pierre Nakamura, "USA: Jeff Koons," Art Actuel (no. 57), (July/August 2008) (color ill. p. 72)

    Steel Stillman, "The Feature Story," Art in America (December 2010) (color ill. back cover, p. 59, Feature's Chicago installation)

    Ben Carrington, Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora (New York: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010), p. 101 Figure 3.2

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), pp. 5, 48 (color ill. p. 48)

    Räphael Bouvier, Jeff Koons - Der Künstler Als Täufer (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2012), p. 247 (ill. pl. 9)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), p. 18 (color ill. p. 18, fig. 5)

    Jeff Koons, “The Words,” ed. Michael Polsinelli and Sasha Burkhanova, Garage Magazine (London), Fall/Winter 2014, p. 90 (color ill. p. 90)

    Guy Boyer, "Koons Controle les Medias," (Text in French) Connaissance des Arts, (December 2014) (color ill. p. 68)

    Luther Blissett, “Les obsessions majeures de Koons,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014. p. 26

    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. 68, 286 (color ill. p. 68, pl. 28)

    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. 76, 298 (color ill. p. 76, pl. 28)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), pp. 14, 98 (color ill. p. 15)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), pp. 14, 98 (color ill. p. 15)

    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. 72, 298 (color ill. p. 72, pl. 28)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 30 (color ill. p. 31)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 43 (color ill. p. 43)

    Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, exh. cat. (London: Phaidon, 2019) (color ill. p. 52)

    Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022 https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/jeff-koons/

Mychal
1985

framed Nike poster
45 3/4 x 31 inches
116.2 x 78.7 cm

Edition of 2

  • New York, The International Center of Photography; The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, The Indomitable Spirit: Photographers + Friends United Against Aids, 1990 (edition 1)

  • The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 154

    The Indomitable Spirit, exh. cat. (The International Center of Photography Midtown: New York and The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery: Los Angeles, 1990, Photographers + Friends United Against Aids, 1990), pl. 20 (color ill. pl. 20)

Jam Session
1985

framed Nike poster 
31 1/2 x 45 inches 
80 x 114.3 cm

Edition of 2 

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

    Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, September 30 – November 29, 1997 (edition 2)

    Bielefeld, Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980 - 2002, September 22 – November 10, 2002

    New York, Salon 94 Freemans, For The Kids, June 23 – August 8, 2011 (edition 2)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (edition 2)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (edition 2)

  • Norma Lifton, "Jeff Koons," New Art Examiner, December 1985, p. 50

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992. 60, illustrated in color

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 154

    Jens Erik Sørenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sørenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 111

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koons, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, 1997), pp. 24, 82 (color ill. p. 25)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), pp. 40, 96 (color ill. p. 40)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 176

    Bettina Korek, "Go: Sports Art History," Huffington Post, July 12, 2011

    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. 298

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

    Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, exh. cat. (London: Phaidon, 2019) (color ill. p. 55)

    Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022 https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/jeff-koons/

Rising Stars
1985

framed Nike poster
46 x 32 inches
116.8 x 81.3 cm

Edition of 2

  • The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 154

     

Silk
1985

framed Nike poster 
46 x 31 1/2 inches 
116.8 x 80 cm

Edition of 2

  • The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 154

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 147 (color ill. p. 147)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 31

Sir Sid
1985

framed Nike poster 
45 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches
116.2 x 80 cm

Edition of 2 

  • New York, International with Monument Gallery, May 4 – June 2, 1985 (edition 1)

    Chicago, Feature Gallery, Equilibrium, September 13 – October 12, 1985 (edition 1)

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

    Copenhagen Contemporary, Art of Sport, March 25 – October 24, 2021 (edition 1)

  • Norma Lifton, "Jeff Koons," New Art Examiner, December 1985, p. 50

    Jeanne Siegal, "Jeff Koons: Unachievable States of Being," Arts Magazine 61, no. 2 (October 1986), p. 71 (color ill. p. 71)

    James Hall, "Neo-Geo's Bachelor Artists," Art International 9, (Winter 1989), p. 32

    Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 1992, p. 61, illustrated in color

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 154

    Warhol/Koons/Hirst: Cult and Culture. Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection at the Aspen Art Museum, exh. cat., ed. Dean Sobel (Aspen: Aspen Art Museum, 2001), p. 48 (color ill. p. 32/plate 13, illustrated without frame)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), p. 19 (color ill. p. 19, International with Monument Gallery installation)

    Photography Transformed: The Metropolitan Bank & Trust Collection, exh cat. (New York, 2002), p. 19 (ill. p. 19)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), pp. 34-35 (color ill. pp. 34, 35, International with Monument installation)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 177 (color ill. p. 177)

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

    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. 80 International with Monument installation, partial view)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 30 (color ill. p. 31)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), pp. 34, 100 (color ill. p. 34; color ill. p. 100)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021) (color ill. p. 183, Newport Gallery installation)

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024) (color ill. pp. 40-41, International with Monument Equilibrium installation)

Secretary of Defense
1985

framed Nike poster 
45 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches 
115.6 x 80 cm

Edition of 2

  • New York, International with Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Paris, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Jeff Koons, September 30 – November 29, 1997 (edition 2)

    Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980 - 2002, September 22 – November 10, 2002 (edition 2)

    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 2)

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

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 –  March 31, 2022 (edition 1)

  • "Album: Four Artists, Jay Gorney Modern Art, January 4-30," Arts Magazine 60, no. 5 (January 1986), p. 121 (ill. p. 121)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo. "Spiritual America," CEPA Quarterly 1, no. 3, Spring 1986, p. 6

    David Joselit, "Modern Leisure," in Endgame, Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986), p. 85 (ill. p. 85)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Radical consumption and the new poverty," New Observations 51 (October 1987), p. 9

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 19, 59, 61, 165 (color ill. pp. 59, 61)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 154

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koons, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, 1997), pp. 26, 27, 82 (color ill. p. 27)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), pp. 34, 35, (color ill. pp. 34, 35)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), pp. 42, 97, (color ill. p. 42)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 32, 146 (color ill. p. 32)

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

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 2008, p. 180 (color ill. p. 180)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), p. 43 (color ill. p. 43)

    Sim Eunlog, "Jeff Koons Desire of Love," (Text in Korean) Joong-ang (Korea) August 2011, p. 340 (color ill. p. 340)

    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. 80 International with Monument installation, partial view)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016), pp. 35, 80 (color ill. pp. 35, 80)

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts Éditions, May 2021, p. 15 (color ill. p. 15)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), p. 183, (color ill. p. 183)

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024), pp. 40, 41 (color ill. pp. 40-41)

Stormin’ Norman
1985

framed Nike poster 
45 x 31 inches
114.3 x 78.7 cm

Edition of 2

  • New York, Salon 94 Freemans, For The Kids, June 23 – August 8, 2011 (edition 2)

    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 (edition 2)

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 – March 31, 2022 (edition 2)

  • Cunningham Benefit Art Exhibition and Sale, Merce Cunningham Dance Company 35th Anniversary, cat. (New York: BlumHelman Gallery, 1988) (ill.) (edition 1)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 155

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 177 (color ill. p. 177)

    Bettina Korek, "Go: Sports Art History," Huffington Post, July 12, 2011

    Jordan Schultz, "For the Kids: A Vintage Sports Poster Exhibition," Huffington Post, August 2, 2011

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. p. 118)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014) (color ill. p. 118)

    Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, exh. cat. (London: Phaidon, 2019) (color ill. p. 52)

    "HH The Amir visits Jeff Koons exhibition," Diwan (Qatar), November 20, 2021 https://www.diwan.gov.qa/briefing-room/news/activities-and-occasions/2021/november/20/hh-the-amir-visits-exhibition-of-artist-jeff-koons-at-mia

    "Amir visits Jeff Koons exhibition," The Peninsula Qatar, November 20, 2021 https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/20/11/2021/amir-visits-jeff-koons-exhibition

    Jeff Koons. Lost in America, ed. Massimiliano Gioni, exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2021) p. 45 (color ill. p. 45)

    Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022 https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/jeff-koons/

Truck
1985

framed Nike poster 
45 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches 
115.6 x 80 cm

Edition of 2 

  • N/a

  • 10th Annual LACE Benefit Art Auction (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition) (color ill.)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 155

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 159 (color ill. p. 159)

Zungul
1985

framed Nike poster 
45 3/4 x 31 1/4 inches 
116.2 x 79.4 cm

Edition of 2 

  • Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980 - 2002, September 22 – November 10, 2002 (edition 1)

    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)

    Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Dada's Boys: Identity and Play in Contemporary Art, May 27 – July 16, 2006 (edition 1)

    New York, New York Fort Gansevoort, March Madness, March 18 – May 1, 2016 (edition 1)

  • The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 156

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), pp. 42, 97 (color ill. p. 43)

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 34, 146 (color ill. p. 34)

    Dada's Boys: Identity and Play in Contemporary Art (Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery, 2006), p. 45 (color ill. p. 45)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 173 (color ill. p. 173)

The Williams
1985

framed Nike poster 
45 1/2 x 31 inches 
115.6 x 78.7 cm

Edition of 2 

  • New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980 - 2002, September 22 – November 10, 2002

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

    Copenhagen Contemporary, Art of Sport, March 25 – October 24, 2021 (edition 1)

  • Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 58 (color ill. p. 58)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 155

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003), p. 40 (color ill. p. 41)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 177 (color ill. p. 177)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016) pp. 28, 100 (color ill. p. 29; color ill. pp. 88-89, Newport Street Gallery installation, color ill. p. 100)

    Jeff Koons. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021) (color ill. p. 183, Newport Gallery installation)

One Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series)
1985

glass, steel, distilled water, and one basketball
64 3/4 x 30 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
164.5 x 78.1 x 33.7 cm

Edition of 2

  • New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 — June 2, 1985 (Molton Basketball)

    Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Dada's Boys: Identity and Play in Contemporary Art, May 27 — July 16, 2006 (edition 1)

    London, The Royal Academy of Arts, Modern British Sculpture, January 22 — April 7, 2011 (edition 1)

    Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, True Stories, A Show Related to an Era—The Eighties: Part II, November 9 — December 22, 2018 (edition 1)

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021—March 31, 2022 (edition 2)

  • Gary Indiana, "Paradigms of Dysfunction," Village Voice, June 11, 1985, p. 91 (ill. p. 91)

    "Album: Four Artists, Jay Gorney Modern Art, January 4-30," Arts Magazine 60, no. 5 (January 1986), p. 121 (ill. p. 121)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Tropical Codes," Kunstforum, March 1986, p. 324 (color ill. p. 324)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Spiritual America," CEPA Quarterly 1, no. 3 (Spring 1986), p. 6 (ill. p. 6)

    Alan Jones, "Jeff Koons: Et qui libre," Galeries Magazine, October 1986, p. 95 (color ill. p. 95)

    David Joselit, "Modern Leisure," in Endgame, Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986), p. 85 (ill. p. 85)

    Collins, Tricia and Richard Milazzo. "Radical Consumption and the New Poverty." New Observations Issue 51 (October 1987), p. 9 (ill. p. 9)  

    Kay Larson, "Good Neighbors," New York Magazine 20, no. 17 (April 27, 1987), p.122

    Hiroko Tamaka, "Jeff Koons," (text in Japanese) Hi Fashion (Tokyo), August 1988, pp. 2136, 2137, (ill. pp. 2136, 2137)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), p. 57 (color ill. p. 57)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 154

    Zoran Bozovic, "Zelim da rascistim sa razlikom izmedu privatnog i umetnickog," (Text in Croatian) Moment 23/24 (Croatia) (September/October 1994), p. 45 (color ill.p. 45)

    Norman Rosenthal, Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, exh cat. (London: Royal Academy of Art Publishing, 2000)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), pp. 36, 37 (color ill. p. 37)

    Jeff Koons, Portrait d'un artiste unique au parcours emblematique," Dedicate, April 2006, p. 57 (color ill. p. 57)

    Jean-Marie Dubois, "Fiac 2006: Paris au centre de la création", Paris Capitale, October 2006, p. 49 (color ill. 49)

    Dada's Boys: Identity and Play in Contemporary Art (Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery, 2006), p. 45 (ill. p, 45)

    Mark Brown, "Royal Academy reveals details of 20th-century British sculpture show," The Guardian, September 8, 2010, pp. 6, 7, 17, 89 (color ill. p. 17)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 143 (color ill. p. 143)

    JRS, "Skin Fruit / Jeff Koons' Curatorial Debut at the New Museum,” Spread, March 8, 2010, (color ill.; detail)

    Mike Collett-White, "British Sculpture Survey Sharply Divides Critics," Toronto Sun, September 19, 2011, (color ill.)

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

    Richard Lacayo, "Show Me the Bunny: As he closes in on 60, Jeff Koons finally gets his really big show," TIME Magazine 184, no. 1 (July 7-14, 2014), p. 93 (color ill. 93)

    Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective, L'Album de L'Exposition, eds. Julie Champion, Caroline Edde (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 13 (color ill. p. 13)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of the Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 38 (color ill. p. 38)

    Luther Blissett, "Sept moments-clefs dans une vie d'artiste," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2014, pp. 8, 9 (color ill. pp. 8, 9)

    Ines Viturro, "Jeff Koons presento su Ballerina en el Malba," Vanidades, April 14, 2016 (color ill.)

    Will Pavia, "How to Turn a Balloon into 58 Million," The Times Magazine (UK), February 2, 2019, p. 35 (color ill. p. 35)

    Andrew French, "American art legend Jeff Koons visits Ashmolean Museum in Oxford," Oxford Mail (England), February 6, 2019 (color ill.)

    Adrian Searle, "Jeff Koons review – haemorrhoid horrors from the artist who's too expensive to fail," The Guardian (UK), February 6, 2019 (color ill.) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/06/jeff-koons-review-ashmolean-museum-oxford

    Waldemar Januszczak, "Koons at the Ashmolean: like Popeye giving the Reith Lectures," The Sunday Times, February 10, 2019 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/waldemar-januszczak-art-review-jeff-koons-ashmolean-museum-oxford-ssqfcdjht

    Tadashi Kobayashi, "Essay (no. 3) on Kokufu Osamu’s, Engine in the Water," (Text in Japanese) Bulletin of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, no. 14 (March 25, 2020), p. 22 (ill. p. 22)

    "HH The Amir visits Jeff Koons exhibition," Diwan (Qatar), November 20, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.diwan.gov.qa/briefing-room/news/activities-and-occasions/2021/november/20/hh-the-amir-visits-exhibition-of-artist-jeff-koons-at-mia

    Léa Polverini, "Une semaine dans le monde en 7 photos, du 20 au 26 novembre 2021," Slate (France), November 27, 2021 (color ill.)  http://www.slate.fr/grand-format/une-semaine-dans-le-monde-en-7-photos-du-20-au-26-novembre-2021-219735

    Franco Fanelli, "Jeff Koons, il mormone pornografo," Il Giornale dell'Arte (Italy), December 23, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/articoli/jeff-koons-il-mormone-pornografo/137718.html

    Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022 https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/jeff-koons/

Two Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series, Wilson Supershot)
1985

glass, steel, distilled water, and two basketballs
62 3/4 x 36 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches
159.4 x 93.3 x 33.7 cm

Edition of 2

  • New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987 Whitney Biennial, April 10 – July 5, 1987 (edition 1)

    New York, City University of New York, Graduate Centre Art Gallery, Play's the Thing. Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art, May 25 – July 8, 2001 (edition 2)

    New York, PaceWildenstein Gallery, Distillation to Complication: 40 Years of Rule Based Art, February – March 2005 (edition 2)

    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

  • Alan Jones, "The Art of the Slam Dunk," NY Talk, May 1985

    Daniela Salvioni, "Interview with McCollum and Koons," Flash Art, December 1986 / January 1987, p. 67

    Gary Indiana, "Another Review of the Whitney," Village Voice, April 28, 1987, p. 87 (ill. p. 87)

    Mary Ann Marger, "A Glimpse at the State of American Arts," St. Petersburg Times, June 7, 1987, p. E-3

    Jane Addams Allen, "Chilly Cynicism a Portent of Trouble," Insight Magazine, June 15, 1987

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Radical Consumption and the New Poverty," New Observations Issue 51 (October 1987), p. 15

    Alan G. Artner, "Market Valued What Jeff Koons' Work Says About the Art World," The Chicago Tribune, July 31,1988 (ill. p.16)

    Arthur C. Danto, "Art: The 1989 Whitney Biennial," The Nation, June 1989, p. 790

    Silvia Robertazzi, "Jeff Koons: NY Art Business," (text in English and Italian), 1990 (ill.)

    "An Evening with Jeff Koons," The Smithsonian 18, no. 7 (March 1990), p. 12

    Jenny Attiyeh, "Artrepreneurs," Culture Concrete, Summer 1991, p. 11

    Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, (Cologne: Taschen, 1992), p. 165

    Jeff Koons and Robert Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d’Offay Gallery and Thames and Hudson, 1992), p. 156

    Frank Motz, Play's the Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001), p. 11 (ill. p. 11)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen 2007), p. 157 (color ill. p. 157)

    Jeff Canning ed., “Exhibit to Focus on the Art of the 1980s” Peekskill-CortlandtPatch, September 2011, p. (color ill. p. 64)

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), pp. 6, 7, 89 (color ill. p. 22)

    Fondazione Prada, Ca' Corner Della Regina, exh. cat., ed., Germano Celant (Venice: Fondazione Prada, 2011), pp. 98, 99 (color ill. p. 99)

    Artprice Contemporary Art Market: The Artprice Annual Report 2007/2008, pp. 35, 137 (color ill. pp. 35, 137)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 7, 66, 73, 219, 286 (color ill. p. 66, pl. 26; color ill. p. 73, fig. 8)

    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. 8, 74, 81, 228, 298 (color ill. p. 74, pl. 26; color ill. p. 81, fig. 8)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Retrospective: The Portfolio of the Exhibition (France: Centre Pompidou, 2014) p. 40 (color ill. p. 40)

    Michaël Amy, "A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing," Sculpture 34, no. 2 (March 2015), p. 58

    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. 10, p. 70, 77, 231, 297 (color ill. p. 70, pl. 26; color ill. p. 77, fig. 8)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of the Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 40 (color ill. p. 40)

    Udo Kittlemann, Sammlung Marx: 40 Werke (Berlin: Edition Cantz, 2019), pp. 110, 111

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts Éditions, May 2021, p. 15 (color ill. p. 15)

Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series)
1985

glass, steel, distilled water, and three basketballs 
60 1/2 x 48 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
153.7 x 123.8 x 33.7 cm

Edition of 2

  • New York, International Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Life-Size: A Sense of the Real in Recent Art, September 4 – December 19, 1990

    London, Gagosian Gallery, Pop Art is, September 27 – November 10, 2007 (edition 2)

    Miami, Rubell Family Collection, Beg Borrow and Steal, December 2, 2009 – August 27, 2010; Palm Springs, Palm Springs Art Museum, February 2 – June 2, 2013; Roanoke, Taubman Museum of Art, October 11, 2014 – January 10, 2015 (edition 1)

    Miami, Rubell Family Collection, American Exuberance, November 30, 2011 – July 27, 2012 (edition 1)

    Turin, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Freedom Not Genius, November 10, 2012 – March 10, 2013 (edition 2)

    Sydney, Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Pop to Popism, November 1, 2014 – March 1, 2015 (edition 2)

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

    Copenhagen Contemporary, Art of Sport, March 25 – October 24, 2021 (edition 2)

  • Joshua Dector, "New Ground," Arts Magazine 60, no. 4 (December 1985), p. 123 (ill. p. 123)

    Norma Lifton, "Jeff Koons," New Art Examiner, December 1985 (ill. p. 50)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Spiritual America," CEPA Quarterly 1, no. 3, Spring 1986, p.6 (ill. p. 6)

    Jeanne Siegal, "Jeff Koons: Unachievable States of Being," Arts Magazine 61, no. 2 (October 1986), p. 71 (color ill. p. 71)

    Douglas C. McGill, "Helping the Rich Buy Art," The New York Times, April 22, 1987, p.C19 (ill.)

    Michael Welzenbach, “’Avant-Garde in the Eighties’ L.A. looks at the rhetoric of Postmodernism,” New Art Examiner, Summer 1987, p. 34

    Christoper Flacke, "Held in Suspense," Art & Antiques, Summer 1987, p. 25 (ill. p. 25)

    Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, "NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection," Flash Art, November-December 1987 (ill. installation view), p. 109 (ill. p. 109, installation view)

    Howard N. Fox, Avant-Garde in the Eighties, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987) (ill. p. 15)

    Ann Landi, "Corporate Culture: Advice and Dissent," Manhattan Inc. 5, no. 1 (January 1988), p. 105

    Stephen Luecking, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art," New Art Examiner 16, no. 3 (November 1988), p. 41

    OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, exh. cat. (Newport Beach, Calif.: Newport Harbor Art Museum; New York: Rizzoli, 1990), p. 85 (ill. p. 85)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 59, 65 (color ill. pp. 59, 65)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992) pp. 60, 155 (color ill. p. 61, as "Three Ball 50/50 Tank")

    Jeff Koons and John Caldwell et al. Jeff Koons. exh. cat (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992) (color ill. pl. 16)

    Sørensen, Jens Erik & Anders Kold (ed.). Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, exh. cat. Århus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum Denmark, 1993 p. 31

    Arthur Lubow, "Tough Lady," Worth, October 1995, pp.119, 122 (ill. p. 122)

    Paul Bob, "Postmodern Pop," Esquire, September 1996, p. 252 (color ill. p. 252)

    "La Collection Broad," Vogue Paris, December 1997 (color ill. p. 207)

    Stephanie Barron, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001), p. 117 (color ill. p. 117)

    David Rimanelli, “Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties," Artforum 39, no. 5 (February 2002) (color ill. installation veiw p. 145) https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/200102/around-1984-a-look-at-art-in-the-eighties-31760

    Christine Temin, "A blur of life and art with Jeff Koons at MFA," Boston Globe, July 24, 2002

    Alessandra Mammi, "Dalla Staller alle stelle," (Text in Italian) L'espresso, no. 23 (June 5, 2003), p. 126 (ill. p. 126)

    Eduardo Cicelyn and Mario Codognato, Jeff Koons. Naples: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli and Electa Napoli, 2003, p. 39 (color ill. p. 39)

    Julie L. Belcove, "Modern Family," W (April 2004), p. 326 (color ill. p. 326)

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

    "Making the Most of Miami's Art Scene," Town & Country, Fall 2004, p. 101 (color ill. p. 101)

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

    Mark Coetzee, Rubell Family Collection: Not Afraid (London: Phaidon, 2004), p. 159 (color ill. p. 159)

    Jeff Koons: Highlights of Twenty-Five Years. exh. cat., New York: C&M Arts, 2004, pp. 25, 81

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

    Camilla Long, "Loony Koons," Tatler 3, no. 5 (May 2007), p. 122

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 179 (color ill. p. 179)

    John Stourton, Great Collectors of our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 (London: Scala Publishers Ltd, 2007), p. 185

    Pop Art Is...,eds. Mark Francis and Stefan Ratibor, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian, 2007), no. 99 (color ill.)

    David W. Galenson, “Precocious Prodigies & Late Bloomers,” The Art Economist, July 2009, p. 72

    Peter Richter, "Art Car No. XVII by Jeff Koons," BMW Magazine, February 2010

    Steel Stillman, "The Feature Story," Art in America (December 2010), p. 59 (ill. p. 59, back cover)

    Pop to Popism, exh. cat., ed. by Wayne Tunnicliffe and Anneke Jaspers (Art Gallery of New South Wales, November 2, 2014), pp. 261, 302 (color ill. p. 261)

    Luther Blissett, “Les obsessions majeures de Koons,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, p. 28

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

    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

    Mark Hudson, "Does this new show reveal Jeff Koons's greatest contribution to art? - review," The Telegraph, May 18, 2016, (color ill.)

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

    Henri Neuendorf, "According to Damien Hirst, You Can't Make Art Without Money," Artnet News, May 19, 2016 (color ill.)

    "Jeff Koons: Showing the Love for Irony and Pseudo Philosophical Claptrap," Artlyst, May 20, 2016 (color ill.)

    Almine Rech Gallery Newsletter 18, June-December 2016, p. 99 (color ill. p. 99)

    Michael Archer and Hugh Allen, Jeff Koons: Now, exh. cat. (London: Other Criteria, 2016) pp. 86, 87 (color ill. pp. 86, 87)

    Raul Barrenche, "High Impact" Galerie, Spring 2017, p. 81, (color ill. p. 81)

    Gianni Jetzer, Leah Pires, Bob Nickas, Brand New: Art & Commodity in the 1980s, exh. cat. (New York: Rizzoli, 2018) (color ill. p. 76; cover)

    Paul Laster, "Jeff Koons in His Own Words," Ocula (London, UK), January 5, 2022 https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/jeff-koons/

Two Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series, Spalding Dr. J 241 Series)
1985

glass, steel, distilled water, and two basketballs 
62 3/4 x 36 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
159.4 x 93.3 x 33.7 cm

Edition of 2  

  • New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    London, Saatchi Gallery, NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, September 1987 – January 1988 (edition 2)

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

    Dusseldorf, Germany, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Analysis of Flight Data: Art of the 80s - A Dusseldorf Perspective, September 11, 2010 – January 30, 2011

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (edition 2)

  • Alan Jones, "The Art of the Slam Dunk," NY Talk, May 1985 (ill. p. 47)

    David Joselit, "Modern Leisure," Endgame, Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986) (ill. p. 85, International with Monument installation)

    Dan Cameron, "Pretty as a Product," Arts Magazine 60, no. 9 (May 1986), pp. 4, 22-24 (color ill. p. 23)

    Peter Nagy, "From Criticism to Complicity,” Flash Art, May 1986 (ill. p. 46)

    Daniela Salvioni, "Interview with McCollum and Koons," Flash Art, December 1986 / January 1987, pp. 6

    Dan Cameron, NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, exh. cat. (Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1987), pp. 7, 237 (color ill. p. 131)

    Eleanor Heartney, “The Hot New Cool Art: Simulationism," ARTnews, January 1987, (color ill. p. 137)

    Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective, exh. cat. (Madrid, Spain: Fundación Caja De Pensiones, 1987) (ill. p. 69)

    Mary Ann Marger, "A Glimpse at the State of American Arts," St. Petersburg Times, June 7, 1987, p. E-3

    Jane Addams Allen, "Chilly Cynicism a Portent of Trouble," Insight Magazine, June 15, 1987, 59

    Grace Glueck, "New Art Trend's Name: 'Neo-Geo'...Maybe," New York Times, July 6, 1987, p. 14. (color ill. p. 14)

    Robert Pincus-Whitten, "Electrostatic Cling: Or the Massacre of Innocence," Artscribe, no. 64 (Summer 1987), pp. 36-41 (color ill. p. 37, Art and Its Double installation)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Radical Consumption and the New Poverty," New Observations Issue 51 (October 1987), p. 15.  (ill. p. 9.)

    Jean-Michel Foray, Jean-Pierre Criqui, L'Objet de l'Exposition, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre National des Arts Plastiques, 1988)

    Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988) (ill. p.18)

    Alan G. Artner, "Market Valued What Jeff Koons' Work Says About the Art World," The Chicago Tribune, July 31,1988, (ill. p.16)

    Arthur C. Danto, "Art: The 1989 Whitney Biennial," The Nation, June 1989, p. 790

    Michael Compton, "Pop Art II -- Jeff Koons & Co," Art & Design, July 1989, (color ill. p. 44)

    Micheal Compton, "Pop Art II - Jeff Koons & Co," Art & Design, August 1989 (color ill. p. 44)

    James Hall, "Neo-Geo's Bachelor Artists," Art International 9, (Winter 1989), pp. 4, 30-35 (color ill., p. 32, installation view, photo credit to Saatchi Collection

    Encontros Luso-Americanos de Arte Contemporanea/Portuguese-American Meetings on Contemporary Art: Contemporary American Sculpture, Signs of Life, ed. by Fernando de Azevedo, Judith Russi Krishner (Lisbon: Fundacao Calouste Gulbekian, 1989) (color ill. p. 56)

    Jean-Christophe Ammann, "Der Fall Jeff Koons," Parkett, no. 19 (Zurich 1989), (color ill. p. 55)

    Silvia Robertazzi, "Jeff Koons: NY Art Business," (text in English and Italian), 1990, (ill., captioned Two Ball 50/50 Container)

    "An Evening with Jeff Koons," The Smithsonian 18, no. 7 (March 1990), p. 12 (ill. p. 12, detail)

    Jenny Attiyeh, "Artrepreneurs," Culture Concrete, Summer 1991, pp. 11, 15 (ill. p. 15)

    Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, (Cologne: Taschen, 1992), p. 165. p. 52-53 (detail)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 156

    Jeff Koons: 30 Postcards (Cologne: Taschen, 1992) (color ill.)

    Jeff Rian, "Raising Adolescence: In Praise of Teenage Shoplifters and Miscreants," Flash Art, Summer 1993 (color ill. p. 76)

    Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwart, exh. cat. (Prestel-Verlag: Munich, 1996), p. 133 (ill. p. 133

    Frank Motz, "Bread and Circus," Whitney Issue, July 2001 (ill. p. 11)

    Frank Motz, Play's the Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001), p. 1

    Amy Dempsey, Styles, Schools and Movements: An Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art, (London: 2002) (color ill. p. 281)

    Rainer Crone, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M, 2004), p. 12

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen 2007), pp. 146, 148, 152, 156, 585 (ill. 146, another 50/50 tank; (color ill. p. 169)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 41, 113 (color ill. p. 41)

    "25 Years at the Saatchi Gallery," ArtReview 49 (February 2011) (color ill. pp. 26-27, NY Art Now installation)

    "25 Years at the Saatchi Gallery; 25 Years: Some of the 300 Artists Exhibited," Artforum XLIX, no. 6 (February 2011), p. 100 ) (color ill. p. 100, NY Art Now installation)

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), pp. 6, 7, 22, 89

    Fondazione Prada, Ca' Corner Della Regina, Milan, Progetto Prada Arte, 2011, pp. 99, (color ill. p. 99), 389

    Artprice Contemporary Art Market: The Artprice Annual Report 2007/2008, (color ill. p. 35; color ill. p. 137)

    Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, Scott Rothkopf, and Alexander Nagel, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, ed. Scott Rothkopf, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp. 7 (as "Two Ball 50/50 Tank"), 66, 73, 219, 286 (color ill. p. 66, pl. 26; color ill. p. 73, fig. 8, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen installation)

    Pilar Ordovas, ed., Self: Bacon, Hirst, Koons, Picasso, exh. cat. (Ordovas Uckfield, England: Ordovas, 2014), pp. 16-17 (ill.)

    Michaël Amy, "A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing," Sculpture 34, no. 2 (March 2015), p. 58

    Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words (Athens: Deste, 2019), pp. 44, 121 (color ill. p. 45)

    Udo Kittlemann, Sammlung Marx: 40 Werke (Berlin: Edition Cantz, 2019), pp. 110-111 (color ill. p.110, image flipped)

    Peter Nagy, "Time Machine: From Criticism to Complicity," Flash Art (Milan) 53, no. 329 (February-March 2020), pp. 46-53 (color ill. p. 46, caption incorrectly lists Wilson Supershot)

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

    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. Shine, eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino, exh. cat. (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021) (color ill. p. 172)

Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Two Spalding Dr. J Silver Series, Wilson Supershot)
1985

glass, steel, distilled water, and three basketballs 
60 1/2 x 48 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
153.7 x 123.8 x 33.7 cm

Edition of 2 

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

    San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10 – October 3, 1993 (edition 2)

    New York, Museum of Modern Art, On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection, September 30, 1997 – January 20, 1998 (edition 1)

    Santa Monica, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Group Show, December 10,1997 – July 21,1999 (edition 2)

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection, October 7, 2001 – January 6, 2002; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, March 16 – June 3, 2002; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, July 28 – October 20, 2002; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, February 15, 2003 – September 7, 2003 (edition 2)

    New York, Museum of Modern Art, Out of Time: A Contemporary View, August 30, 2006 – April 9, 2007 (edition 1)

    New York, Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Collection, November 16, 2011 – February 9, 2014 (edition 1)

  • Joshua Dector, "New Ground," Arts Magazine 60, no. 4 (December 1985), p. 123 (ill. p. 123)

    Norma Lifton, "Jeff Koons," New Art Examiner, December 1985 (ill. p. 50)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Spiritual America," CEPA Quarterly 1, no. 3, Spring 1986, p. 6 (ill. p. 6)

    Paul Bob, "Postmodern Pop," Esquire 106, no. 3 (September 1986), p. 252 (color ill. p. 252)

    Jeanne Siegal, "Jeff Koons: Unachievable States of Being," Arts Magazine 61, no. 2 (October 1986), p. 71 (color ill. p. 71)

    Douglas C. McGill, "Helping the Rich Buy Art," The New York Times, April 22, 1987, p. C19 (ill. p. C19)

    Christoper Flacke, "Held in Suspense," Art & Antiques, Summer 1987, p. 25 (ill. p. 25)

    Ann Landi, "Corporate Culture: Advice and Dissent," Manhattan Inc. 5, no. 1 (January 1988), p. 105

    Stephen Luecking, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art," New Art Examiner 16, no. 3 (November

    People Magazine, June 1999, pp. 67-68

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), pp. 60, 155 (color ill. p. 61, as "Three Ball 50/50 Tank")

    John R. Lane (foreword), John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau (exhibition history and bibliography), Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), pp. 15, 20, 59, 131 (color ill. p. 59, pl. 16)

    Jeff Koons, eds. Jens Erik Sørensoen and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Denmark: Aarhaus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 31 (color ill. p. 31, pl. 16)

    Jens Erik Sørenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sørenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), pp. 31, 111 (color ill. p. 31)

    Arthur Lubow, "Tough Lady," Worth, October 1995, pp. 119, 122 (ill. p. 122, Dannheisser's Tribeca installation)

    Margaret Steele and Cindy Estes, The Art of Shapes for Children and Adults (Los Angeles: The MOCA Store, 1997) (color ill. p. 3; color ill. p. 4, detail of Dr. J Silver series basketball)

    Robert Storr and Kurt Varnedoe, On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection, exh. cat. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, H.N. Abrams, 1997) (color ill. p. 79)

    Joshua Siegel, Kirk Varnedoe and Paola Antonelli, "Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980," (New York: H.N Abrams, The Museum of Modern Art, 2000) (color ill. p. 129)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 39 (color ill. p. 39)

    Rosa Martinez, Çekim Merkezi / Centre of Gravity, exh. cat. (Istanbul: Istanbul Museum of Art, 2005), pp. 176, 178-79 (color ill. p. 177)

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

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007) (color ill. p. 178)

    "Some favourite examples of contemporary artist who have put their Warhol on," The Saatchi Gallery Magazine Art&Music 3 (Autumn 2008) (color ill. p. 26)

    David W. Galenson, "Precocious Prodigies and Late Bloomers," The Art Economist 1, no. 2 (July 2011), p. 73 (color ill. p. 72)

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014) (color ill. p. 66)

    The Broad Collection, ed. Joanne Heyler with Ed Schad and Chelsea Beck (Los Angeles: The Broad, Delmonico Books an imprint of Prestel Publishing, 2015), pp. 10, 21, (color ill. p. 86)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015) p. 27 (color ill. p. 26)

    Paul Bob, "Postmodern Pop," Esquire, September 1996, p. 252 (color ill. p. 252)

    The Broad Foundations Entrepreneurship for the Public Good 2015-2016 (Los Angeles: The Broad Art Foundations, 2016) (color ill. p. 109)

    Edward Lucie-Smith, "Jeff Koons - The Art of Not Quite Now," Artlyst, May 20, 2016 (color ill.)

    Jérémie Nassir, When Basketball Inspires (Paris: Trajectoire Studio 2019) (color ill. p. 34)

    Carlos Rolón, Dan Peterson and John Dennis, Common Practice- Basketball & Contemporary Art (Milan, Italy: Skira, 2020), p. 66: (color ill. p. 66)

    Thea B. Van Oosten, Properties of Plastics: A Guide for Conservators (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2022) (color ill. p. 90)

One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding Dr. J 241 Series)
1985

glass, steel, sodium chloride reagent, distilled water, and one basketball
64 3/4 x 30 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
164.5 x 78.1 x 33.7 cm

Edition of 2 

  • New York, International with Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Chicago, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, New Sculpture: Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, May 7 – June 21, 1986 (edition 2)

    New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987 Whitney Biennial, April 10 – July 5, 1987 (edition 2)

    Athens, DEKA Foundation, House of Cyprus, Cultural Geometry, January 18 – April 17, 1988 (edition 1)

    Thessaloniki, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Port Authority of Thessaloniki, Eliminating the Atlantic, May 12 – June 16, 1990 (edition 1)

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

    San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 – February 7, 1993; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, July 10, 1992 – October 3, 1993 (edition 2)

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

    New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life, May 25 – August 26, 1997; London, Hayward Gallery, October 9, 1997 – January 4, 1998 (edition 2)

    Cyprus, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Forever. Shortcuts: Works form the Dakis Joannou Collection, November 28, 2001 – March 31, 2002 (edition 1)

    Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Jeff Koons, June 9 – September 15, 2003 (edition 1)

    Athens, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Monument to Now, June 22 – December 31, 2004 (edition 1)

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

    New York, New Museum, Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeff Koons, March 3 – June 6, 2010 (edition 1)

    Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor, June 20 – September 23, 2012 (edition 1)

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (edition 2)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (edition 1)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (edition 1)

    Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, February 7 – June 9, 2019 (edition 2)

    Florence, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Jeff Koons. Shine, October 2, 2021 – January 31, 2022 (edition 1)

  • Walter Robinson, "'The New Capital' at White Columns," Art in America, April 1985, p. 208

    Mary Anne Staniszewski, "Hot Commodities,” Manhattan, inc., June 1986 (color ill. p. 158)

    Alan Jones, "Jeff Koons: Et qui libre," Galeries Magazine, October 1986 (color ill. p. 95) (Spalding Dr. J Silver series)

    Europa/Amerika: Die Geschichte einer kunstlerischen Faszination seit 1940, ed. Sigfried Gohr and Rafael Jablonka, exh. cat. (Cologne: Museum Ludwig Köln, 1986), p. 316 (color ill. p. 316, cat. 93, International with Monument installation)

    Frank Owen, "Neo Geo: 1960s Pop Art Re-Invents Itself in the Form of Late 1980s Consumer Kitsch," i-D, February 1987 (color ill. p. 91) (Spalding Dr. J Silver series)

    Matt Damsker, "Change of Mood at the Whitney. Exhibit blends the best of contemporary art," The Hartford Courant, April 20, 1987, (color ill. p. B1

    Kay Larson, "Good Neighbors," New York Magazine 20, no. 17 (April 27, 1987), (ill. p. 122, Whitney Biennial installation)

    Gary Indiana, "Another Review of the Whitney," Village Voice, April 28, 1987 (ill. p. 87, Whitney Biennial installation)

    Robert Atkins, "Two Years On," Horizon, April 1987 (ill. p. 29)

    Jane Addams Allen, "Chilly Cynicism a Portent of Trouble," Insight Magazine, June 15, 1987, pp. 58-59 (color ill. p. 59)

    Mary Ann Marger, "A glimpse at the state of American Arts," St. Petersburg Times, June 7, 1987 (color ill. p. 59)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Radical consumption and the new poverty," New Observations, issue 51 (October 1987), p.12 (ill. p. 12)

    Allan Schwartzman, "The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc., no. 12 (December 1987) (color ill. p.139

    1987 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987) (color ill. p. 69) (Dr. J Silver Series)

    Dan Cameron, NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, exh. cat. (Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1987), p.132 (color ill. p. 132)

    Paul Taylor, "My Art Belongs to Dada," The Observer (London), September 6, 1987, pp. 36-37 (color ill.) (Dr. J Silver Series)

    John Caldwell and Michael Newman, Carnegie International - 1988, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel, 1988)

    Cultural Geometry, ed. by Jeffrey Deitch and Peter Halley, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 1988) (color ill. p. 21)

    John Russel, "At the Saatchi Collection, a Thin Show of 'NY Art,'" The New York Times, January 3, 1988, (ill. p. H27)

    Stuart Morgan, "School of Athens," Artscribe, March/April 1988 (ill. p. 9)

    Donald Kuspit, "The Opera is Over: A Critique of Eighties Sensibility," Artscribe, September/October 1988 (color ill. p. 46) (Dr. J Silver Series)

    Roberta Smith, "Investigating the Ordinary" and Rituals of Consumption," Art in America, May 1988, (color ill. p.165) (Dr. J Silver Series)

    Stephen Luecking, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art," New Art Examiner 16, no. 3 (November 1988), p. 41

    I. Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, ext. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988, pp. 17, 39 (ill. p. 17, pl. 9; ill. p. 40, detail; color ill. cover)

    Richard Lacayo, "Artist Jeff Koons Makes, and Earns, Giant Figures," People Magazine, May 1989 (ill.) (Dr. J Silver Series)

    Jerry Saltz, "Playing for Keeps: The art of the eighties is the focus of a gallery-like loft," House & Garden, October 1989 (color ill. pp. 166-167 - listed as "Single Equilibrium Tank")

    Eliminating the Atlantic, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 1990)

    Andrew Renton, “Super Star,” Blitz Magazine, no. 85 (January 1990) (color ill. p. 55)

    Dodie Kazanjian, "Koons Crazy," Vogue, August 1990, p. 340 (color ill. p. 341)

    "Hommage An Armani: Koons-Werk," Elle (Germany), September 1991, p. 178 (color ill. p. 178)

    Weitersehem (1880-1990), exh. cat. (Krefeld: Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters,1990), p. 42, (ill. p. 42, installation view)

    Susanne Weingarten, "König im Kitschland," (Text in German) Der Spiegel, no. 49 (November 30, 1992) (color ill. p. 286)

    John R. Lane (foreword), John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau (exhibition history and bibliography), Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992) (color ill. p. 12)

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), pp. 18, 98 (color ill. p. 19) (Dr. J Silver Series)

    Jeff Koons, eds. Jens Erik Sorensoen and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Denmark: Aarhaus Kunstmuseum, 1993) p. 29 (color ill. p. 29, pl. 14, as "One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Dr. J Silver Series)")

    Jens Erik Sorenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons - Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sorenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), pp. 29, 111 (color ill. p. 29, as "One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series)")

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), pp. 54, 154 (color ill. p. 55, as 'One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 55, 57, 165 (color ill. p. 19, International with Monument installation; color ill. p. 55, fig. 3; color ill. p. 57, International with Monument installation)

    Bruce Gibson, "Art for Art's Sake," Speak Up, May 1993 (color ill. p. 41)

    American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993, eds. Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal (Munich/London/Berlin: Prestel-Verlag, Royal Academy of Arts, ZEITGEIST-Gesellschaft e. V., 1993), (color ill. pl. 249)

    "Can Art Reconstruct Paradise?" The Art Magazine (Athens) February 1994, p. 29 (color ill. p. 29)

    The Dakis Joannou Collection: Everything That's Interesting Is New, ed. Jeffrey Deitch, exh. cat. (Ostfilden: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art and Cantz Verlag, 1996), pp. 148, 285, 287 (color ill. p. 12; color ill. p. 14; color ill. p. 149; color ill. p. 286, partial; color ill. p. 289 Cultural Geometry installation)

    Margit Rowell, Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life, exh. cat. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1997), pp. 205, 222 (color ill. p. 205/plate 123)

    Dan Cameron, “International with Monument,” Artforum 38, no. 2 (October 1999), pp. 127-128 (color ill. cover, detail; color ill. p. 128)

    Burkhard Riemschneider and Uta Grosenick, ed., Art at the Turn of the Millennium. Cologne: Taschen, 1999, pp. 222, 287 (color ill. p. 205/plate 123)

    Jeffrey Deitch, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 1979-1999, ed. Katerina Gregos, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation, 1999), p. 5 (color ill. p. 5)

    Jeffrey Deitch, "Jeff Koons Celebration al di la dello specchio: Viaggio nel mondo Koons," Text in Italian) Flash Art International (Milan) 38, no. 240 (April-May 2000), p. 79

    "Les enfants du pop: deja vu," (text in French) Les Inrockuptibles, no. 281 (March 13-19, 2001) (color ill. p. 38)

    Ingrid Sischy, "Koons, High and Low," Vanity Fair, no. 487 (March 2001) (color ill. p. 270)

    Rolf E. Breuer, Thomas Krens, David Sylvester, and Robert Rosenblum, Jeff Koons Easyfun-Ethereal, eds. Lisa Dennison, Robert Rosenblum, Craig Houser, exh. cat. (Berlin and New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2000), p. 32 (color ill. p. 30, fig. 12)

    Shortcuts from the Dakis Joannou Collection, exh. cat. (Athens: DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Assoicated with the Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002), pp. 10, 14, 21, 36, 39, 44, 56-57, 60, 76 (color ill. p. 14, House of Cyrus installation; color ill. p. 39 Athens School of Fine Arts installation; color ill. p. 42 detail; color ill. p. 60 detail, A Millennium Celebration installation)

    Thomas Crow, “Marx to Sharks: The Art Historical '80s,” Artforum 41, no. 8 (April 2003), pp. 45, 51 (color ill. p. 44, detail of basketball; color ill. p. 48)

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003) (color ill. p. 19, International with Monument Gallery installation)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 36 (color ill. p. 37, as "One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank")

    Jonathan Heaf, "Blow Up," POP, no. 8 (Spring/Summer 2004), p. 322

    Valentina Agostinis, "Jeff Koons," Arte (November/ December 2004) (color ill. p. 67)

    Rainer Crone, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M, 2004)exh. cat. (New York: C&M Arts, 2004), pp. 44, 81 (color ill. p. 45, pl. 12; color ill. p. 81, pl. 12) (Silver series)

    Monument to Now, ed. Jeffrey Deitch, exh. cat. (Athens, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2004), pp. 57, 203, 204, 276-277 (color ill. p. 57; color ill. p. 203; color ill. p. 276; ill. 420, Cultural Geometry installation; color ill. 424, Post Human installation)

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

    "Monument to Fashion," ed. Michael Pandos, Vogue (Greece), no. 61 (May 2005), pp. 13, 192 (color ill. p. 13, Monument to Now installation; color ill. p. 193, Monument to Now installation)

    Mark Stevens, "The Biennial Question," New York Magazine, February 2006, p. 45 (color ill. p. 45)

    Paola Dezza, "Guarda Come Volano," (Text in Italian) Ventiquattro, March 7, 2006, p. 120

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006), p. 13

    Camilla Long, "Loony Koons," Tatler USA, May 2007 (color ill. p. 118)

    John Stourton, Great Collectors of our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 (London: Scala Publishers Ltd, 2007) p. 405 (color ill, p. 406, Monument to Now installation)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 12, 39, 113 (color ill. p. 39)

    Judicael Lavrador, “Jeff Koons: Un Baroque en Trompe-L’oeil,” Sculpture,Beaux Arts Editions 2008, p. 119

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2009), p. 143 (color ill. p. 143)

    Richard Lacayo, "Show Me the Bunny: As he Closes in on 60, Jeff Koons finally gets his really big show," TimeInc., July 2009

    Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeff Koons, ed. by Jarrett Gregory and Sarah Valdez (New York: D.A.P., 2010) (color ill. p. 79)

    Amy Larocca, "Intelligencer: Dakis Joannou," New York Magazine, March 8, 2010, p. 16

    “Who's Who,” IDEAT Magazine, no. 75 (March-April 2010), p. 154

    "Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection. Excerpts from an interview with Dakis Joannou and Jeff Koons," Paper Magazine 19 (May 2010), pp. 67 (color ill. p. 67)

    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), pp. 5, 11, 16, 18, 78, 202, all as "One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank" (color ill. p. 79)

    Skin Fruit: A View of a Collection Curated by Jeff Koons, ed. Karen Marta, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation, 2012), pp. 5, 8, 86 (color ill. pp. 46-47, The New Museum installation; color ill. pp. 48-49, The New Museum installation)

    Remembering Henry’s Show: Selected Works 1978-2008, exh. cat. (Greenwich: The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2010), p. 90 (color ill. pp. 78-79, Brant Foundation installation; color ill. p. 91; color ill. p. 175)

    Jeff Koons, "In the Freewheeling World of the Mind,” Tate Etc. 22, (Summer 2011), p. 61

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), cover, pp. 2, (color ill. cover), (color ill. inside cover), (color ill. p. 15), (color ill. p. 17, International With Monument installation), (color ill. p. 19, New Museum installation)

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), pp. 16, 173, 175, 206, as "One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank" (color ill. p. 16, fig. 3)

    Raphael Bouvier, Jeff Koons - Der Künstler Als Täufer (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlagx, 2012), p. 246, pl. 7

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Conversation Series 22: Jeff Koons (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2012), p. 13 (ill. p. 13)

    Max Hollein, Andreas Beyer, Monika Wagner, Walter Grasskamp, 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. 118, 188 (color ill. p. 119)

    John Wilmerding, The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art (New York: Acquavella Galleries/Rizzoli, 2013), p. 205

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

    Agustino Fontevecchia, "Art of the Ocean," Forbes, December 2013, p. 80

    Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New, eds., Ann Temkin and Claire Lehmann (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013), p. 163

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

    Katherine Brooks, “Jeff Koons - An Artist, Wrapped In A Mystery, Inside Shiny Stainless Steel,” HuffingtonPost, June 27, 2014 (color ill., Whitney installation) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-koons-a-retrospective_n_5538103

    John Waters, "Jeff Koons in Conversation with John Waters," Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2014 (color ill. p. 93)

    Richard Lacayo, "Show Me the Bunny: As he closes in on 60, Jeff Koons finally gets his really big show," TIME Magazine 184, no. 1 (July 7-14, 2014), p. 93 (color ill.)

    Manami Fujimori, "Jeff Koons," (Text in Japanese) Art Techo (Japan) 66, no. 1012 (October 2014) (color ill. p. 31; color ill. p. 37)

    "La Poule Aux Oeufs D'or," Le Figaro, November 25, 2014 (color ill. p. 28)

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

    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. 7, 63, 72, 219, 221, 286 (color ill. p. 63, pl. 23; color ill. p. 72, fig. 5, Liebieghaus Skulpturenammlung 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. 8, 71, 80, 228, 231, 298 (color ill. p. 71, pl. 23; color ill. p. 80, fig. 5, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation)

    Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014) (color ill. p. 98 International at Monument installation)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014) (color ill. p. 98 International at Monument installation)

    Luther Blissett, "Sept moments-clefs dans une vie d'artiste," (Text in French) Beaux Arts/TTM éditions (Paris), 2014, pp 8-9 (color ill. pp. 8-9, International with Monument installation)

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014) (color ill p. 67)

    Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, exh. cat. (China: Skira Rizzoli Publications, 2014), p. 92

    Michaël Amy, "A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing," Sculpture 34, no. 2 (March 2015), pp. 58 (color ill. p. 55)

    Marco Enrico Giacometti, “Arriva al Guggenheim di Bilbao la monumentale retrospettiva di Jeff Koons. Tante foto dalla preview della mostra che apre al pubblico questa settimana,” Artribune, June 8, 2015 (color ill. Guggenheim Bilbao 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), pp. 10, 67, 76, 231, 233, 298 (color ill. p. 67, pl. 23; color ill. p. 76, fig. 5, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation)

    Fresh Art New York (Korea: QuelPart, 2015), p. 31

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 28 (color ill. p. 29)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of the Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), pp. 36, 37, 39, 154, 156 (color ill. p. 39)

    Robin Pogrebin, "Christie's Auction: a Rock, a Basketball, Hitler on His Knees," The New York Times, April 14, 2016

    William Cook, "Jeff Koons: I love how art can change your life," Christie's, April 25, 2016 (color ill.)

    Hillary Louise Johnson, "Coloring Outside the Lines," Sactown, October/November 2016 (color ill. p. 73)

    Nina Stoller-Lindsey, "Jeff Konns's Science Projects," The Atlantic, July 17, 2017 (color ill.) https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/07/the-science-behind-the-art-of-jeff-koons/374614/

    Jan Dams and Thorstein Jungholt,“Soli-Abbau ist eine Frage der Glaubwurdigkeit,” in Die Welt, ed. by Jeff Koons, November 16, 2017 (color ill. p.12)

    Jose da Silva, "Jeff Koons's balloons, basketballs and ballerinas to head to historic Oxford museum for solo show," The Art Newspaper, October 26, 2018 (color ill.) https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/jeff-koons-exhibition-ashmolean-museum

    Laura Cumming, "Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean review – a master of deflection," The Guardian (UK), February 10, 2019 (color ill., Ashmolean installation) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/10/jeff-koons-ashmolean-museum-oxford-review-master-of-deflection

    Tim Hughes, "Jeff Koons shines at Ashmolean Museum Oxford," Oxford Mail (England), February 14, 2019 https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17434169.jeff-koons-shines-ashmolean-museum-oxford/

    Mark Westall, "Jeff Koons heads to university," FAD Magazine (England), February 15, 2019 (color ill.) https://fadmagazine.com/2019/02/15/jeff-koons-heads-to-university/

    Paul Black, "Jeff Koons Inflated Banality With An Impenetrable Surface The Ashmolean," Artlyst (UK), March 11, 2019 (color ill.) https://www.artlyst.com/reviews/jeff-koons-inflated-banality-impenetrable-surface-ashmolean-paul-black/

    Franca Toscano, "Jeff Koons dialogues with antiquity at Ashmolean Museum," Blouin Artinfo, March 2019 (color ill.)

    Adriana Góchez and Flores Soto, "Duchamp y Koons Entablan dialogo en apariencia desnuda," La Razón, May 17, 2019, pp. 2A (color ill. p. 2, Jumex installation)

    Xa Sturgis and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean, exh. cat. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2019), p. 34, (color ill. p. 35)

    Jérémie Nassir, When Basketball Inspires (Paris: Trajectoire Studio 2019) (color ill. p. 32; color ill. p. 33, detail)

    Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, Jeff Koons: 2000 Words (Athens: Deste, 2019), pp. 26, 46, 121, 135 (color ill. p. 47)

    "The most objective statement: the art of Jeff Koons and the readymade," Mas de Arte, February 10, 2020 (color ill.) https://masdearte.com/especiales/la-declaracion-mas-objetiva-el-arte-de-jeff-koons-y-el-readymade/

    Nakao Takuya, "Another Diagram," T-House New Balance Not Far #2 Magazine (Japan), November 2020 (color ill.)

    Finn Blythe, “I’m Trying to Become a Vaster Human Being”: Jeff Koons on Life and Art," AnOther (London, UK), October 14, 2021 https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13648/im-trying-to-become-a-vaster-human-being-jeff-koons-on-life-and-art

    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

    Pepi Nikopoulou, "Jeff Koons with the exhibition "Shine" at the Palazzo Strozzi: "Art does not exist in any of the objects. It is in the viewer "," El Culture (Greece), October 23, 2021 https://www.elculture.gr/blog/article/o-jeff-koons-me-tin-ekthesi-shine-sto-palazzo-strozzi-i-techni-den-yparchei-se-kanena-apo-ta-antikeimena-vrisketai-ston-theati/

    Jeff Koons. Shine, exh. cat., eds. Joachim Pissarro and Arturo Galansino (Venice: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., 2021), pp. 19, 53, 54, 71, 174 (color ill. p. 70, cat. 5; color ill. pp. 72-73, detail; color ill. p. 189)

    Massimiliano Gioni, Il desiderio messo a nudo, Conversazioni con Jeff Koons (Monza, IT: Johan & Levi editore, 2021) (color ill. p. 32)

    “The Gazing Eye: i Reel degli studenti Polimoda," Nove da Firenze (Italy), January 24, 2022 https://www.nove.firenze.it/the-gazing-eye-i-reel-degli-studenti-polimoda.htm Naoko Aono, "Jeff Koons produces the latest BMW Art Car. In Japan, in addition to auctions, special events are also held," Forbes Japan, April 28, 2022 https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/47150?internal=nav_bv_2

    Eleni Varvitsioti, "Koons installation lights up Greek island for his collector friend Dakis Joannou," Financial Times, July 1, 2022, p. 32 (color ill. p. 33)

    Emily Watkins, "Improvised Art, Wrangling the Readymade," Sociotype Journal 2, 2022-2023, p. 127 (color ill. p. 127)

    Flaminio Gualdoni, Arte Contemporanea - I Protagonisti: 04- Koons, Italy: Corriere Della Serra, 2022, p. 32 (color ill. p. 33)

    Jeff Koons: Apollo, exh. cat., eds.,Massimiliano Gioni and Karen Marta (Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Arts/Artbook D.A.P., 2023), p. 99

    Jeff Koons: 1979-1999, exh. cat. (Hong Kong: Art Intelligence Global, 2024), pp. 20, 36, 38 (color ill. pp. 34-35, basketball detail; color ill. pl. 4, p. 39; color ill. pp. 40-41, International with Monument Equilibrium installation 241 tank)

    Richard Whiddington, "Game On! 8 Contemporary Artworks That Challenge, Celebrate, and Critique Sports," Artnet News, March 16, 2025

One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series)
1985

glass, steel, sodium chloride reagent, distilled water, and one basketball
64 3/4 x 30 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
164.5 x 78.1 x 33.7 cm

Edition of 2 

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

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

    New York, C&M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, April 7 - June 5, 2004 (edition 1)

    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 (edition 2)

    Waterbury, Mattatuck Museum, Jeff Koons: One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank, July 14, 2019 – January 5, 2020 (edition 1)

    Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art Museum, To the Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art, February 1 – June 7, 2020

  • Walter Robinson, "'The New Capital' at White Columns," Art in America, April 1985, p. 208

    Frank Owen, "Neo Geo is its name Neo Geo: 1960s Pop Art Re-Invents Itself in the Form of Late 1980s Consumer Kitsch," i-D Magazine, February 1986 (color ill. p. 91)

    "Corporate Culture." LA Weekly, August 15, 1986 (color ill.)

    Alan Jones, "Jeff Koons: Et qui libre," Galeries Magazine, no. 15 (October 1986), p. 95 (color ill. p. 95)

    Europa/Amerika: Die Geschichte einer kunstlerischen Faszination seit 1940, exh. cat (Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 1986), p. 316 (ill. p. 316, installation)

    Kay Larson, "Good Neighbors,” New York Magazine 20, no. 17 (April 27, 1987) (ill. p. 122)

    Gary Indiana, "Another Review of the Whitney," Village Voice, April 28, 1987 (color ill. p. 87)

    Paul Taylor, "My Art Belongs to Dada," The Observer (London), September 6, 1987, pp. 36-37 (color ill. pp.36-37)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Radical Consumption and the New Poverty," New Observations 51 (October 1987), p.12 (il. P. 12)

    Allan Schwartzman, "Corporate Culture: The Yippie-Yuppie Artist," Manhattan Inc., no. 12 (December 1987) (color ill. p. 139)

    1987 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987) (color ill. p. 69)

    NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, ed. Cameron, exh. cat. (Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1987, p. 132 (color ill. p. 132)

    John Russel, "At the Saatchi Collection, a Thin Show of 'NY Art,'" The New York Times, January 3, 1988, (ill. p. H27)

    1987 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987) (color ill. p. 69)

    Morgan Stuart, "School of Athens,” Artscribe, March/April 1988, p. 9 (ill. p. 9)

    Roberta Smith. "Investigating the Ordinary" and Rituals of Consumption," Art in America, May 1988, p. 165 (color ill. p. 165)

    Donald Kuspit, "The Opera is Over," Artscribe International (UK), September/October 1988 (color ill.)

    Estelle Schwarz, "Advertising, Advertising: Some cases in point," Artscribe (London), September/October 1988, pp. 46, 47 (color ill. p. 46)

    Cultural Geometry, ed. by Jeffrey Deitch, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 1988) (color ill. p. 21)

    I. Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988), pp. 17, 39 (color ill. cover; ill. p. 17, pl. 9; ill. p. 40, detail)

    Richard Lacayo, "Artist Jeff Koons Makes, and Earns, Giant Figures," People Magazine 31, no. 18 (May 8, 1989) (ill. p. 128)

    Andrew Renton, “Super Star,” Blitz Magazine, no. 85 (January 1990), p. 55 (color ill.)

    Dodie Kazanjian, "Koons Crazy," Vogue, August 1990, pp. 340, 341, 384 (color ill. p. 341)

    Paul Taylor, "My art belongs to Dada," Time Out London, September 9, 1987, p. 36 (color ill. p. 36)

    Weitersehen 1980-1990, exh. cat. (Museum Haus Lange, Museum Haus Esters, 1990), pp. 42, 47 (color ill. p. 43, installation)

    "Hommage An Armani Koons – Werk," Elle Germany, 1991, p.178

    Peter Flessig, "Kitschy, Kitschy Koons," City Limits, March 12-19, 1992, p. 17

    Jeff Koons, ed. Angelika Muthesius (Köln: Taschen, 1992), pp. 55, 165, 166 (color ill. p. 57; color ill. p. 64)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 154

    Gudrun Inboden and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk and Denmark: Aarhus Kustmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1993), pp. 18, 98 (color ill. p. 19)

    Jeffrey Deitch and Stuart Morgan, Everything That's Interesting Is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Distributed Art Pub Inc, 1996), pp.12, 14 (color ill.)

    Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi, "Jeff Koons: Ten Years Later," Flash Art (Milan) 30, no. 195 (Summer 1997), p. 104

    Rainald Goetz, Jeff Koons, Schaupielhaus Programmhefte (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1999) (color ill. p. 37, detail)

    Shortcuts from the Dakis Joannou Collection, exh. cat. (The Nicosia Municpal Arts Centre, Assoicated with the Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art;  Greece: DESTE Foundation for Contemporary, 2002), pp. 10, 76 (color ill. p. 14, Cultural Geometry installation; color ill. p. 21 Eliminating the Atlantic installation; color ill. p. 39 Everything that is interesting is ... new installation; color ill. p. 42, detail; color ill. p. 44; color ill. pp. 56-7; color ill. p. 60, detail, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration 1979-1999 installation)

    Jeff Koons von Rainald Goetz (Basel: Theater Basel, 2002) (color ill. p. 27)

    David Rimanelli, "Time Capsules 1980-1985," Artforum 41, no. 7 (March 2003) (color ill. p. 134, Equilibrium at International with Monument installation)

    Katy Siegel, "Jeff Koons talks to Katy Siegel," Artforum, March 2003 (color ill. p. 134, Equilibrium at International with Monument installation)

    Thomas Crow, “Marx to Sharks,” Artforum, April 2003, p. 48

    Jeff Koons: Pictures 1980-2002 Kunsthaus Bielefeld, ed. Thomas Kellein, exh. cat. (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003) (color ill. p. 19, International with Monument Gallery installation)

    Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Naples: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli and Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 36 (color ill. p. 36)

    Rainer Crone, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M, 2004), pp. 44, 81 (color ill. pl. 12, pp. 45, 81)

    Monument to Now, ed. by Jeffrey Deitch, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2004), p. 203 (color ill. p. 203)

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

    Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Jeff Koons: Supercontemporanea Series, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (Verona: Monsadori Printing, 2006), p. 13 (color ill. p. 13)

    Camilla Long, “Loony Koons,” Tatler, vol. 3, no. 5 (May 2007)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 144 (color ill. p. 144)

    Judicael Lavrador, "Jeff Koons un Baroque en Trompe-l'oeil," in Qu'est-ce que la Sculpture Aujourd'hui? ed. Caroline Cros (Paris: Beaux Arts/ TTM Editions, October 2008), p. 116

    Richard Lacayo, "Show Me the Bunny: As he Closes in on 60, Jeff Koons finally gets his really big show," TimeJuly 2009, p. 93 (color ill. p. 93)

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

    Serena Sutcliffe, The Art of The Vintage (London: Jaqui Small, 2009), p. 331 (color ill. p. 331)

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

    Steel Stillman, "The Feature Story," Art in America (December 2010) (color ill. back cover, p. 59, Feature's Chicago installation)

    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), pp. 5, 11, 16, 18, 78, 202, all as "One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank" (color ill. p. 79)

    Skin Fruit: A View of a Collection Curated by Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2010) (color ill.)

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), cover, p.15 (color ill. cover)

    Ken Johnson, Are You Experienced?: How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art  (New York, Prestel, 2011), p. 194 (color ill. p. 194) 

    Jeff Koons. Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Basel: Hatje Cantz, 2012), p.177 (color ill. p. 177)

    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

    Luther Blisset, “Sept moments-clefs dans une vie d’artiste,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, pp. 8-9 (color ill. pp. 8-9, International with Monument installation)

    Gianni Jetzer, Leah Pires, Bob Nickas, Brand New: Art & Commodity in the 1980s, exh. cat. (New York: Rizzoli, 2018) (color ill. p. 119)

    Philip Hensher, "'It is blazingly hideous. I rather recommend it.' The Ashmolean's Jeff Koons show is worth a visit," Daily Mail (Uk), February 9, 2019, (color ill) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-6674515/It-blazingly-hideous-recommend-Ashmoleans-Jeff-Koons-worth-visit.html

    Will Gompertz, "Will Gompertz reviews Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford," BBC News (England), February 9, 2019 (color ill.) https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47152778

    An Album: Lietta & Dakis Joannou, Home Installations 1998-2019 (Athens: Deste, 2019) pp. 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 62, 98, 99, 101, 104, 110 (color ill., all pages)

    Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare, Desire and the Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even, exh. cat. (London: Phaidon, 2019), title p. 31, (color ill. p. 32)

    Beaux Arts - Jeff Koons Mucem, Oeuvres de la Collection Pinault, Beaux Arts Éditions, May 2021, p. 46, (color ill. p. 15)

    Mark Westall, "New Jeff Koons exhibition 'Shine' to open in the autumn," FAD Magazine (UK), July 14, 2021 https://fadmagazine.com/2021/07/14/new-jeff-koons-exhibition-shine-to-open-in-the-autumn/

    Jeff Koons. Lost in America, ed. Massimiliano Gioni, exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2021), p. 42, (color ill. p. 43)

    Raffaele Quattrone, "Masterpiece Episode 3 (Beecroft - Koons)," Masterpiece, April 28, 2024

Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Wilson Aggressor, Wilson Supershot, Spalding Dr. J Silver Series)
1985

glass, steel, distilled water, and three basketballs 
60 1/2 x 48 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
153.7 x 123.8 x 33.7 cm

Edition of 2

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

  • Joshua Dector, "New Ground," Arts Magazine 60, no. 4 (December 1985), p. 123 (ill. p. 123)

    Norma Lifton, "Jeff Koons," New Art Examiner, December 1985 (ill. p. 50)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Spiritual America," CEPA Quarterly 1, no. 3, Spring 1986, p. 6 (ill. p. 6

    Paul Bob, "Postmodern Pop," Esquire 106, no. 3 (September 1986), p. 252 (color ill. p. 252)

    Jeanne Siegal, "Jeff Koons: Unachievable States of Being," Arts Magazine 61, no. 2 (October 1986), p. 71 (color ill. p. 71)

    Douglas C. McGill, "Helping the Rich Buy Art," The New York Times, April 22, 1987, p. C19 (ill. p. C19)

    Christoper Flacke, "Held in Suspense," Art & Antiques, Summer 1987, p. 25 (ill. p. 25)

    Howard N. Fox, Avant-Garde in the Eighties, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987), p. 15

    Ann Landi, "Corporate Culture: Advice and Dissent," Manhattan Inc. 5, no. 1 (January 1988), p. 105

    Stephen Luecking, "Jeff Koons: Museum of Contemporary Art," New Art Examiner 16, no. 3 (November

    People Magazine, June 1999, pp. 67-68

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), pp. 60, 155 (color ill. p. 61, as "Three Ball 50/50 Tank")

    John R. Lane (foreword), John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau (exhibition history and bibliography), Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), pp. 15, 20, 59, 131 (color ill. p. 59, pl. 16)

    Jeff Koons, eds. Jens Erik Sørensoen and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Denmark: Aarhaus Kunstmuseum, 1993), p. 31 (color ill. p. 31, pl. 16)

    Jens Erik Sørenson, John Peter Nilsson, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jeff Koons Retrospectiv, eds. Jens Erik Sørenson and Anders Kold, exh. cat. (Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1993), pp. 31, 111 (color ill. p. 31)

    Arthur Lubow, "Tough Lady," Worth, October 1995, pp. 119, 122 (ill. p. 122, Dannheisser's Tribeca installation)

    Margaret Steele and Cindy Estes, The Art of Shapes for Children and Adults (Los Angeles: The MOCA Store, 1997) (color ill. p. 3; color ill. p. 4, detail of Dr. J Silver series basketball)

    Robert Storr and Kurt Varnedoe, On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection, exh. cat. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, H.N. Abrams, 1997) (color ill. p. 79)

    Joshua Siegel, Kirk Varnedoe and Paola Antonelli, "Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980," (New York: H.N Abrams, The Museum of Modern Art, 2000) (color ill. p. 129)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 39 (color ill. p. 39)

    Rainer Crone, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M, 2004), pp. 24, 81 (color ill. pl. 3, pp. 25, 81)

    Rosa Martinez, Çekim Merkezi / Centre of Gravity, exh. cat. (Istanbul: Istanbul Museum of Art, 2005), pp. 176, 178-79 (color ill. p. 177)

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

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007) (color ill. p. 178)

    "Some favourite examples of contemporary artist who have put their Warhol on," The Saatchi Gallery Magazine Art&Music 3 (Autumn 2008) (color ill. p. 26)

    Steel Stillman, "The Feature Story," Art in America (December 2010) (color ill. back cover; color ill. p. 59, Feature's Chicago installation)

    David W. Galenson, "Precocious Prodigies and Late Bloomers," The Art Economist 1, no. 2 (July 2011), p. 73 (color ill. p. 72)

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014) (color ill. p. 66)

    The Broad Collection, ed. Joanne Heyler with Ed Schad and Chelsea Beck (Los Angeles: The Broad, Delmonico Books an imprint of Prestel Publishing, 2015), pp. 10, 21, (color ill. p. 86)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015) p. 27 (color ill. p. 26)

    Paul Bob, "Postmodern Pop," Esquire, September 1996, p. 252 (color ill. p. 252)

    The Broad Foundations Entrepreneurship for the Public Good 2015-2016 (Los Angeles: The Broad Art Foundations, 2016) (color ill. p. 109)

    Edward Lucie-Smith, "Jeff Koons - The Art of Not Quite Now," Artlyst, May 20, 2016 (color ill.)

    Jérémie Nassir, When Basketball Inspires (Paris: Trajectoire Studio 2019) (color ill. p. 34)

    Carlos Rolón, Dan Peterson and John Dennis, Common Practice- Basketball & Contemporary Art (Milan, Italy: Skira, 2020), p. 66: (color ill. p. 66)

    Thea B. Van Oosten, Properties of Plastics: A Guide for Conservators (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2022) (color ill. p. 90)

Two Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series)
1985

glass, steel, sodium chloride reagent, distilled water, and two basketballs 
62 3/4 x 36 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
159.4 x 93.3 x 33.7 cm

Edition of 2 

  • New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    Aspen Art Museum, Warhol/Koons/Hirst: Cult and Culture, Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, August – September 2001 (edition 2)

    New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Minimalism & Beyond, September 14 – October 2, 2017

  • Gary Indiana, "Jeff Koons at International with Monument," Art in America 73, no. 11 (November 1985), (ill. p. 162)

    "Album: Four Artists, Jay Gorney Modern Art, January 4-30," Arts Magazine 60, no. 5 (January 1986) (ill. p. 121)

    Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Spiritual America," CEPA Quarterly 1, no. 3 (Spring 1986), p. 6 (ill. p. 6)

    Hal Foster, "The Future of an Illusion, or The Contemporary Artist as Cargo Cultist," in Endgame, Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986) (ill. p. 97)

    Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 1992, fig. 2, p. 54 (color ill.)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 156

    Jeff Koons, ed John Caldwell (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), plate 15, (color ill.)

    Michael Corris, "Jeff Koons in the Heart of Nowhere," Art + Text, May 1993, p. 49

    Alexandra Koroxenidis, "Commodity culture and sybolism," Kathimerini, Monday, December 20, 1999, p. 8

    Warhol/Koons/Hirst: Cult and Culture. Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection at the Aspen Art Museum, exh. cat., ed. Dean Sobel (Aspen: Aspen Art Museum, 2001), pp. 33, 66 (color ill. p. 33/plate 14)

    David Rimanelli, "Time Capsules 1980-1985," Artforum 41, no. 7 (March 2003) (color ill. p. 134, Equilibrium at International with Monument installation)

    Jeff Koons. Naples: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli and Electa Napoli, 2003 [Texts by Eduardo Cicelyn and Mario Codognato], p. 39 (color ill. p. 39)

    Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M Arts, 2004), p.12

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

    Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, ed. Marc Glimcher (New York: Pace Wildenstein, 2005), pp. 104, 183 (color ill. p. 105)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2008), p. 164 (color ill. p. 164)

    John Caldwell, This is About Who We Are: The Collected Writings of John Caldwell, ed. by Thea Westreich (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 2008), p. 183

    Sam Keller, Dorothea Vischer, Raphael Bouvier, and Gunther Vogt, Jeff Koons: Fondation Beyeler, exh. cat. (Otsfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012), p. 177 (color ill. p. 177)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 37 (color ill. p. 36)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 37 (color ill. p. 36)

    Minimalism & Beyond, exh. cat. (New York, Mnuchin Gallery, 2017) (ill.)

    Udo Kittlemann, Sammlung Marx: 40 Werke (Berlin: Edition Cantz, 2019), p.112 (color ill. p. 112)

    Mongomeri, "Arte Upcycling en el siglo XXI, Nicole McLaughlin y su éxito en Instagram," Neo2 (Spain), February 6, 2021 (color ill.) https://www.neo2.com/arte-upcycling-nicole-mclaughlin/

    Erika Verzutti: The Indiscipline of Sculpture (São Paulo, Brazil: Museum of Art of São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2021), p. 219 (color ill. p. 219)

    "30 Years After Jeff Koons Was Skewered on ’60 Minutes’, He Returned to the Show for a Far More Flattering Interview With Anderson Cooper," Artnet News, May 26, 2023 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/30-years-after-jeff-koons-was-skewered-on-60-minutes-he-returned-to-the-show-for-a-far-more-flattering-interview-with-anderson-cooper-2310315

Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Dr. J Silver Series)
1985

glass, steel, distilled water, sodium chloride reagent, and three basketballs
60 1/2 x 48 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
153.7 x 123.8 x 33.7 cm

Edition of 2

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

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pandora's Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, June 18 – October 16, 2011 (edition 2)

    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)

    New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 27 – October 19, 2014 (edition 2)

    Paris, The Centre Pompidou, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, November 26, 2014 – April 27, 2015 (edition 2)

    Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, June 9 – September 27, 2015 (edition 2)

    Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Heaven and Earth: Alexander Calder and Jeff Koons, October 21, 2017 – December 16, 2018 (edition 2)

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

    Doha, Qatar Museums Al Riwaq Gallery, Jeff Koons: Lost in America, November 21, 2021 – March 31, 2022 (edition 1)

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Before Tomorrow – Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years, June 22 – October 8, 2023 (edition 1)

  • Robert Wright, "Virtual Reality." ZG (London), March 1986, p. 59 (color ill. p. 59)

    Albig Jorg-Uwe, "Jeff Koons, ein Prophet der inneren Leere," Art Das Kunstmagazine, no. 12 (December 1992), p. 54

    Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 1992, p. 59 (color ill. p. 59)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 155

    Michael Archer, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (London: Afterall Books, 2011), pp. 20-21 (color ill. pp. 20-21)

    "National Galleries of Scotland to unveil collection of Jeff Koons' works in Artist Rooms," The List, January 3, 2011 https://www.list.co.uk/article/31708-national-galleries-of-scotland-to-unveil-collection-of-jeff-koons-works-in-artist-rooms/

    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. 9, 13

    Luther Blissett, “Les obsessions majeures de Koons,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, p. 28 

    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. 69, 219, 286 (color ill. p. 69, pl. 30)

    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. 298

    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. 73, 231, 297 (color ill. p. 73, pl. 30)

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 41 (color ill. p. 41)

    B. David Zarley, "The Missionary's Position: In Defense of Jeff Koons," Newcity Art, November 30, 2017 (color ill.) https://art.newcity.com/2017/11/30/the-missionarys-position-in-defense-of-jeff-koons/

    Jeff Koons: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, ed. Gunnar B. Kvaran, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet, 2018) pp. 15, 25 (color ill. p. 25)

    "What is Neo-Geo and How Is Jeff Koons Involved in the Movement?," Artspace, September 28, 2019 https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/book_report/what-is-neo-geo-and-how-is-jeff-koons-involved-in-the-movement-56262 (color ill.)

    Kurt Brondo, 303 Gallery: 35 Years, exh. cat.(New York: 303inprint, 2019) (color ill. p. 18)

    Andrea Vignati, "Da Basquiat agli affreschi veneziani. L’arte tra palla e canestro, il basket e la creazione artistica," Arts Life (Italy), February 6, 2021 (color ill.) https://artslife.com/2021/02/06/basquiat-street-art-arte-basket/

    Jeff Koons. Lost in America, ed. Massimiliano Gioni, exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2021), p. 46, (color ill. p. 47) "David Beckham Smits Jeff Koons' Inflatable Statue," Detik Hot (Indonesia), November 22, 2021 (color ill. by Cindy Ord) https://hot.detik.com/culture/d-5822123/david-beckham-kepincut-patung-tiup-jeff-koons

    Richard Whiddington, "Game On! 8 Contemporary Artworks That Challenge, Celebrate, and Critique Sports," Artnet News, March 16, 2025 (color ill.)

Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Two Dr. J Silver Series, Wilson Supershot)
1985

glass, steel, sodium chloride reagent, distilled water, and three basketballs 
60 1/2 x 48 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
153.7 x 123.8 x 33.7 cm

Edition of 2 

  • London, NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, London, 1987

    Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons: Retrospective, September 4 – December 12, 2004; Helsinki City Art Museum, January 28 – April 10, 2005 (edition 1)

    Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, May 1, 2009 – April 11, 2010 (edition 2)

    Mexico City, Museo Jumex, The Natural Order of Things, March 11 –  May 8, 2016 (edition 1)

    Mexico City, Museo Jumex, Everything Will Become Lighter, November 18, 2023 – February 11, 2024 (edition 1)

  • Hal Foster, "The Future of an Illusion, or The Contemporary Artist as Cargo Cultist," in Endgame, Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986), p. 115

    Dan Cameron, NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, exh. cat. (Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1987), p.133 (color ill. p. 133)

    I. Michael Danoff, Jeff Koons, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1988), pp. 17, 39 (ill. p. 17, pl. 10

    James Hall, "Neo-Geo's Bachelor Artists," Art International 9, (Winter 1989), p. 32 (color ill., p. 32, installation view, photo credit to Saatchi Collection)

    Horn of Plenty: Sixteen Artists from NYC, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1989), p. 100 (color ill. p. 13

    Neal Benezra, "Gerald S. Elliott," Galeries Magazine International Edition, no. 37 (June/July 1990), p. 122 (color ill., installation image in Gerarld Elliott collection)

    Daniel Pinchbeck, "Kitsch and Tell," Connoisseur 221, no. 958 (November 1991) (color ill. p. 36

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 155

    Jeff Koons: 30 Postcards (Cologne: Taschen, 1992) (color ill.)

    Michael Lipton and Sue Carswell, "Rouges' Gallery," People Magazine, November 29, 1993

    TateReport, Tate Gallery Biennial Report 1994-96 (London: Tate Gallery, 1996)

    Homi K. Bhabha, "Making a Difference on the Legacy of the Culture Wars," Artforum 41, no. 8 (April 2003), p. 73

    Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, ed. by Marit Woltmann, exh. cat. (Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2004), pp. 30, 31, 138, 146 (color ill. p. 30, detail; color ill. p. 31; color ill. p. 138, detail)

    Rosa Martinez, Çekim Merkezi / Centre of Gravity, exh. cat. (Istanbul: Istanbul Museum of Art, 2005) (color ill. p. 177)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 179 (color ill. p. 179)

    Jeff Koons, ed. Francesco Bonami, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 35, 41, 113 (color ill. pp.34-35, detail; color ill. p. 40)

    Graham Bader, "Jeff Koons," Artforum, September 2008 (color ill. p. 451)

    Francis Naumann, Jeff Koons: New Paintings, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (Beverly Hills: Gagosian Gallery, 2010), pp. 3, 4 (color ill. p. 4)

    "25 Years at the Saatchi Gallery; 25 Years: Some of the 300 Artists Exhibited," Artforum XLIX, no. 6 (February 2011), p. 100

    "25 Years at the Saatchi Gallery," ArtReview 49 (February 2011), pp. 26-27 (color ill. p. 27, Saatchi Gallery installation view)

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

    Kevin West, "Art Nuevo," W Magazine, December 2013 (color il. p.157)

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014), (color ill. p. 66)

    Post Pop: East meets West, exh. cat. (London: Saatchi Gallery, 2014) (color ill. p. 150)

    Jeff Koons, “The Words,” ed. Michael Polsinelli and Sasha Burkhanova, Garage Magazine (London), Fall/Winter 2014 (color ill. p. 92)

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

    Julie Champion and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, Jeff Koons: La Rétrospective Le Portfolio de L'Exposition/The Retrospective The Portfolio of the Exhibition, ed. Julie Champion (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2015), p. 41 (color ill. p. 41)

    Helen Schwab, Robin M. Wright, and Neal David Benezra, The Campaign for Art, Gift for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, exh. cat. (San Francisco: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2016) (color ill. p. 262)

    Julie Belcove, "Frieze New York pays tribute to art dealer Hudson," Financial Times, April 27, 2018 https://www.ft.com/content/13fb8c94-46db-11e8-8c77-ff51caedcde6

    "Heaven and Earth: Alexander Calder and Jeff Koons,” Gagosian, September 2018 (color ill. p. 133)

    "What is Neo-Geo and How Is Jeff Koons Involved in the Movement?," Artspace, September 28, 2019 https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/book_report/what-is-neo-geo-and-how-is-jeff-koons-involved-in-the-movement-56262 (color ill.)

    Kurt Brondo, 303 Gallery: 35 Years, exh. cat.(New York: 303inprint, 2019) (color ill. p. 18)

    Andrea Vignati, "Da Basquiat agli affreschi veneziani. L’arte tra palla e canestro, il basket e la creazione artistica," Arts Life (Italy), February 6, 2021 (color ill.) https://artslife.com/2021/02/06/basquiat-street-art-arte-basket/

    "Jeff Koons – Exploring the Life and Art of Jeff Koons," Art in Context, June 1, 2023 (color ill.) https://artincontext.org/jeff-koons/

    Kate Connolly, "Beyond Munch: Norwegian art shares spotlight with Bubbles the chimp in Oslo," The Guardian, June 24, 2023 (color ill.) https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jun/24/munch-norwegian-art-oslo-astrup-fearnley-museum

    Arun Kakar, "How These 5 Saatchi Gallery Exhibitions Changed the British Art World," Artsy, September 11, 2024, pp. 5-6 p. 6 (NY Art Now installation view)

    Lisa Phillips, Colección Jumex Todo Se Vuelve Más Ligero (Everything Gets Lighter), exh. cat. (Mexico: Fundación Jumex, A.C., 2023), pp. 58, 129, 145, 146 (color ill. p. 58)

Two Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series, Wilson Aggressor)
1985

glass, steel, distilled water, and two basketballs 
62 3/4 x 36 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches 
159.4 x 93.3 x 33.7 cm

Edition of 2 

  • New York, International With Monument Gallery, Equilibrium, May 4 – June 2, 1985

    San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Jeff Koons, December 10, 1992 - October 3, 1993 (edition 1)

    Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Koons Retrospektiv, November 28, 1992 – January 3, 1993; Denmark, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, January 22 – February 28, 1993; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, March 12 – April 18, 1993 (edition 2)

  • Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Spiritual America," CEPA Quarterly 1, no. 3 (Spring 1986), p. 6 (ill. p. 6)

    Klaus Kertess, "Naming Names, Bomb Magazine, Summer 1986 (ill. p. 57)

    "Two Sculptures by Jeff Koons," Bomb Magazine, July 1, 1986 (ill.)https://bombmagazine.org/articles/two-sculptures-7/

    John Caldwell and Michael Newman, Carnegie International - 1988, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel, 1988), p. 90

    Angelika Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne 1992, fig. 2, p. 54 (color ill.)

    The Jeff Koons Handbook (London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1992), p. 156

    John R. Lane (foreword), John Caldwell, Jim Lewis, Daniela Salvioni, and Brian Wallis, Eugenie Candau (exhibition history and bibliography), Jeff Koons: Retrospective SFMOMA, ed. Fronia W. Simpson, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1992), pp. 15, 20, 58 (color ill. p. 58, pl. 15)

    "This Modern World," San Francisco Chronicle, February 26, 1993 (ill.)

    Alberto Fiz, "La vita è un paradiso di... Bugie," Class (Italy), February 2, 1994

    David Rimanelli, "Time Capsules 1980-1985," Artforum, March 2003, pp. 11, 100-134 (color ill. p. 134, Equilibrium at International with Monument installation)

    Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Elena Guena, Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, exh. cat. (Naples: Electa Napoli, 2003), p. 38 (color ill. p. 39)

    Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, exh. cat. (New York: C&M Arts, 2004), p.12

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

    Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, ed. Marc Glimcher (New York: Pace Wildenstein, 2005), pp. 104, 183 (color ill. p. 105)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 164 (color ill. p. 164)Steel Stillman, "The Feature Story," Art in America (December 2010), pp. 57-62 https://d3zr9vspdnjxi.cloudfront.net/sites/steelst1/sup/810180-Hudson-in-AiA-2.pdf

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Entretiens avec Norman Rosenthal (London: Flammarion, 2014), p. 37 (color ill. p. 36)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 37 (color ill. p. 36)

    Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch/Koons/Ray, ed. by Jack Bankowsky, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2014) (color ill. p. 67)

    Robert Storr, Interviews on Art (London: HENI Publishing, 2017) (color ill. p. 388)

    Udo Kittlemann, Sammlung Marx: 40 Werke (Berlin: Edition Cantz, 2019), p.112 (color ill. p. 112)

    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/

Encased - One Row
(Spalding Magic Johnson Basketball, Wilson Aggressor 285 Basketball, Spalding Scottie Pippen Basketball, Spalding Shaq Attaq Basketball, Wilson Aggressor 285 Basketball, Franklin 6036 Soccer Ball)
1983–1993

glass, plastic, steel, basketballs, and soccer ball
80 x 17 3/8 x 17 inches
203.2 x 44.1 x 43.2 cm

  • Los Angeles, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, 1993

    London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Jeff Koons: Encased Works, March 13 – April 23, 1998

  • Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 162 (color ill. p. 162)

    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. 73 (color ill. p. 73, fig. 7, Anthony d'Offay 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. 81 (ill. p. 81, fig. 7, Anthony d'Offay 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. 77 (ill. p. 77, fig. 7, Anthony d'Offay Gallery installation)

    Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Koons (Cologne: Taschen, 2015), p. 30 (color ill. p. 30)

Encased - Two Rows
(12 Wilson Michael Jordan Basketballs)
1983–1993/1998

glass, plastic, steel, and basketballs
80 x 29 7/8 x 17 1/8 inches
203.2 x 75.9 x 43.5 cm

  • London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Jeff Koons: Encased Works, March 13 – April 23, 1998

  • Jeff Koons, ed. Hans Werner Holzwarth (Cologne: Taschen, 2007), p. 163 (color ill. p. 163)

    Francis Naumann, Jeff Koons: New Paintings, ed. Rebecca Sternthal, exh. cat. (Beverly Hills: Gagosian Gallery, 2010), pp. 3, as 'fig. 7,' 5 (color ill. p. 5, fig. 7)

    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. 73 (color ill. p. 73, fig. 7, Anthony d'Offay 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. 81 (ill. p. 81, fig. 7, Anthony d'Offay 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. 77 (ill. p. 77, fig. 7, Anthony d'Offay Gallery installation)

Encased - Three Rows
(6 Wilson Jet Basketballs, 6 Wilson Michael Jordan Basketballs, 6 Spalding Zi/O Basketballs)
1983–1993/1998

glass, plastic, steel, and basketballs
80 x 42 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches
203.2 x 108 x 43.8 cm

  • London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Jeff Koons: Encased Works, March 13 – April 23, 1998

  • Scott Reyburn, "Art Prices Return to Near Peak Level, Collector Rachofsky Says," Bloomberg, March 22, 2011, online

    Andrei Erofeev, "Post Pop as a World Art Language," in Post Pop: East meets West, exh. cat. (London: Saatchi Gallery, 2014), p. 151 (color ill. p. 151)

    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. 73 (color ill. p. 73, fig. 7, Anthony d'Offay 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. 81 (ill. p. 81, fig. 7, Anthony d'Offay 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. 77 (ill. p. 77, fig. 7, Anthony d'Offay Gallery installation)

Encased - Four Rows
(6 Wilson Michael Jordan Basketballs, 6 Wilson MVP Basketballs, 12 Spalding Zi/O Basketballs)
1983–1993 / 1998

glass, plastic, steel, and basketballs
80 x 55 x 17 3/8 inches
203.2 x 139.7 x 44.1 cm

  • London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Jeff Koons: Encased Works, March 13 – April 23, 1998

    Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, ARTIST ROOMS Jeff Koons, March 19 – July 3, 2011

  • “Jeff Koons Resource Pack,” exh. supplement, ARTIST ROOMS: Jeff Koons, Brighton Museum and Gallery (Brighton, England, 2013), p. 9 (color ill. p. 9)

    "Jeff Koons: Banality, Decadence and Easyfun," Tate (UK), 2009 https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jeff-koons-2368/jeff-koons-banality-decadence-and-easyfun

    Andrei Erofeev, "Post Pop as a World Art Language," in Post Pop: East meets West, exh. cat. (London: Saatchi Gallery, 2014), p. 151 (color ill. p. 151)

    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. 73 (color ill. p. 73, fig. 7, Anthony d'Offay Gallery installation)

    Artist Rooms, The First Five Years (London: Tate Publishing, 2015) (color ill. p. 103)

    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. 81 (ill. p. 81, fig. 7, Anthony d'Offay 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. 77 (ill. p. 77, fig. 7, Anthony d'Offay Gallery installation)

    Jérémie Nassir, When Basketball Inspires (Paris: Trajectoire Studio 2019), pp. 32-35 (color ill.; color ill., p. 35)

Encased - Five Rows
(6 Spalding Scottie Pippen Basketballs, 6 Spalding Shaq Attaq Basketballs, 6 Wilson Supershot Basketballs, 6 Wilson Supershot Basketballs, 6 Franklin 6034 Soccerballs)
1983–1993

glass, plastic, steel, basketballs, and soccerballs
80 x 67 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches 
203.2 x 171.5 x 44.5 cm

  • Santa Monica, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Anniversary Exhibition, Part III, September 15 – October 16, 1993

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

    London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Jeff Koons: Encased Works, March 13 – April 23, 1998

    Donaueschingen, Furstenberg Sammlngen, Ahead of the 21st Century: The Pisces Collection, June 2002 – October 2004

  • Hans Ulrich Obrist, Koons, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, 1997), pp. 20, 82 (color ill. p. 21) all as "Encased - Five Rows"

    France Huser, "Jeff Koons: L'Irrévérencieux," (text in French) L'Officiel (Paris), no. 820 (November 1997), (color ill. p. 156)

    Nicolas Bourriaud, "Jeff Koons Ingenieur du desir," (Text in French) Beaux Arts (France), September 1997, p. 45 (color ill. p. 45)

    Ahead of the 21st Century: The Pisces Collection, exh. cat. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002) (color ill. p. 109)

    Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons - Popeye Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, 2010), (color ill. p. 43, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont installation)

    Jeff Koons and Norman Rosenthal, Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014), p. 271 (color ill. p. 271)

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