TWO PALMS
Founded by David Lasry in New York City in 1994, Two Palms works with some of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists to publish prints and sculpture multiples in its studio and showroom in SoHo. Two Palms upends codified notions of what a print could or should be by utilizing a constantly expanding roster of tools and technologies while maintaining an expertise in traditional techniques such as etching, silkscreen, and monotype. Two Palms seeks to expand and nurture the practices of the artists with whom we work by creating a collaborative studio environment and bringing their work to a wide audience. Jeff Koons has been working with Two Palms since 2016.
Two Palms is a regular participant in The Armory Show, IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Hong Kong, and KIAF Seoul. Two Palms’ works have been acquired by numerous institutions including The British Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Modern Museum of Art, New York; The Broad Art Museum, Los Angeles; The Tate Modern Art Gallery; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Antiquity Prints
In his Antiquity series, Jeff Koons revisits themes of eros, libido, fertility and feminine beauty as represented throughout the history of art. The series combines images that depict Greco-Roman sculptures as well as paintings of a more contemporary, photo-realist type of feminine beauty, like that of actress Gretchen Mol posing as the famous pinup Bettie Page.
The unifying image across the series is a seemingly child-like drawing of a sailboat under the sun passing between two hills, rendered here in foil-stamped copper. It is another example of Koons fondness for double entendres as the drawing can also be seen as the outline of Courbet’s voyeuristic painting L’Origine du monde. L’Origine du monde is a direct provocation of our reluctance to acknowledge and accept realistic depictions of our innermost desires.
Antiquity 1
2019
Archival pigment print with foil stamp on Innova rag paper
40 1/2 x 32 inches
102.9 x 81.3 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs
Printer: Two Palms
Antiquity 3
2019
Archival pigment print with foil stamp on Innova rag paper
38 1/2 x 50 inches
97.8 x 127 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs
Printer: Two Palms
Antiquity (Manet)
2019
Archival pigment print with foil stamp on Innova rag paper
40 1/2 x 32 inches
102.9 x 81.3 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs
Printer: Two Palms
Antiquity (Ariadne Titian Bacchus Popcorn)
2019
Archival pigment print with foil stamp on Innova rag paper
38 1/2 x 50 inches
97.8 x 127 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs
Printer: Two Palms
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Katy Diamond Hamer, "IFPDA PRINT FAIR TOP PICKS," Eyes Towards the Dove, October 27, 2019, online. https://eyes-towards-the-dove.com/2019/10/ifpda-print-fair-top-picks/
Angelica Villa, "Highlights from the2020 Armory Show," Artnews, March 2, 2020 (color ill., misidentified as Antiquity (Manet) in caption) https://www.artnews.com/gallery/art-news/photos/armory-show-2020-highlights-1202679547/
“【图集】2020年纽约军械库艺博会 ｜ 盘点 50 件精彩展品 (The Armory Art Fair in New York 2020 ｜ Inventory of 50 wonderful exhibits),” Art-Ba-Ba.com, March 10, 2020 (color ill.) http://www.art-ba-ba.com/main/main.art?threadId=195825&forumId=8
Vivienne Chow, "‘We Are Ready!’: Record Sales and Attendance at the KIAF Art Fair Are Stoking Hopes for Seoul as Asia’s Next Art Hub," Artnet, October 19, 2021 (color ill., Seoul installation, partial view)
Antiquity (Uli)
2019
Archival pigment print with foil stamp on Innova rag paper
38 1/2 x 50 inches
Edition of 20 plus 5 APS
Printer: Two Palms
Gazing Ball Prints
The Gazing Ball series takes as its point of departure the mirrored gazing ball, a popular yard ornament commonly found in the area around the artist’s childhood home in central Pennsylvania. For these editioned Gazing Ball works, Koons worked with the research lab at Corning to develop a custom-poured, optically perfect, one-millimeter thick circle of mirrored cobalt blue glass that is paired with a masterpiece from art history. This juxtaposition of art historical reference with the viewer’s reflection invites a dialogue about the meaning of time and how we transcend it.
Gazing Ball (de Vos Rape of Europa)
2018
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
36 3/8 x 46 1/4 x 2 inches
92.4 x 117.5 x 5.1 cm
Paper Dimensions:
35 3/16 x 45 inches, 89.3 x 114.3 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
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Nate Freeman, "5 Essential Tips for Collecting Prints," Artsy, August 17, 2018 (color ill.) https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-5-essential-tips-collecting-prints
Gazing Ball (El Greco Vision of Saint John)
2021
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
38 1/2 x 50 inches
Framed Dimensions:
42 7/8 x 37 5/16 x 2 inches
108. 9 x 94.8 x 5.1 cm
Image Dimensions:
41 3/16 x 36 5/16 inches
104.6 x 92.2 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
Gazing Ball (Fragonard Young Girl Playing with Her Dog)
2017
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
42 9/16 x 33 15/16 x 2 inches
108.1 x 86.2 x 5.1 cm
Paper Dimensions:
40 3/4 x 32 1/8 inches, 103.5 x 81.7 cm
Gazing Ball (Gauguin Delightful Land)
2017
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
42 5/16 x 33 15/16 x 2 inches
107.5 x 86.2 x 5.1 cm
Paper Dimensions:
40 1/2 x 32 1/8 inches, 102.9 x 81.6 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
Gazing Ball (Giotto The Kiss of Judas)
2021
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
40 3/4 x 39 7/8 x 2 inches
103.5 x 101.3 x 5.1 cm
Image Dimensions:
39 1/8 x 38 1/8 inches
99.4 x 96.8 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
Gazing Ball (Goltzius Hercules and Cacus)
2017
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
52 13/16 x 37 5/16 x 2 inches
134.1 x 94.8 x 5.1 cm
Paper Dimensions:
51 x 35 1/2 inches, 129.5 x 90.2 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
Gazing Ball (Klimt Kiss)
2019
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
38 15/16 x 38 1/16 x 2 inches
98.9 x 96.7 x 5.1 cm
Paper Dimensions:
37 11/16 x 36 13/16 inches
95.7 x 93.5 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
Gazing Ball (Manet Olympia)
2017
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
35 7/16 x 48 5/8 x 2 inches
90 x 123.5 x 5.1 cm
Paper Dimensions:
33 5/8 x 46 13/16 inches, 85.5 x 119 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
Gazing Ball (Manet Luncheon on the Grass)
2019
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
39 1/16 x 48 x 2 inches
99.2 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm
Paper Dimensions:
37 13/16 x 46 3/4 inches, 96.1 x 118.8 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
Gazing Ball (Monet Water Lilies)
2018
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
38 1/2 x 37 7/8 x 2 inches
97.8 x 96.2 x 5.1 cm
Paper Dimensions:
37 5/16 x 36 5/8 inches
94.8 x 93 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
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Roanoke, POP Power from Warhol to Koons, Masterworks from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Taubman Museum of Art, September 14, 2019 – March 9, 2020
Gazing Ball (Perugino Madonna and Child with Four Saints)
2017
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
43 3/4 x 33 15/16 x 2 inches
111.1 x 86.2 x 5.1 cm
Paper Dimensions:
42 x 32 3/16 inches
106.7 x 81.8 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
Gazing Ball (Picasso Couple)
2017
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
42 5/8 x 33 15/16 x 2 inches
108.3 x 86.2 x 5.1 cm
Paper Dimensions:
40 7/8 x 32 3/16 inches
103.8 x 81.8 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
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Davenport, Figge Art Museum, Pop Power from Warhol to Koons: Masterworks from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, June 25 – September 19, 2021
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Jonathan Turner, "Colorful Contemporary Art Pops Off Walls in New Exhibit at Davenport’s Figge Museum," Quad Cities, June 24, 2021 (color ill. at Davenport’s Figge Museum)
https://www.quadcities.com/articles/colorful-contemporary-art-pops-off-figge-walls-in-new-exhibit/
Gazing Ball (Rubens Tiger Hunt)
2017
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
40 5/16 x 49 5/8 x 2 inches
102.4 x 126 x 5.1 cm
Paper Dimensions:
38 5/8 x 47 13/16 inches, 98.1 x 121.4 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
Gazing Ball (Titian Pastoral Concert)
2021
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
37 15/16 x 44 11/16 x 2 inches
96.4 x 113.5 x 5.1 cm
Image Dimensions:
36 1/4 x 42 15/16 inches
92.1 x 109.1 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
Gazing Ball (Turner Ancient Rome)
2021
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
34 15/16 x 44 1/16 x 2 inches
88.7 x 111.9 x 5.1 cm
Image Dimensions:
33 1/4 x 42 7/16 inches
84.5 x 107.8 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
Printer: Two Palms
Gazing Ball (van Gogh Wheatfield with Cypresses)
2017
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper, glass
Framed Dimensions:
35 3/8 x 42 3/16 x 2 inches
89.9 x 107.2 x 5.1 cm
Paper Dimensions:
33 5/8 x 40 7/16 inches
85.4 x 102.7 cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT
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Reno, Nevada Museum of Art, The World Stage: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, March 14 – May 24, 2020
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Ella Huzenis, "Bidding from Bed with Sotheby’s," Interview Magazine, September 22, 2020 (color ill. Sotheby's New York) https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/bidding-from-bed-sothebys-choice-works
Gazing Ball (da Vinci Mona Lisa)
2016
Archival pigment print on Innova rag paper with acrylic disc
Framed Dimensions:
41 7/8 x 28 7/8 x 2 1/16 inches
106.4 x 73.3 x 5.2 cm
Paper Dimensions:
40 11/16 x 27 3/4 inches, 103.3 x 70.5 cm
Edition 1 of 40 plus 10 APs, 5 PPs, 1 HC
Printer: Two Palms
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New York, Gagosian Gallery, Art for Hillary Auction. In support of the Hillary Action Fund, September 12, 2016
Roanoke, Taubman Museum of Art, POP Power from Warhol to Koons, Masterworks from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, September 14, 2019 – March 9, 2020 -
Lizzie Edmonds, "Anne Hathaway and Sienna Miller show support for Hillary Clinton at star-studded benefit," Evening Standard, October 18, 2016 (color ill.)Item description
THE SKATEROOM
Not many modern-day artists carry a cult status and global prominence quite like that of Jeff Koons. His star has been burning bright for almost half a century, introducing audiences to new ways of seeing, not just art, but the entire world around them.
On the outside playfully imaginative, Koons’ works are a vessel for grand existentialist ideas. Through everyday objects and pop culture insignia, he comments on consumerism, aesthetics and the human experience. The Skateroom is proud to reunite with the American genius for the second time in a brand new limited skateboard art collection.
On Being Alive
The editions each depict a classic artwork from Jeff KOONS’ masterful oeuvre. The New Shelton Wet/Dry Doubledecker Skateboard presents an encased vacuum cleaner sculpture from the artist’s The New series. These common household objects may be objects and yet they are “breathing”. It ties to the philosophies of both Kierkegaard and Sartre, exploring the duality of human nature, ethics, psychoanalysis and the link between artist and man.
In Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. JK Silver Series, Wilson Supershot) Skateboard, KOONS explores many of the same themes. The installation showcased on the triptych included three basketballs floating inside a tank. Because of their inflatable nature, half of each ball is always submerged in water with the only movement being horizontal. This is a reference to being alive, filing our lungs with air, moving horizontally from the womb to the eternal.
Finally, the face of the Pink Panther appears on the bright pink diptych, caught in the embrace of a glamorous, smiling woman. Taken from KOONS’ Banality series (first released in 1988), the artwork speaks to the guilt and shame of cultural consumption, using well-known imagery as a tool to represent the act of taking and giving up control.
Second Collaboration with Jeff KOONS
The drop marks our second collaboration with Jeff KOONS. Previous sold out editions depict the famous BALLOON VENUS statue, taken from the artist’s Antiquity series; as well as the well-known imagery of POPEYE, featuring the comic book sailor eating spinach from a can - a reference to finding self-acceptance, transcendence and one’s own power.
The Art of Social Change
As with all THE SKATEROOM collections, 10% of sales will go towards aiding social skate projects and ICMEC (International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children). Together with Jeff KOONS we seek to empower the youth through skateboarding, community building and skill development.
New Shelton Wet/Dry Doubledecker Skateboard
$450.00
31x8in (80x20cm)
Made of 7 ply Grade A Canadian Maple wood
Limited edition of 200
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New Shelton Wet/Dry Doubledecker belongs to The New series, where Koons presented various cleaning appliances in pristine Plexiglas cases illuminated by cool white fluorescent lights, giving a glow that displayed a sense of newness and immortality. Drawn to the anthropomorphic features of the Wet/Dry, Koons was interested in the idea of breath, a symbol of life energy, and the philosophical references. The Wet/Dry logo being in dialogue with the duality of Kierkegaard’s Either/Or and Sartre’s Being and Nothingness. The New Shelton Wet/Dry Doubledecker Skateboard depicts a close-up image of the sculpture, which belongs in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. JK Silver Series, Wilson Supershot) Skateboard
$950.00
31x8in (80x20cm)
Made of 7 ply Grade A Canadian Maple wood
Limited edition of 200
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Jeff Koons focuses on three basketballs hovering in equilibrium in his Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Spalding Dr. JK Silver Series, Wilson Supershot) Skateboard. In his Equilibrium series, Koons received guidance from Nobel laureate physicist Dr. Richard P. Feynman, as Koons strived to achieve permanent equilibrium by suspending basketballs inside water tanks. Presented as a triptych, we see exactly half of each ball submerged below the water and half on top, miraculously floating. However, the balls will remain 50% submerged below the water line but due to vibrations, the balls will move to the left or rights of the tanks. The balls are a philosophical reference to existentialism from the womb to the eternal.
© Jeff Koons
Pink Panther Skateboard
$750.00
31x8in (80x20cm)
Made of 7 ply Grade A Canadian Maple wood
Limited edition of 200
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Pink Panther belongs to the Banality series, which was first presented in 1988. The artworks in Banality were a metaphor for the viewer’s cultural guilt and shame. Koons was communicating that through self-acceptance one can be empowered. The porcelain sculpture represents a voluptuous pin-up woman embracing the Pink Panther. The work explores taste, desire, and the abundance of references within our cultural history. The Pink Panther Skateboard diptych includes both facial expressions of Pink Panther and the woman in their sensual embrace; it's about control and giving up control.
© Jeff Koons
BERNARDAUD
Born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania, Jeff Koons is without question one of the most important living artists. Since his emergence in the 1980s Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop and Conceptual art with popular culture to create his own unique iconography, at times controversial and always engaging. Often working with everyday objects, his work revolves around themes of self-acceptance and transcendence. Koons' works are exhibited throughout the world and are found in numerous public and private collections. Koons lives and works in New York City.
Diamond (Blue)
$18,000
Porcelain edition. 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches
Limited edition of 499
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Diamond (Blue) is a limited edition by Jeff Koons that transforms the monumental Celebration sculpture into Limoges porcelain fabricated within the workshops of Bernardaud. Diamond is part of Koons’ iconic Celebration series, conceived in 1994, that consists of sixteen paintings and twenty large-scale sculptures. The original 7-foot-long Diamond (1994-2005) was created in five unique colors (green, pink, blue, yellow, and red) in mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating.
The Celebration series was inspired by significant moments within the calendar year such as the celebration of an anniversary as captured in Diamond. There is a romantic aspect to the work but, for the artist, there is also a biological narrative. In Koons’ own words: “It’s not about bling; but it’s about the moment of creation. The posts on the sides of the diamond represent male energy, and the diamond is an egg. One symbol of male energy, sperm, already entered the egg and all the facets of life are unfolding. If you go back to the furthest point here at the back, that is as far back as we could go in human history. That represents the truest narrative we have of human history, which are our genes and our DNA. I wanted to start to make works that dealt with more of an inward connectivity. The way our genes and DNA are interconnected, like a double helix, our cultural lives are interconnected.”
The reflective surface of Diamond is a reoccurring element within Koons’ œuvre that spans over four decades beginning with the readymade mirrors in the Inflatable series from the late 1970s. Through highly reflective surfaces, Koons’ artworks interact with their environment but also the viewer continuing to change and evolve in each unique setting.
For 160 years, Bernardaud has worked with the most skilled artisans at their workshop in Limoges and has created new technologies to achieve the porcelain works made in collaboration with Jeff Koons. No detail was compromised in rendering the diamond in porcelain. Bernardaud was challenged with the reflective surface, finessing the glaze techniques and refining the surface to create as smooth a surface as possible made for a porcelain finish. Koons’ archetypal Diamond (Blue) is complex and profound.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Diamond (Red)
$18,000
Porcelain edition. 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches
Limited edition of 599 (Sold Out)
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Diamond (Red) is a limited edition by Jeff Koons that transforms the monumental Celebration sculpture into Limoges porcelain fabricated within the workshops of Bernardaud. Diamond is part of Koons’ iconic Celebration series, conceived in 1994, that consists of sixteen paintings and twenty large-scale sculptures. The original 7-foot-long Diamond (1994-2005) was created in five unique colors (green, pink, blue, yellow, and red) in mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating.
The Celebration series was inspired by significant moments within the calendar year such as the celebration of an anniversary as captured in Diamond. There is a romantic aspect to the work but, for the artist, there is also a biological narrative. In Koons’ own words: “It’s not about bling; but it’s about the moment of creation. The posts on the sides of the diamond represent male energy, and the diamond is an egg. One symbol of male energy, sperm, already entered the egg and all the facets of life are unfolding. If you go back to the furthest point here at the back, that is as far back as we could go in human history. That represents the truest narrative we have of human history, which are our genes and our DNA. I wanted to start to make works that dealt with more of an inward connectivity. The way our genes and DNA are interconnected, like a double helix, our cultural lives are interconnected.”
The reflective surface of Diamond is a reoccurring element within Koons’ œuvre that spans over four decades beginning with the readymade mirrors in the Inflatable series from the late 1970s. Through highly reflective surfaces, Koons’ artworks interact with their environment but also the viewer continuing to change and evolve in each unique setting.
For over 150 years, Bernardaud has worked with the most skilled artisans at their workshop in Limoges and has created new technologies to achieve the porcelain works made in collaboration with Jeff Koons. No detail was compromised in rendering the diamond in porcelain. Bernardaud was challenged with the reflective surface, finessing the glaze techniques and refining the surface to create as smooth a surface as possible made for a porcelain finish. Koons’ archetypal Diamond (Red) is complex and profound.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Balloon Dog (Blue)
$42,000
Porcelain edition. H. 153/4 x L.187/8 x D.63/16 inches
Limited edition of 799
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Balloon Dog (Blue) by Jeff Koons, from the highly acclaimed Celebration series, is one of the most iconic works of the 20th century. In 1994, Jeff Koons embarked on the Celebration series, which is based on special events from the calendar year (birthdays, weddings, holidays…), which the artist isolates from their normal context and expands in order to create contemporary archetypes.
The porcelain edition references the ten-foot-tall stainless-steel sculpture, Balloon Dog (1994-2000), which recreates a balloon, twisted into the shape of a dog, in painstaking detail on a monumental scale. The inflatable balloon evokes childhood memories and innocent playfulness; Koons takes an object that represents the fleeting pleasures of life and renders it permanent. Along with the innocence and simplicity of childhood, Koons’s work conveys a deeper symbolic meaning, as the artist explains, “It’s a very optimistic piece, it’s like a balloon that a clown would twist for you at a birthday party; but at the same time, it’s also a Trojan horse, the work has an interior life. It ties us to the present moment while at the same time to our ancient past. The exterior is totally reflective. It always reflects its environment, affirming the viewer. When you move the abstraction happens; nothing happens without you; it’s all about you. When you leave the room, the art leaves the room with you.”For nearly 160 years, Bernardaud has worked with the most skilled artisans at their workshop in Limoges and has created new technologies to achieve the porcelain limited editions made in collaboration with Jeff Koons. No detail was compromised in rendering Balloon Dog in porcelain. Bernardaud was challenged by the reflective surface, finessing the glaze techniques, and refining the process to create as smooth a finish as possible in porcelain.
Copyright : Jeff Koons
Balloon Rabbit (Violet)
$14,500
Porcelain edition. 11 1/12 x 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Limited edition of 999
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Inspired by a twisted rubber balloon rabbit, Koons’ Balloon Rabbit (Violet) is a highly reflective violet porcelain limited edition. The original Balloon Rabbit, 2005–2010, a three-ton sculpture, standing over four meters high was made from mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating in five unique versions: blue, magenta, violet, red and yellow.
Why a rabbit? Koons replied: “It comes from my upbringing, I grew up in south-central Pennsylvania, in a rural community, and at special times of the year, people would put things out in their front yard for decoration like reindeer at Christmas time. In the spring, around Easter time, there would be inflatable rabbits.
I was always very struck by the generosity of the neighbours in doing that, giving pleasure to other people in that way. One of the things that I’m most proud of is making work that lets viewers not feel intimidated by art, but feel that they can emotionally participate in it through their senses and their intellect and be fully engaged”. The rabbit is featured prominently in Koons’ oeuvre, first appearing in his 1979 work Inflatable Flower and Bunny (Tall White, Pink Bunny) and then in his stainless-steel Rabbit, 1986, which marked the first time Koons’ portrayed the subject matter with a highly reflective surface. Through Koons’ mirror-like surfaces the viewer becomes an essential part of the artwork and undergoes an affirmation of self.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Balloon Swan (Magenta)
$14,500
Porcelain edition. 9 1/2 x 6 7/16 x 8 1/4 inches
Limited edition of 999
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Jeff Koons transforms a simple twisted balloon swan into a reflective magenta porcelain for his limited edition, Balloon Swan (Magenta). The original Balloon Swan, 2004–2011, is a monumental sculpture, standing over 3 meters high, in mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating in five unique versions: magenta, red, violet, blue, and yellow.
The figure of the swan has significant personal resonance for the artist; it was one of the first sculptures Koons made at 9 years old in ceramic, for which the young artist diligently worked on to get the angle of the neck correct. For Balloon Swan, he worked for over a year and a half shaping its graceful neck.
Through research, modeling, milling, polishing, and lacquering, the swan was elevated to its final monumental form. His perseverance resulted in a work that alludes to the playfulness of childhood while its simplified, reflective surface also communicates desire and acceptance.
Koons had an epiphany when he first saw the swan’s two-dimensional form on the computer: “Balloon Swan harmonizes sexual energy. If you look at it from the front, it’s totem-like and male. If you go to the side it becomes female. Balloon Swan is reminiscent of classical works, it defines beauty as sexual harmony.”
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Balloon Rabbit (Red)
Porcelain edition. 11 1/12 x 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Limited edition of 999 (Sold Out)
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Inspired by a twisted rubber balloon rabbit, Koons’ Balloon Rabbit (Red) is a highly reflective red porcelain limited edition. The original Balloon Rabbit, 2005–2010, a three-ton sculpture, standing over four meters high was made from mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating in five unique versions: blue, magenta, violet, red and yellow.
Why a rabbit? Koons replied: “It comes from my upbringing, I grew up in south-central Pennsylvania, in a rural community, and at special times of the year, people would put things out in their front yard for decoration like reindeer at Christmas time. In the spring, around Easter time, there would be inflatable rabbits.
I was always very struck by the generosity of the neighbours in doing that, giving pleasure to other people in that way. One of the things that I’m most proud of is making work that lets viewers not feel intimidated by art, but feel that they can emotionally participate in it through their senses and their intellect and be fully engaged”. The rabbit is featured prominently in Koons’ oeuvre, first appearing in his 1979 work Inflatable Flower and Bunny (Tall White, Pink Bunny) and then in his stainless-steel Rabbit, 1986, which marked the first time Koons’ portrayed the subject matter with a highly reflective surface. Through Koons’ mirror-like surfaces the viewer becomes an essential part of the artwork and undergoes an affirmation of self.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Balloon Monkey (Orange)
$14,500
Porcelain edition. 9 13/16 x 8 1/4 x 15 7/16 inches
Limited edition of 999
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Balloon Monkey (Orange), by Koons, is based on a balloon that is twisted into the shape of a monkey. Seven years in the making, the original Balloon Monkey, 2006–2013, is 12 ½ feet long and weighs nearly five tons. The monumental sculpture is made from mirror-polished stainless steel finished with transparent color coating in five unique versions: blue, magenta, orange, red and yellow.
Jeff Koons has been interested in cultural subject matter with widespread appeal throughout his career. It is, therefore, fitting that the monkey has been a recurring motif in his body of work. Among the artist’s work, his most well-known is the life-sized porcelain artwork created in 1988, Michael Jackson and Bubbles. Humankind’s close kinship with primates has captured artist’s fascination throughout history, serving as an allegorical figure for universal themes such as the pursuit of pleasure, sexuality and innocence. Balloon Monkey explores these themes, evident through the playful form juxtaposed with tumescent tail, undoubtedly a phallic reference. Koons merges these typically contradictory concepts through the reduction of the subject to its most essential form, thereby purifying otherwise conflicting sensations for the viewer to achieve the elevated state of transcendence through self-acceptance.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Balloon Dog
Set of 3 Balloon Dog (Magenta, Orange, Yellow)
Price upon request
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An elegant box combining the three Balloon Dog, one of each color, each with the same numbering. Limited Edition. Balloon Dog is an iconic work within the highly acclaimed Celebration series, which Jeff Koons began in the mid-1990s. The Celebration artworks reference certain times of year (holidays and birthdays) but also the celebration of the cycle of life. What else could suggest the cheer of children’s parties more eloquently than a colorful balloon, twisted into the instantly recognizable form of a dog. According to the artist, “It is about celebration and childhood and color and simplicity – but it’s also a Trojan horse. It’s a Trojan horse to the whole body of art work.” Balloon Dog has the profoundness of an archaic sculpture.
The monumental Balloon Dog sculptures were made from precision engineered mirror polished stainless steel and finished with a transparent coating of either blue, magenta, orange, red, or yellow. Despite its ten-foot and one ton metal, no detail was spared in the rendering of the Balloon Dog’s form. The artist’s exacting standards are one of the most captivating aspects of Koons’ art as captured in the porcelain Balloon Dog, which simulates the mirror-polished stainless steel of the monumental sculpture with its metallic finish.
This highly complex project required the skill and expertise of modelers, decorators and glazers within the workshop of the company, and new technologies were created in order to meet the artist’s requirements. Jeff Koons has chosen Bernardaud for its expertise.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Balloon Monkey (Blue)
$14,500
Porcelain edition. 9 13/16 x 8 1/4 x 15 7/16 inches
Limited edition of 999
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Balloon Monkey (Blue) by Koons, is based on a balloon that is twisted into the shape of a monkey. Seven years in the making, the original Balloon Monkey, 2006–2013, is 12 ½ feet long and weighs nearly five tons. The monumental sculpture is made from mirror-polished stainless steel finished with transparent color coating in five unique versions: blue, magenta, orange, red and yellow.
Jeff Koons has been interested in cultural subject matter with widespread appeal throughout his career. It is, therefore, fitting that the monkey has been a recurring motif in his body of work. Among the artist’s work, his most well-known is the life-sized porcelain artwork created in 1988, Michael Jackson and Bubbles. Humankind’s close kinship with primates has captured artist’s fascination throughout history, serving as an allegorical figure for universal themes such as the pursuit of pleasure, sexuality and innocence. Balloon Monkey explores these themes, evident through the playful form juxtaposed with tumescent tail, undoubtedly a phallic reference. Koons merges these typically contradictory concepts through the reduction of the subject to its most essential form, thereby purifying otherwise conflicting sensations for the viewer to achieve the elevated state of transcendence through self-acceptance.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Balloon Swan (Yellow)
$14,500
Porcelain edition. 9 1/2 x 6 7/16 x 8 1/4 inches
Limited edition of 999
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Jeff Koons transforms a simple twisted balloon swan into a reflective yellow porcelain for his limited edition, Balloon Swan (Yellow). The original Balloon Swan, 2004–2011, is a monumental sculpture, standing over 3 meters high, in mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating in five unique versions: magenta, red, violet, blue, and yellow.
The figure of the swan has significant personal resonance for the artist; it was one of the first sculptures Koons made at 9 years old in ceramic, for which the young artist diligently worked on to get the angle of the neck correct. For Balloon Swan, he worked for over a year and a half shaping its graceful neck.
Through research, modeling, milling, polishing, and lacquering, the swan was elevated to its final monumental form. His perseverance resulted in a work that alludes to the playfulness of childhood while its simplified, reflective surface also communicates desire and acceptance.
Koons had an epiphany when he first saw the swan’s two-dimensional form on the computer: “Balloon Swan harmonizes sexual energy. If you look at it from the front, it’s totem-like and male. If you go to the side, it becomes female. Balloon Swan is reminiscent of classical works, it defines beauty as sexual harmony.”
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Coupes
$6,455
Set of 6 assorted coupe plates 12.2"
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N/a
Ballerinas
$978
Coupe service plate 12.2"
Limited edition of 2,500
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The Ballerinas coupe service plate designed by Jeff Koons, features an image of his sculpture Ballerinas (2010–14) from the iconic Antiquity series. Inspired by a small porcelain figurine of two dancers, the artist transformed the ready-made into a monumental sculpture that stands over eight-feet tall. The artwork communicates beauty, hope, and a sense of affirmation while the reflective surface with its subtle color gradations deal with time and metaphysics.
Tulips
$978
Coupe service plate 12.2"
Limited edition of 2,500
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Tulips is part of the highly acclaimed Celebration series, which relates to the cyclical year (birthdays, holidays, seasons, etc.) and a more general celebration of the cycle of life and values like innocence, pleasure and suspension of judgment.
This image references Tulips, 1995-1998, a large-scale oil painting of a bouquet of balloon tulips against a reflective background, which was made of millions of shapes of color with hard edges and unleashes a kaleidoscopic cascade of color. Tulips celebrates fertility, Spring, beauty, and romance. Koons wanted his Celebration series to be as objective as possible, so that everyone sees the same thing and shares a universal experience.
“It is about a calendar year and how we may perceive different things within the course of a year. You can look at the Tulips painting or theTulips sculpture and maybe it will make you think of Spring. I have always enjoyed flowers. Since taking art lessons as a child, I have had flowers in my work. I always like the sense that a flower just displays itself. The viewer always finds grace in a flower. Flowers are a symbol that life goes forward.” Jeff Koons
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Elephant
$978
Coupe service plate 12.2"
Limited Edition of 2,500
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An inflatable elephant was one of the first inflatables Jeff Koons worked with when he first moved to New York as a young artist in the late Seventies. In 2003, Koons referenced the inflatable in his sculpture, Elephant, that is depicted on this limited edition Bernardaud plate.
Initially chosen by Koons for its visual intensity, Elephant is a mirror-polished stainless-steel sculpture with stencils of colors broken down to look like the original inflatable toy and applied in transparent color. Elephant comes after the Koon’s Celebration series but also incorporates aspects of the iconic Rabbit from the Statuary series in 1986.
The elephant is a common motif in the work of Jeff Koons. From its first appearance as an inflatable toy in his studio, the elephant form reoccurs in various forms in works such as a large-scale stainless-steel sculpture within the Celebration series, a brightly colored Easyfun animal mirror, and imagery within the painting, Elephants, in the Easyfun-Ethereal series.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Play-Doh
$978
Coupe service plate 12.2"
Limited edition of 2,500
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Play-Doh is part of the highly acclaimed Celebration series which relates to the cyclical year (birthdays, holidays, seasons, etc.) and a more general celebration of the cycle of life and values like innocence, pleasure, and suspension of judgment. The image references, Play-Doh (1995-2008), a large-scale oil painting depicting a mound of Play-Doh against a reflective Mylar background, refracting the shapes and colors, creating a limitless spectrum of colors and textures. Koons wanted the Celebration paintings to be as objective as possible, a universal experience where everyone would see the same thing.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Lips
$978
Coupe service plate 12.2"
Limited edition of 2,500
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Lips is a large-scale painting from Jeff Koons’s series Easyfun-Ethereal featuring lush food and fashion imagery floating against a pastoral background. The lustrous, lipstick covered lips, locks of hair, corn kernels, and fruit slices, and peach colored liquid are computer-scanned reproductions taken from magazine advertising and the artist’s personal photographs, combining familiar yet sometimes unrelated images to create a surreal layered painting rendered with photo-realist perfection. Koons compresses his imagery into the foreground of his works, treating his subjects as purposefully flat, opaque images that seem to deny any specific social critique or psychological implications. Instead, his imagery, which is drawn from pop culture to art historical references, emphasizes acceptance and celebrates the sensuality and amazement that can be wrought from all of life’s visual experiences.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Split-Rocker
$978
Coupe service plate 12.2"
Limited Edition of 2,500
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American artist Jeff Koons paired with Bernardaud to translate his iconic floral sculpture, Split-Rocker, into porcelain limited editions. Jeff Koons and Bernardaud both share a history of creating porcelain objects with exquisite surface detail using traditional skills and techniques in the fabrication of porcelain.
This close collaboration has led to the creation of a work by Jeff Koons: a coupe porcelain plate titled Split-Rocker in a limited edition of 2,500 copies.
Created in 2000, the floral sculpture Split-Rocker is a highly complex architectural structure covered with a million brightly colored flowers. The bicephalous piece, inspired by a rocking toy for children is divided in two parts: the “Dino” section (the head of the dinosaur) and the rocking horse section (the head of a pony). Split Rocker is a monumental sculpture by the artist that measures 446 7/8 in height x 483 1/16 in width x 427 9/16 inches in depth with a total surface area of 1043 square feet.
The sculpture was shown in 2000 for the first time in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes (The Palace of the Popes) in Avignon and again in 2008 at the Chateau de Versailles. In 2012, it delighted visitors in the park at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Split-Rocker
$7,016
Split-rocker vase H.13.7"
Limited edition of 3,500
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American artist Jeff Koons paired with Bernardaud to translate his iconic floral sculpture, Split-Rocker, into porcelain limited editions. Jeff Koons and Bernardaud both share a history of creating porcelain objects with exquisite surface detail using traditional skills and techniques in the fabrication of porcelain. This close collaboration has led to the creation of a work by Jeff Koons: a bisque porcelain vase titled Split-Rocker in a limited edition of 3,500 copies.
Created in 2000, the floral sculpture Split-Rocker is a highly complex architectural structure covered with a million brightly colored flowers. The bicephalous piece, inspired by a rocking toy for children is divided in two parts: the “Dino” section (the head of the dinosaur) and the rocking horse section (the head of a pony). Split Rocker is a monumental sculpture by the artist that measures 446 7/8 in height x 483 1/16 in width x 427 9/16 inches in depth with a total surface area of 1043 square feet.
The sculpture was shown in 2000 for the first time in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes (The Palace of the Popes) in Avignon and again in 2008 at the Chateau de Versailles. In 2012, it delighted visitors in the park at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Balloon Dog (Orange)
$9,000
Limited edition of 2,300
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Balloon Dog is an iconic work within the highly acclaimed Celebration series, which Jeff Koons began in the mid-1990s. The Celebration artworks reference certain times of year (holidays and birthdays) but also the celebration of the cycle of life. What else could suggest the cheer of children’s parties more eloquently than a colorful balloon, twisted into the instantly recognizable form of a dog. According to the artist, “It is about celebration and childhood and color and simplicity – but it’s also a Trojan horse. It’s a Trojan horse to the whole body of art work.” Balloon Dog has the profoundness of an archaic sculpture.
The monumental Balloon Dog sculptures were made from precision engineered mirror polished stainless steel and finished with a transparent coating of either blue, magenta, orange, red, or yellow. Despite its ten-foot and one ton metal, no detail was spared in the rendering of the Balloon Dog’s form. The artist’s exacting standards are one of the most captivating aspects of Koons’ art as captured in the porcelain Balloon Dog (Orange), which simulates the mirror-polished stainless steel of the monumental sculpture with its metallic orange finish.
This highly complex project required the skill and expertise of modelers, decorators and glazers within the workshop of the company, and new technologies were created in order to meet the artist’s requirements. Jeff Koons has chosen Bernardaud for its expertise.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Balloon Dog (Yellow)
This limited edition of 2,300 is now sold out. The last remaining pieces for individual purchase are available only at MOCA.
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Balloon Dog is an iconic work within the highly acclaimed Celebration series, which Jeff Koons began in the mid-1990s. The Celebration artworks reference certain times of year (holidays and birthdays) but also the celebration of the cycle of life. What else could suggest the cheer of children’s parties more eloquently than a colorful balloon, twisted into the instantly recognizable form of a dog. According to the artist, “It is about celebration and childhood and color and simplicity – but it’s also a Trojan horse. It’s a Trojan horse to the whole body of art work.” Balloon Dog has the profoundness of an archaic sculpture.
The monumental Balloon Dog sculptures were made from precision engineered mirror polished stainless steel and finished with a transparent coating of either blue, magenta, orange, red, or yellow. Despite its ten-foot and one ton metal, no detail was spared in the rendering of the Balloon Dog’s form. The artist’s exacting standards are one of the most captivating aspects of Koons’ art as captured in the porcelain Balloon Dog (Yellow), which simulates the mirror-polished stainless steel of the monumental sculpture with its metallic yellow finish.
This highly complex project required the skill and expertise of modelers, decorators and glazers within the workshop of the company, and new technologies were created in order to meet the artist’s requirements. Jeff Koons has chosen Bernardaud for its expertise.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Balloon Dog (Magenta)
This limited edition of 2,300 is now sold out. The last remaining pieces for individual purchase are available only at MOCA.
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This limited edition of 2,300 is now sold out. The last remaining pieces for individual purchase are available only at MOCA.
Limited Edition to 2300.Balloon Dog is an iconic work within the highly acclaimed Celebration series, which Jeff Koons began in the mid-1990s. The Celebration artworks reference certain times of year (holidays and birthdays) but also the celebration of the cycle of life. What else could suggest the cheer of children’s parties more eloquently than a colorful balloon, twisted into the instantly recognizable form of a dog. According to the artist, “It is about celebration and childhood and color and simplicity – but it’s also a Trojan horse. It’s a Trojan horse to the whole body of art work.” Balloon Dog has the profoundness of an archaic sculpture.
The monumental Balloon Dog sculptures were made from precision engineered mirror polished stainless steel and finished with a transparent coating of either blue, magenta, orange, red, or yellow. Despite its ten-foot and one ton metal, no detail was spared in the rendering of the Balloon Dog’s form. The artist’s exacting standards are one of the most captivating aspects of Koons’ art as captured in the porcelain Balloon Dog (Magenta), which simulates the mirror-polished stainless steel of the monumental sculpture with its metallic magenta finish.
This highly complex project required the skill and expertise of modelers, decorators and glazers within the workshop of the company, and new technologies were created in order to meet the artist’s requirements. Jeff Koons has chosen Bernardaud for its expertise.
Copyright: Jeff Koons
Banality Series
$228
Gift box set of 1 service plate 11.6"
Limited edition of 4,500
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N/a
Banality Series
$1,644
Gift box set of 6 assorted dinner plates 10.6" and 6 salad plates 8.3"
Limited edition of 4,500
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N/a
Banality Series
$558
Gift box set of 6 assorted bread and butter plates 6.3"
Limited edition of 4,500
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N/a
Banality Series
$873
Gift box set of 6 coupe soup plates 7.5"
Limited edition of 4,500
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N/a
Banality Series
$558
Oval platter 15"
Limited edition of 4,500
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N/a
Banality Series
$1,230
Gift box set of 6 tea cups 3 oz and saucers
Limited edition of 4,500
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N/a
Banality Series
$1,174
Gift box set of 6 espresso cups 3 oz and saucers
Limited edition of 4,500
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N/a