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THBLot of (4) Books on Jeff Koons (Born 1955)
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJan 18, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 1 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of fine art from mixed medias and abstracts to landscapes and lithographs. We have a Todd Warner Rhino Sculpture, a collection of art glass sculptures, modern furniture, Lalique, Kosta Boda, Parkwest Gallery artworks, and Coca-Cola collectibles. Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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Lot of (4) Books on Jeff Koons (Born 1955). Includes "Pictures: Jeff Koons 1980-2002," a book from Gagosian Gallery of a Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol exhibition called "Flowers," and a two-volume set in one protective sleeve called "Jeff Koons: The Sculptor" and "Jeff Koons: The Painter." All hardcover, with many photographs and informative literature throughout.
Largest Size: 9 3/4 x 12 x 1 1/2 in.
#8625 .
Jeffrey Lynn Koons was born on January 21st, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. His father was a furniture dealer and interior decorator, and by the time Koons was nine years old the Old Master paintings he would copy were placed in the windows of his father’s shop. He studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore before transferring to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied from 1975 to 1976. While there he met the artist Ed Paschke, who became a major influence and for whom Koons worked as a studio assistant in the late 1970s. After college Koons moved to New York in 1977 and worked at the membership desk of the Museum of Modern Art while establishing himself as an artist. During this time he dyed his hair red and often wore a pencil mustache in homage to Salvador Dalí, his favorite artist. In 1978 his fascination with luxury items as well as ready-to-use equipment led him to develop his Inflatables series, consisting of inflatable flowers and a rabbit of various heights and colors, positioned along with mirrors. In 1980, needing to make ends meet, he became licensed to sell mutual funds and stocks and began working as a Wall Street commodities broker at First Investors Corporation. After a summer with his parents in Sarasota, Florida where he briefly worked as a political canvasser, Koons returned to New York to work for Clayton Brokerage Company and then at Smith Barney. Throughout his business career he continued to explore painting and sculpture, and rose to prominence after establishing a factory-like studio loft on the corner of Houston Street and Broadway. It was staffed with over 30 assistants, each assigned to a different aspect of producing his work, adopting the Warhol model. His inspirations and choices were more and more influenced by themes of consumerist behavior, seduction, banality, and the innocence of childhood. In 1983 he created artwork through research conducted with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, and in 1986 he introduced the Statuary Series, featuring ten pieces reimagining his earlier Inflatables. His most iconic pieces, Balloon Dog and Rabbit, went on to set records in the 2010s as the two highest auction sales for a living artist at $58.4 million and $91.1 million, respectively. In 1991 he married the Italian porn star Ilona Staller (Cicciolina), who at the time was a member of the Italian Parliament, and in 1992 they had a son, Ludwig. The marriage collapsed the following year, and in 1996 he married Justine Wheeler, an artist at his studio with whom he eventually had four children. By the 21st Century Koons had become one of the most famous American artists in history, recognized for his impact on popular culture and modern art in relation to the depiction of everyday objects. Critics remain sharply divided in their views of Koons, seeing him both as a major pioneer and a purveyor of self-merchandising kitsch. Koons continues to make Neo-Pop art at a much smaller studio, and frequently emphasizes in interviews that there are no hidden meanings or critiques in his works, confounding easy classification in the modern artistic pantheon.
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(largest) 9 3/4 x 12 x 1 1/2 in.
