Sale Price:
HKD 65,000.00
Original Price:
HKD 112,000.00
Jeff Koons Red Balloon Rabbit, Circa 2017.
Limited Edition. 1 of 999 pcs.
Signed and numbered with certificate of authenticity.
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.
Designers: Jeff Koons.
Producer: Bernardaud.
Manufactured: Limoges, France.
Design Year: 2004.
Production Year: 2017.
Type: Art Collectables.
About Jeff Koons.
Best known for his larger-than-life sculptures of balloon animals, Jeff Koons is an art world behemoth capable of exciting the media and drawing on celebrity contacts like no other living artist. His unprecedented rise since the mid-1980s has coincided with a huge upsurge in demand for art as a consumer commodity. Some critics have labeled his more garish works as Neo-kitsch and several of his pieces have overtly sexual themes. Whatever the categorization, his work has always stretched the boundaries of what could be called “art” and in so doing has sensationally explored our relationship to contemporary life.
Rejecting any meaning in his work and viewing irony as a distraction from the art itself, Jeff Koons wants his work to be perceived in the immediacy of the initial glance. Born in Pennsylvania in 1955, Jeff Koons finished art school and started working at the membership desk of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He first achieved critical success with Rabbit (1986) a 41-inch steel sculpture of an inflatable rabbit. This move toward consumerist decadence precipitated sudden and astonishing attention on the artist.
The artist enjoyed a retrospective in 2014 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He has exhibited his work in all major art capitals around the world and featured in two Venice Biennales in 1990 and 1997. Jeff Koons also holds the record for the most expensive work ever sold at auction by a living artist—Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994-2000 sold in 2013 for an extraordinary $58.4 million at Christie’s.
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Jeff Koons Red Balloon Rabbit, Circa 2017.
Limited Edition. 1 of 999 pcs.
Signed and numbered with certificate of authenticity.
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.
Designers: Jeff Koons.
Producer: Bernardaud.
Manufactured: Limoges, France.
Design Year: 2004.
Production Year: 2017.
Type: Art Collectables.
About Jeff Koons.
Best known for his larger-than-life sculptures of balloon animals, Jeff Koons is an art world behemoth capable of exciting the media and drawing on celebrity contacts like no other living artist. His unprecedented rise since the mid-1980s has coincided with a huge upsurge in demand for art as a consumer commodity. Some critics have labeled his more garish works as Neo-kitsch and several of his pieces have overtly sexual themes. Whatever the categorization, his work has always stretched the boundaries of what could be called “art” and in so doing has sensationally explored our relationship to contemporary life.
Rejecting any meaning in his work and viewing irony as a distraction from the art itself, Jeff Koons wants his work to be perceived in the immediacy of the initial glance. Born in Pennsylvania in 1955, Jeff Koons finished art school and started working at the membership desk of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He first achieved critical success with Rabbit (1986) a 41-inch steel sculpture of an inflatable rabbit. This move toward consumerist decadence precipitated sudden and astonishing attention on the artist.
The artist enjoyed a retrospective in 2014 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He has exhibited his work in all major art capitals around the world and featured in two Venice Biennales in 1990 and 1997. Jeff Koons also holds the record for the most expensive work ever sold at auction by a living artist—Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994-2000 sold in 2013 for an extraordinary $58.4 million at Christie’s.
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Delivery:
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