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Provenance

Feature, New York Susan and Lewis Manilow, Chicago Van de Weghe, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Chicago, Renaissance Society, New Sculpture: Gober, Koons and Steinbach , May - June 1986 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Jeff Koons , December 1992 - October 1993

Literature

Robert Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook , London 1992, p. 154, illustrated Angelika Muthesius, Jeff Koons , Barcelona 1992, p. 166 (text) Ingrid Sischy and Katy Siegel. Jeff Koons, Barcelona 2009, p.171, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown) Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective , 2014, p. 72, (text) Catalogue note “Koons manipulates objects into metaphorical embodiments of society’s dysfunctions. This poetics of objects recalls Jasper Johns’ cast-bronze beer cans, in which an ordinary object becomes endowed with a surplus of meaning, and the surrealist tactic of juxtaposing unexpected elements, as in Meret Oppenheim’s fur-covered teacup” Daniela Salvioni, ‘Jeff Koons’s Poetics of Class’, in: Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons , 1992, p. 20

Catalog summary

JEFF KOONS b. 1955 SNORKEL (GENERIC), 1985 bronze 36.8 by 12.7 by 3.2 cm. 14½ by 5 by 1¾ in. Executed in 1985, this work is number 1 from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof Please note: Condition 11 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot To view shipping calculator, please click here . Provenance Feature, New York Susan and Lewis Manilow, Chicago Van de Weghe, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited Chicago, Renaissance Society, New Sculpture: Gober, Koons and Steinbach , May - June 1986 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Jeff Koons , December 1992 - October 1993 Literature Robert Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook , London 1992, p. 154, illustrated Angelika Muthesius, Jeff Koons , Barcelona 1992, p. 166 (text) Ingrid Sischy and Katy Siegel. Jeff Koons, Barcelona 2009, p.171, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown) Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective , 2014, p. 72, (text) Catalogue note “Koons manipulates objects into metaphorical embodiments of society’s dysfunctions. This poetics of objects recalls Jasper Johns’ cast-bronze beer cans, in which an ordinary object becomes endowed with a surplus of meaning, and the surrealist tactic of juxtaposing unexpected elements, as in Meret Oppenheim’s fur-covered teacup” Daniela Salvioni, ‘Jeff Koons’s Poetics of Class’, in: Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Koons , 1992, p. 20