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Temple of Style: The Barbara Jakobson Collection
JEFF KOONS (B. 1955)
Winter Bears
Details
JEFF KOONS (B. 1955)
Winter Bears
incised with the foundry mark (lower edge of the base); incised with the artists's signature, number, date and foundry mark 'Koons 1⁄3 88' (on the underside)
polychromed wood
48 x 44 x 15 ½ in. (121.9 x 111.8 x 39.4 cm.)
Executed in 1988. This work is number one from an edition of three plus one artist's proof.
Winter Bears
incised with the foundry mark (lower edge of the base); incised with the artists's signature, number, date and foundry mark 'Koons 1⁄3 88' (on the underside)
polychromed wood
48 x 44 x 15 ½ in. (121.9 x 111.8 x 39.4 cm.)
Executed in 1988. This work is number one from an edition of three plus one artist's proof.
Provenance
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993
Literature
K. Levin, "Evil of Banality," Village Voice, 20 December 1988, p. 115.
A. Gopnik, "The Art World: Lost and Found," The New Yorker, 20 February 1989, p. 107.
S. Morgan, J. Koether, D. Salle and S. Levine, "Big Fun: Four Reactions to the New Jeff Koons," Artscribe, March/April 1989, n.p. (another example illustrated and illustrated on the front cover).
H. Hanson, "Art Works: Highbrow, High-Priced Tchotchkes," Chicago, vol. 38, no. 2, February 1989, p. 23.
D. Pinchbeck, “Jeff Koons,” Splash, April 1989, pp. 69-70 (another example illustrated).
R. Smith, "Subtle Ways to Eat Your Cake and Have It Too," The New York Times, 8 October 1989, p. H35.
P. Tschinkel, dir., Program No. 31: Jeff Koons, The Banality Work, 1989 (video; featured).
Mit Dem Fernrohr Durch Die Kunstgeschichte, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Basel, 1989, n.p., no. 50 (another example illustrated).
"Koons and the First Amendment," Flash Art, vol. 24, no. 16, November/December 1991, p. 136 (another example illustrated).
Objects for the Ideal Home: The legacy of Pop Art, exh. cat., London, Serpentine Gallery, 1991, pp. 26 and 29 (another example illustrated and illustrated on the front cover).
P. Flessig, "Kitschy, Kitschy Koons," City Limits, March 1992, p. 17.
"Love Parade," Vogue, December 1992, p. 184 (another example illustrated).
A. Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 1992, pp. 111 and 168, no. 15 (another example illustrated).
R. Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook, London, 1992, p. 160.
B. Riemschneider, ed., Jeff Koons: 30 Postcards, Cologne, 1992 (another example illustrated).
A. R. Petersen, "Kunstneren som showmaster," Kristeligt Dagblad, 3 February 1993, n.p. (another example illustrated).
L. Morell, "Jeff Koons Interview: The Political Value of Art," Skala, no. 28, June 1993, p. 40.
J. Arginteanu, "Happiness Is a Warm Puppy: Is Jeff Koons Good for More Than a Laugh?," Twin Cities Reader, 7 July 1993, p. 1.
K. Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett, no. 50⁄51, December 1997, p. 80 (another example illustrated).
Gesammelte Werke 1 Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 1999, p. 273.
R. Goetz, Jeff Koons, Schaupielhaus Programmhefte, Berlin, 1999, p. 34 (another example illustrated).
J. Koons, Intervista 4, no. 22, April-May 2000, p. 22 (another example illustrated).
Jeff Koons, Pictures 1980-2002, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2002, p. 23, fig. V (another example illustrated).
R. Goetz, Jeff Koons von Rainald Goetz, Basel, 2002, p. 30.
Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, exh. cat., Naples, Electa Napoli, 2003, p. 69 (another example illustrated).
Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannu Collection, exh. cat., Athens, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2004, pp. 231-232 (another example illustrated).
“Best of 2004: 13 Critics and Curators Look at the Year in Art,” Artforum, December 2004, p. 169 (another example illustrated).
M. O'Mahony, American Art, London, 2006, pp. 164-165 (another example illustrated).
K. Swenson, "Louise Lawler Looks Back," Art in America, December 2006, p. 119 (another example illustrated).
C. Tomkins, "The Turnaround Artist," The New Yorker, 23 April 2007, p. 64.
"Kitsch = Kunst?," Kunst Stoff, July 2008, p. 10 (another example illustrated and illustrated on the front cover).
R. Calvocoressi, "Artist Rooms," Art Quarterly, Summer 2008, p. 40 (another example illustrated).
H. W. Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 2009, pp. 260, 268-269 and 586 (another example illustrated).
"Jeff Koons: Banality, Decadence and Easyfun," Tate, London, 2009, digital (another example illustrated).
S. Reyburn, "Warhol Self Portrait, Koons Bears Boost $116 Million U.K. Art Auction Test," Bloomberg, 24 January 2011, digital (another example illustrated).
K. Crow, "London Auctions Brim with Comeback Kids," The Wall Street Journal, 5 February 2011.
G. Adam, "The Art Market / The Return of the Boomers," Financial Times, 18 February 2011.
"Jeff Koons Art Exhibition Coming to Edinburgh," Edinburgh Guide, 3 March 2011.
L. Marsova, "AO On Site - Basel - Artist talk with Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler," Art Observed, 14 June 2012.
A. Chin, "jeff koons at the beyeler foundation part 2," designboom, 29 June 2012, digital (another example illustrated).
Jeff Koons: The Painter, exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, 2012, pp. 73, no. 3 (another example illustrated).
This Will Have Been: Art Love & Politics 1980s, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2012, p. 205 (another example illustrated).
P. Sterckx, “Quand Jeff Koons euphorise l’art,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, p. 47.
A. Breucha, Die Kunst der Postproduktion: Jeff Koons in Seinen interviews, 2014, p. 68 (another example illustrated).
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2014, pp. 22 and 117, fig. 17 (another example illustrated).
"Major Jeff Koons Exhibition Opens at UK's Norwich Castle This Spring," ArtfixDaily, 25 March 2015 (another example illustrated).
Artist Rooms, The First Five Years, London, 2015, pp. 108-120 (another example illustrated).
Jeff Koons: Retrospective, exh. cat., Guggenheim Bilbao and Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2015 (Bilbao, pp. 24-25; Paris, pp. 27-28).
J. Koons and G. Fuhrman, In Conversation: Jeff Koons and Glenn Fuhrman, 12 May 2016 (video; featured).
A. McDonald, ed., "Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons and Charles Ray," Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2016, n.p. (another example illustrated).
W. Goodman, “A New Book Takes You Inside the Homes of New York’s Most Eclectic Personalities,” Curbed, 7 September 2017, digital (illustrated).
P. Devlin, New York: Behind Closed Doors, Layton, 2017, pp. 6, 173 and 181 (illustrated in-situ).
A. Hamamtzoglou, "10 Things We Didn't Know About Jeff Koons," Monopoli, 9 January 2021, digital (another example illustrated).
D. Hopkins, DARK TOYS: Surrealism and the Culture of Childhood, New Haven, 2021, pp. 153 and 157, pl. 38 (another example illustrated).
W. Goodman, "Art Collector Barbara Jakobson's Vertical Life," New York Magazine, 24 May 2021, digital (illustrated in-situ).
A. Gopnik, "The Art World: Lost and Found," The New Yorker, 20 February 1989, p. 107.
S. Morgan, J. Koether, D. Salle and S. Levine, "Big Fun: Four Reactions to the New Jeff Koons," Artscribe, March/April 1989, n.p. (another example illustrated and illustrated on the front cover).
H. Hanson, "Art Works: Highbrow, High-Priced Tchotchkes," Chicago, vol. 38, no. 2, February 1989, p. 23.
D. Pinchbeck, “Jeff Koons,” Splash, April 1989, pp. 69-70 (another example illustrated).
R. Smith, "Subtle Ways to Eat Your Cake and Have It Too," The New York Times, 8 October 1989, p. H35.
P. Tschinkel, dir., Program No. 31: Jeff Koons, The Banality Work, 1989 (video; featured).
Mit Dem Fernrohr Durch Die Kunstgeschichte, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Basel, 1989, n.p., no. 50 (another example illustrated).
"Koons and the First Amendment," Flash Art, vol. 24, no. 16, November/December 1991, p. 136 (another example illustrated).
Objects for the Ideal Home: The legacy of Pop Art, exh. cat., London, Serpentine Gallery, 1991, pp. 26 and 29 (another example illustrated and illustrated on the front cover).
P. Flessig, "Kitschy, Kitschy Koons," City Limits, March 1992, p. 17.
"Love Parade," Vogue, December 1992, p. 184 (another example illustrated).
A. Muthesius, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 1992, pp. 111 and 168, no. 15 (another example illustrated).
R. Rosenblum, The Jeff Koons Handbook, London, 1992, p. 160.
B. Riemschneider, ed., Jeff Koons: 30 Postcards, Cologne, 1992 (another example illustrated).
A. R. Petersen, "Kunstneren som showmaster," Kristeligt Dagblad, 3 February 1993, n.p. (another example illustrated).
L. Morell, "Jeff Koons Interview: The Political Value of Art," Skala, no. 28, June 1993, p. 40.
J. Arginteanu, "Happiness Is a Warm Puppy: Is Jeff Koons Good for More Than a Laugh?," Twin Cities Reader, 7 July 1993, p. 1.
K. Seward, "Frankenstein in Paradise," Parkett, no. 50⁄51, December 1997, p. 80 (another example illustrated).
Gesammelte Werke 1 Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 1999, p. 273.
R. Goetz, Jeff Koons, Schaupielhaus Programmhefte, Berlin, 1999, p. 34 (another example illustrated).
J. Koons, Intervista 4, no. 22, April-May 2000, p. 22 (another example illustrated).
Jeff Koons, Pictures 1980-2002, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2002, p. 23, fig. V (another example illustrated).
R. Goetz, Jeff Koons von Rainald Goetz, Basel, 2002, p. 30.
Jeff Koons: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, exh. cat., Naples, Electa Napoli, 2003, p. 69 (another example illustrated).
Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannu Collection, exh. cat., Athens, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2004, pp. 231-232 (another example illustrated).
“Best of 2004: 13 Critics and Curators Look at the Year in Art,” Artforum, December 2004, p. 169 (another example illustrated).
M. O'Mahony, American Art, London, 2006, pp. 164-165 (another example illustrated).
K. Swenson, "Louise Lawler Looks Back," Art in America, December 2006, p. 119 (another example illustrated).
C. Tomkins, "The Turnaround Artist," The New Yorker, 23 April 2007, p. 64.
"Kitsch = Kunst?," Kunst Stoff, July 2008, p. 10 (another example illustrated and illustrated on the front cover).
R. Calvocoressi, "Artist Rooms," Art Quarterly, Summer 2008, p. 40 (another example illustrated).
H. W. Holzwarth, ed., Jeff Koons, Cologne, 2009, pp. 260, 268-269 and 586 (another example illustrated).
"Jeff Koons: Banality, Decadence and Easyfun," Tate, London, 2009, digital (another example illustrated).
S. Reyburn, "Warhol Self Portrait, Koons Bears Boost $116 Million U.K. Art Auction Test," Bloomberg, 24 January 2011, digital (another example illustrated).
K. Crow, "London Auctions Brim with Comeback Kids," The Wall Street Journal, 5 February 2011.
G. Adam, "The Art Market / The Return of the Boomers," Financial Times, 18 February 2011.
"Jeff Koons Art Exhibition Coming to Edinburgh," Edinburgh Guide, 3 March 2011.
L. Marsova, "AO On Site - Basel - Artist talk with Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler," Art Observed, 14 June 2012.
A. Chin, "jeff koons at the beyeler foundation part 2," designboom, 29 June 2012, digital (another example illustrated).
Jeff Koons: The Painter, exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, 2012, pp. 73, no. 3 (another example illustrated).
This Will Have Been: Art Love & Politics 1980s, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2012, p. 205 (another example illustrated).
P. Sterckx, “Quand Jeff Koons euphorise l’art,” Beaux Arts editions, December 2014, p. 47.
A. Breucha, Die Kunst der Postproduktion: Jeff Koons in Seinen interviews, 2014, p. 68 (another example illustrated).
Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2014, pp. 22 and 117, fig. 17 (another example illustrated).
"Major Jeff Koons Exhibition Opens at UK's Norwich Castle This Spring," ArtfixDaily, 25 March 2015 (another example illustrated).
Artist Rooms, The First Five Years, London, 2015, pp. 108-120 (another example illustrated).
Jeff Koons: Retrospective, exh. cat., Guggenheim Bilbao and Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2015 (Bilbao, pp. 24-25; Paris, pp. 27-28).
J. Koons and G. Fuhrman, In Conversation: Jeff Koons and Glenn Fuhrman, 12 May 2016 (video; featured).
A. McDonald, ed., "Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons and Charles Ray," Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2016, n.p. (another example illustrated).
W. Goodman, “A New Book Takes You Inside the Homes of New York’s Most Eclectic Personalities,” Curbed, 7 September 2017, digital (illustrated).
P. Devlin, New York: Behind Closed Doors, Layton, 2017, pp. 6, 173 and 181 (illustrated in-situ).
A. Hamamtzoglou, "10 Things We Didn't Know About Jeff Koons," Monopoli, 9 January 2021, digital (another example illustrated).
D. Hopkins, DARK TOYS: Surrealism and the Culture of Childhood, New Haven, 2021, pp. 153 and 157, pl. 38 (another example illustrated).
W. Goodman, "Art Collector Barbara Jakobson's Vertical Life," New York Magazine, 24 May 2021, digital (illustrated in-situ).
Exhibited
New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Banality, November-December 1988.
Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler, Banality, November 1988 (another example exhibited).
London, Serpentine Gallery, Objects for the Ideal Home: The Legacy of Pop Art, September-October 1991.
Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Vertigo, July-August 1991 (another example exhibited).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Aarhus Kunstmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Jeff Koons - Retrospektiv, November 1992-April 1993 [Amsterdam, pp. 65 and 113, no. 47 (another example exhibited and illustrated); Aarhus, pp. 99 and 105 (another example exhibited and illustrated on the back cover)].
Athens, Deste Foundation, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 1979-1999, December 1999-May 2000, pp. 20 and 46 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Cyprus, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Shortcuts from the Dakis Joannou Collection, November 2001-March 2002, pp. 62 and 76 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, C & M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, April-June 2004, pp. 22-23 and 84, pl. 2 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Childish Things, November 2010-January 2011, pp. 44, 46, 48 and 87 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland and Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, ARTIST ROOMS: Jeff Koons, March 2011-September 2013 (another example exhibited and illustrated on the cover of the exhibition supplement).
Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May-September 2012, pp. 82-85 and 204 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, FLAG Art Foundation, Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, January-May 2016 (another example exhibited).
Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler, Banality, November 1988 (another example exhibited).
London, Serpentine Gallery, Objects for the Ideal Home: The Legacy of Pop Art, September-October 1991.
Salzburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Vertigo, July-August 1991 (another example exhibited).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Aarhus Kunstmuseum and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Jeff Koons - Retrospektiv, November 1992-April 1993 [Amsterdam, pp. 65 and 113, no. 47 (another example exhibited and illustrated); Aarhus, pp. 99 and 105 (another example exhibited and illustrated on the back cover)].
Athens, Deste Foundation, Jeff Koons: A Millennium Celebration - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, 1979-1999, December 1999-May 2000, pp. 20 and 46 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Cyprus, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Shortcuts from the Dakis Joannou Collection, November 2001-March 2002, pp. 62 and 76 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, C & M Arts, Jeff Koons: Highlights of 25 Years, April-June 2004, pp. 22-23 and 84, pl. 2 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Childish Things, November 2010-January 2011, pp. 44, 46, 48 and 87 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland and Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, ARTIST ROOMS: Jeff Koons, March 2011-September 2013 (another example exhibited and illustrated on the cover of the exhibition supplement).
Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons, May-September 2012, pp. 82-85 and 204 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, FLAG Art Foundation, Cecily Brown, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, January-May 2016 (another example exhibited).
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