Balloon Dog (Red), 1995

Cast porcelain sculpture coated with a reflective finish
10 1/4 X 10 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches
Edition of 2300
Stamped "Jeff Koons" in red on the reverse
Hand numbered in felt-tip pen on the reverse
Produced by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Pristine condition, in the original publisher's box

Exhibited
New Dog Old Tricks, Ngununggula Regional Art Gallery, Bowral, New South Wales, November 18 - February 4, 2024
POP Power from Warhol to Koons, Masterworks from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, September 14, 2019 - March 9, 2020
Let’s Play: Art of Our Time, Bunjil Place, City of Casey, Australia, December 15, 2017 - February 25, 2018
No Longer Art: Salvage Art Institute, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, New York, November 14 - December 20, 2012
A Secret History of Clay from Gauguin to Gormley, Tate Liverpool, May 28 - August 30, 2004

Literature
Lien Kaspari, “Promis stellen ihre Werke auf Sylt aus," Bild (Germany), June 27, 2020, (color ill. online)
Nate Freeman, “5 Essential Tips for Collecting Prints," Artsy, August 17, 2018, (color ill. online)
Eileen Kinsella, "Looking to Lure New Buyers, Looking to Lure New Buyers, Christie’s Tried a Sale of Art Starting at Just $100. It Paid Off Big Time,” Artnet News, February 5, 2020, (color ill. online)
“Montclair Art Museum Presents "Uncaged: Animals in The Collection," New Jersey Stage, December 15, 2019, (color ill. online)
Jeffrey Weiss, "Things Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art", Artforum 51, no. 7, March 2013, pp. 220-229 (color ill.)
Artist Builders 25 years of MOCA, (Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004), p. 92 (color ill.)
A Secret History of Clay: From Gaugin to Gormley, exh. cat., ed. Simon Groom, (London: Tate, 2004), p. 102
Christine Temin, "A blur of life and art with Jeff Koons at MFA," Boston Globe, July 24, 2002, pp. F1, F8 (color ill. p. F8)

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Balloon Dog is a very optimistic piece, it's a balloon that a clown might twist for you at a birthday party. But at the same time there's the profoundness of an archaic sculpture. The piece has an interior life while the reflective exterior surface affirms the viewer through their reflection. The porcelain only accentuates the sexuality of the piece.

JEFF KOONS BALLOON DOG

Jeff Koons' Red Balloon Dog is considered the supreme example from the highly acclaimed Celebration series of paintings and sculptures that Koons began in the early 1990s. The series evolved from his desire to recreate the ecstatic experiences of a child's enjoyment of the world through universal signifiers representing birthday parties and festive events. It is one of five Balloon Dog sculptures made from precision engineered, mirror-polished porcelain and finished with a translucent coating of either blue, magenta, orange, red, or yellow. Balloon Dog radiantly beautiful color and pristine finish embodies a contemporary vision of fin-de-siécle opulence. With its giant swollen body and highly reflective surface, porcelain balloon animal conveys a miraculous illusion of weightlessness.

When the Celebration works eventually started to be shown in museums around the world in 2000, Koons' reputation as one of the world's greatest sculptors was immediately renewed and deepened. Over the years, he has explored a whole gamut of sculptural materials, including readymade objects, bronze, porcelain, wood, stainless steel, Murano glassand even live flowers. It is these three-dimensional forms that find the most enthusiasm as their tangible qualities posses an ability to engage sensual experience in a way that is almost impossible in any other medium.

The Jeff Koons red Balloon Dog limited edition multiple sculpture that Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd., has for sale is in pristine condition, contained in the original white box, as originally published in 1995.

Each Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculpture is accompanied with the original plastic standand most importantly, the sculpture has never been displayed and/or handled like many Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculptures bought and sold on the secondary market.

That means the Jeff Koons Balloon Dog sculpture purchased from Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd., is without the usual fingerprints; scuffs; nicks and missing pieces/chips often seen on the majority of Jeff Koons Balloon Dog sculptures offered at public auction or on eBay for so called "bargain" prices. Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd., also has the desirable Jeff Koons red & blue Balloon Dog sculpture set of two, each in pristine conditionand contained in the original publisher's packing.

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Red Balloon Dog

Balloon Dog (Red), 1995

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JEFF KOONS BALLOON DOG

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