Jeff Koons
Printmaking, Visual Artist
1955 –
Who is Jeff Koons?
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania.
His works have sold for substantial sums of money, including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. On November 12, 2013, Koons’s Balloon Dog sold at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York for $58.4 million, above its high $55 million estimate, becoming the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction. The price topped Koons’s previous record of $33.7 million and the record for the most expensive living artist, held by Gerhard Richter, whose 1968 painting, Domplatz, Mailand, sold for $37.1 million at Sotheby’s in May. Balloon Dog was one of the first of the Balloon Dogs to be fabricated, and had been acquired by Greenwich collector Peter Brant in the late 1990s.
Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance. Others dismiss his work as kitsch: crass and based on cynical self-merchandising.
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- Born
- Jan 21, 1955
York - Also known as
- Jeffrey Koons
- Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons
- Jeff Koonz
- Spouses
- Ilona Staller
(1991/06/01 - 1998) - Justine Wheeler Koons
- Ilona Staller
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Maryland Institute College of Art
- Lived in
- York
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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